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LinkedIn Brings Rich Media to Profiles

Mike Isaac in Social on May 1 at 8:00 am PT

LinkedIn on Wednesday announced that it will now allow users to add video and photos to their profile pages — essentially, a way to let users create a more visual representation of an online resume. The update will begin rolling out to members of English-speaking countries on Wednesday.

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Facebook Snags Talent From Design Firm Hot Studio

Mike Isaac in Social on March 14 at 1:30 pm PT

Facebook announced Thursday it has made a talent deal, bringing in a number of designers from the San Francisco-based design firm Hot Studio. The “acqhire” brings over an undisclosed number of the team, and Facebook did not share the financial terms of the deal. “The transition will be careful and deliberate, occurring over the next few months,” Facebook said in a blog post. “When it’s finished, many of the talented individuals from Hot Studio will be embedded into our product design, communication design, research, engineering, and content strategy teams.”

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Twitter’s Latest Design Hire: Picplum Co-Founder Paul Stamatiou

Mike Isaac in News on January 14 at 11:40 am PT

Twitter announced the latest addition to its design team on Monday: Paul Stamatiou, co-founder of the photo-sharing service PicPlum. As an intern for Yahoo in 2006, Stamatiou worked on developing the company’s “Yodel Anecdotal” corporate blog. He worked on Picplum during Y Combinator’s Summer of 2011 class, but has decided to continue working as only an adviser to the company, leaving active development on Picplum in the hands of co-founder Akshay Dodeja. Stamatiou joins Twitter as an experience designer on the company’s growth team.

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Facebook Wants to Beef Up Design Talent in NYC Office

Mike Isaac in Social on December 4, 2012 at 2:03 pm PT

Facebook is actively seeking designers to work in its midtown Manhattan office, the company announced Monday. Most of Facebook’s 90-member design team is housed in its Menlo Park, Calif., office, though the company aims to recruit enough talent to work specifically out of the 150-person East Coast office. The team will work in conjunction with the advertising sales team to make sure monetized products look pretty on the Facebook platform, which makes sense, considering much of the industry’s ad sales activity is out East.