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Lincoln is where all the cool kids are these days I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the professional network linkedin has had a fantastic year of growth it continues to do better than analysts expect and the company CEO has hinted that he sees LinkedIn's future as a professional publishing platform it's becoming more of a place to exchange ideas with other peers and companies rather than a site where you just upload your resume and leave you're seeing this in some products like LinkedIn today it's the emails and home page that show top features and news tailored to you and the influence or blog posts from business celebrities like Richard Branson and you'll be seeing more of a new type of AD called sponsored content where companies can pay to promote white papers and best practice documents to a brand's followers it's like a professional version of Facebook sponsored stories every block a site dedicated to pulling in public records and news about your neighborhood has been shut down it launched in 2007 it was bought in 2009 by msnbc.com which was renamed to NBC News and NBC just said it wasn't profitable and pulled the plug on every block which had pages for 19 cities every blocks creators were pioneers in the push for open data and hyper local news and it was a place you could find data like local crimes building permits restaurant inspections it also provided a forum for locals to talk to each other twitter is tweaking its tweet search it's slowly rolling out the ability to search for tweets that are older than a week the older tweets that stay alive and search will be ones that got favorited retweeted and simply just got lots of clicks and breaking news in the over reported world of the vine app since this looping video 2 was released it was marketed as a way to make a six-second video but actually it's a six and a half second video you just can't trust any company these days to tell you the truth we've seen movies based on board games toys and amusement rides but get ready for a TV show based on a social media game the wall street journal reports that farmville is being made into a half-hour television series and if you're keeping track at home Angry Birds is also being made into a cartoon series spotify sap is back in the news it just launched an app for Windows Phone 8 users can stream Spotify songs and create playlists but it's only free to try for two days Spotify service is ten dollars a month but what is free is Spotify playlist poetry tool out in time for Valentine's Day go to playlist poetry calm to search for song titles to make it to a poem and then send it to your sweetie for a laugh that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey