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Despite new ownership and an injection of Justin Timberlake celebrity cachet, the bad news just keeps coming for Myspace.

There's nothing like Web technology trying to replicate clunky, analog methods for organization and interacting with information. What we mean is, it's a terrible practice and we're glad to see one more example of it departing the Internet with LinkedIn's new address book functionality hitting the site today.

While still in beta, the new function looks like a leap ahead of the old Rolodex-style functionality we'd become used to not really ever using.

This morning, professional social network LinkedIn announced that it is opening up its API for developers to build applications around the platform.

Professional social network LinkedIn is showing a little Microsoft love today.

Twitter and LinkedIn have struck a deal for tweets to be shared on LinkedIn, boosting the efforts of both services to be a hub for professional conversation.

Some LinkedIn users will have noticed a change to the navigation and user interface of the LinkedIn.com website, announces a company blog post. The business-focused social network is in the process of rolling out an updated design that aims to improve and simplify site navigation while also offering a cleaner, less-cluttered look. Does the fresh coat of paint hit the mark?

LinkedIn has hit 50 million users, according to a blog post today, growing from 45 million users two months ago. And according to the latest comScore data, LinkedIn is steadily growing in terms of unique visitors.