For those, who don't know what's LinkedIn. Here a quick sneak peek.

LinkedIn is one of the largest professional social networking sites and also being a home for almost all the tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs spread across the globe. But today, we will be seeing about how to boost your LinkedIn profile to make it visible to a large set of your own domain experts and recuruiters.

1. Definite Summary:

No one bothers about a definite summary. Why it is exceptionally important because it is the gateway to your profile. Anyone who is visiting your profile will be first looking at your summary as it takes an important role of portraying your entire professional life just at the edge of few lines. One important thing is not to stuff your profile summary with all the exceptional things that you've done all through your life but be sure to portray only those things which really matter to your recruiters. Use words which will surely have a great influence on your profile viewers.  

Advice: Keep it short and crisp.

2. Enable Career Advice Hub

We all underestimate the power of receiving and giving the career recommendations until we know the value of it. So, today we will see how the Career Advice Hub works. We will all be looking for one perfect advice to reach and achieve our goal and dreams. You must need to tell LinkedIn that you are looking for an advice from professional people or peers and the intelligent algorithm will start looking for people who can give advice to you within your domain. If you are looking for a piece of advice away from your domain, then in that case you can also specify a specific problem to get your advice on. This platform helps you to get initiated with the top tech people who are willing to address your problem by giving you a piece of advice. 

3. Updating Career Interests

LinkedIn offers you a massive chance to tell your recruiters that you are open for new opportunities. If you enable this feature, you would be directing all the intended recruiters to see your profile and then you can probably secure a chance to work for your dream company.

4. Updating your Experience

You must know one more important thing that is to update your profile. In that aspect, your first attempt has to be directed towards updating your experience. Here you can mention about all the positions that you have held so far and also your current position. Describe your work responsibilities in all your jobs, so that it will help your viewer to find your capable areas.

5. Volunteering

In this fast paced world, people often term that they are in a rat race for an invisible goal. But, you should also remember that individual social responsibility also plays an important role to get your dream job. It is not about your dream job, but it is showcases your humane nature to your recruiters. So, try joining as a volunteer in any of the Non-Profit Organizations which aligns with your interests.

6. Endorsements

Endorsements comes in way handy when you are trying to prove yourself to a new recruiter. Usually endorsements are given by your friends, colleagues and other peers who either worked with you in the past or currently working with you on multiple projects. This field shows your exceptional dedication that you have put in to use all your technical skills. Try asking your friends to endorse you. The higher the endorsements, the higher the credibility will be.

7. Recommendations

Recommendations are similar to endorsements but these are for you as a person. They can be either for your skills but people usually use endorsements to rate your skills and use recommendations to share their experience with you. You can request your teachers, previous managers, friends, fellow students and current colleagues to recommend you.

8. Accomplishments

This can have a massive effect on your profile just like a nuclear missile. This small little portion of your profile gives a quick and a deeper insight about your technical knowledge because you can showcase all your certification, extra-curricular achievements, courses you have taken up and completed among others. Do not feel lazy to fill this section up.

9. Contact

Networking among professional people is the main idea behind LinkedIn. Providing your eMail address and your phone number can incredibly increase your visibility to the external viewers who are on a constant watch to recruit professionals with necessary industrial skills. Do update your contact details in this section. You can also set privacy as per your interest.

Last but not the least,

10. Profile Picture

Come on, this is not a Facebook or a SnapChat to have a weird fancy profile pictures of yours. Please be sure to have a professional picture. It's not mandatory for you to dress up in suit but at least have a picture in formals because at the end most of the people visit your profile based on your profile picture. Picture speaks a lot than words.

 

"There is no dark side"

Defining digital trust

The Niantic team had three big goals in mind when building "Pokemon Go," Hanke says.

It's like no other game out there, Pokemon or otherwise. That's great news for Nintendo and its share price, which has skyrocketed on the indication that it can thrive in a smartphone-driven world.

And while "Pokemon Go" may be an overnight sensation, it took a lot of work, a lot of hard thinking, and a little bit of luck over the last few years to make it what it is.

Before "Pokemon Go," Niantic was best known for "Ingress" - the Android and iPhone game that challenged players to explore the world around them and claim territory. At its peak, "Ingress" counted millions of players around the world.

"Pokemon Go" is like a spiritual sequel to "Ingress." Niantic took a lot of the "Ingress" data, and a lot of the lessons it learned about keeping players safe, to make "Pokemon Go" work and populate its world.

To hear Hanke tell it, that's because "Ingress" was always intended to be kind of a proof-of-concept for ways in which Google and Niantic could help outside partners and customers build their own games.

"Our intent was to make a platform for many different experiences," Hanke says.

And Pokemon was a natural fit.

Enter the Pokemon Company - the joint venture that co-owns the Pokemon copyright, with Pokemon game developer Game Freak, toy maker Creatures, and Nintendo all holding an equal stake.

Google and the Pokemon Company first connected on April Fools' Day 2014, when a short-lived but extremely viral game challenged players to find Pokemon via the Google Maps mobile apps. People loved it: Google Maps plus Pokemon was "like chocolate and peanut butter," Hanke says. And an idea was born.

Emboldened by the success of the April Fools' Day joke, Niantic pitched Nintendo and the Pokemon Company on the game that would become "Pokemon Go." It turned out that Pokemon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara was already a high-level "Ingress" player in Japan, which made those conversations much easier.

And the late, beloved Nintendo CEO Saotoru Iwata gave his highest approval to the project, recognizing that the company was late to the smartphone era, and willing to bet on Niantic to help turn things around.

"They totally got where we were coming from," Hanke says.

In early 2015, around the same time that Google was beginning to talk internally about spinning non-core businesses off into a holding company called Alphabet, the idea of Niantic "perhaps becoming its own thing surfaced," Hanke says.

The logic, he says, was that "we were always kind of bumping up against Google's desire to stay neutral," Hanke says.

Google builds products like Maps, and marketplaces like the Google Play Store, as a "horizontal, low-level platform," Hanke says. It meant that Niantic couldn't be given special treatment over any other developer using Google platforms, or those other developers might get upset and look for alternatives.

Plus, it opens up the door for Niantic to work with other customers and partners who might have been scared off by the prospect of working with a superpower like Google. The values and needs of certain customers were "not always aligned with Google," Hanke says.

At the same time, it was thought that it would only help Niantic's collaboration with Nintendo and the Pokemon Company if they held a financial stake in the venture, and they could "open up and share more" if they had some percentage of ownership in the finished product.

Everything "kind of lined up," and in late 2015, Niantic spun off with Google, Nintendo, and the Pokemon Company all participating in a $20 million investment round to kick things off.

Hanke has only praise for the process of working with The Pokemon Company, its main collaborator on the project.

There was a funny thing, though: The Pokemon Company loved "Ingress," and Niantic loved the Pokemon series, and they each wanted the game to be more like the other.

"We were trying to pull things from Pokemon, and they were more from 'Ingress,'" Hanke says.

The two companies shared crucial elements like the three-dimensional models and sounds for the Pokemon themselves, saving a lot of time while also ensuring "Pokemon Go" was as true to the classic games as possible.

The music, notably, is similar to the original Pokemon games - Junichi Masuda, the composer of the classic low-fi soundtrack on the original "Pokemon Red and Blue," wrote a new score for "Pokemon Go."

Masuda, who has since become the director of the modern Pokemon games, including the forthcoming "Pokemon Sun and Moon," also helped Niantic develop "Pokemon Go's" signature "capture" mechanic of throwing Poke Balls with precision at the monsters, Hanke says.

The goal was to make something that was recognizable to fans of the classic Pokemon games, including catching and battling, but that was "more accessible" to people who don't have the time or willingness to learn the more "demanding" systems of the original games. Catching Pokemon, especially, is supposed to be easy to learn, as an easy on-ramp to later-game mechanics like battling and capturing Gyms.

In fact, Hanke says, Niantic almost didn't include the Pokemon games' key element of "evolving" a Pokemon into a new form to make it stronger, because they were afraid it might be too complicated for new players. But they eventually relented. And sooner rather than later, Hanke says, more classic features like Pokemon trading with friends is coming.

"We honored the spirit of the original game," Hanke says. "I like where we landed."

So if you're a part of the "Pokemon Go" phenomenon, understand it was a series of very deliberate choices that got you hooked, the culmination of a long road that began many years ago.

Oh, and I caught the Pikachu.

References: BI, Wikipedia

Image credits: Pokemon Go App, Google

BlackBerry users, here is the news that you don't want to hear ! 

Facebook-owned WhatsApp and is dropping support for BBOS and BlackBerry 10 devices at the end of the year, now Facebook itself will discontinue supporting the platform. That means the Facebook and Messenger apps will no longer work on either platform.

The announcement was made on the Inside BlackBerry blog last week.

BBOS runs on older BlackBerry devices, such as the Bold. BlackBerry 10 powers more recent devices such as the Passport and Classic.

BlackBerry 10 operating system in favor of Android-powered devices, such as the BlackBerry Priv ,will continue to be able to run the Android version of facebook's apps.

On the othert side, BlackBerry 10 users can still download and install the Android version of the Facebook app through the Amazon App Store, or use the mobile Facebook site to access their accounts. BlackBerry 10 has long included the ability to run Android apps, but it’s not the best experience. Often features don’t work, or apps fail to open at all.

The most powerful 4‑inch phone ever with a known design, then reinvented it from the inside out. The A9 is the same advanced chip used in iPhone 6s. The 12‑megapixel camera captures incredible photos and 4K videos. And Live Photos bring your images to life. The result is an iPhone that looks small. But lives large.

In short iPhone SE, which is essentially an iPhone 6s stuffed into a 5s case. It has everything you’d expect from the latest iPhone: The A9 processor is three times faster than the chip in the 5s. There’s a 12-megapixel camera that also captures 4K video. It has Touch ID. You can get it in rose gold and it starts at $399. The only exception is 3D Touch functionality.

The tech is new, but the design is so four years ago. Look past the matte edges and the SE logo and this phone is a dead ringer for the iPhone 5s. This is perhaps one of Apple’s most telling design admissions to date. The fact is, the iPhone 5 (and 5s) has long been the golden child of Apple phone design and a benchmark for phones in general.

In fact, the iPhone SE is the cheapest launch price for an Apple smartphone at $399. The story, for a while, got even better for the Indian customer as Apple initially announced that the 16GB version of this phone would be priced in India at a very aggressive Rs 30,000. However, the price was later corrected to a more Apple-like Rs 39,000.