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When does sharing about one's personal life cross the line and become too much information?

Twitter, Facebook and other similar online services are making it easier than ever for people to share their thoughts with others. But the obsession many people have for posting updates also raises the question: When does sharing about one's personal life cross the line and become too much information?

Open source microblogging platform intended to be an alternative to Twitter. Looks like schools or businesses could install this for internal use. Somefascinating applications.

"Meet Chime.in, which launched in beta form at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday. Chime.in, which is reminiscent of Twitter, Digg, and Facebook, among others, is the latest brainchild of Bill Gross, who founded the UberMedia properties, including UberTwitter."

The Keep America Beautiful campaign is adding a new website to their name. They already have one for the organization, but are now building on it with a website that is called a social volunteer hub. This helps people who want to start their own clean-up project. Through this website they reach out with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to gain more attention nationally.

"And as the teachers spell out, it is this obsession which has a direct impact on the future of our children - affecting their grades because they fail to complete their homework on time or to the standard required, and being unable to concentrate in class."

Talks about teachers that think social networking is affecting education in a negative way.

This article is about how companies use Twitter to advertise to customers.

This websites tells us how people use Facebook and Twitter to virtually communicate. It says that people should not forget about the traditional ways of communication.

Instagram is on Android with support for Facebook Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare but not Flickr. Increasingly, pictures are being shared due to the proliferation of websites like pinterest. It is a free app and a great way to share photographs from your phone.

A ;new proposed law in the UK wants Skype and social networking sites to be required to keep communications for 12 months. I am thinking this would also apply to Twitter. Understandably, privacy concerns swirl around this proposal. "Ministers say change is needed to help fight crime and terrorism, but critics warn it is an attack on privacy. Internet service providers (ISPs) are obliged to keep details of users' web access, email and internet phone calls for 12 months, under an EU directive from 2009. Although the content of the calls is not kept, the sender, recipient, time of communication and geographical location does have to be recorded. The proposed new law - which the Home Office says will be brought in "as soon as parliamentary time allows" - would extend those requirements to social networking sites and internet phone services such as Skype."

Article explains that malicious applications can be removed from the android phone. iPhone has the same feature. May give some inspiriation for a segment of vision?

Everyone's all a-twitter over the so-called "kill switch" found in Google's first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. Here's the thing, though: Not only is it not a big deal -- it's actually a good thing.

This morning San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom announced his bid for California Governor via Twitter,

misuse of twiitter at a telephone company Australia

During his presentation, the Kansas State University professor breaks down his attempts to integrate Facebook, Netvibes, Diigo, Google Apps, Jott, Twitter, and other emerging technologies to create an education portal of the future. "It's basically an ongoing experiment to create a portal for me and my students to work online," he explains. "We tried every social media application you can think of. Some worked, some didn't."

Excellent article on what Google wave is intended to be: a step up from email to allow for document collaboration. OK, now I finally get it. Seeing people talk about it replacing twitter, etc. I was like "nah - not with THIS" but seeing this blog post made the light go on - a must read for those who want to truly understand what google wave is for and to not get so hyper about what it isn't.

Important NEW technology for workflow software group and virtual communications. This would make a GREAT topic of video and perhaps we could try to get some invites for students to test out.

"Over the past months, we've written quite a few PDF manuals for you, on all kinds of diverging subjects, including BitTorrent, iTunes, iPhone, Twitter, Mac, Linux, Photoshop and several other topics. "

Twitter and backchanneling sessions only capture information for finite periods of time. This site will be used to store all of the great links and resources discovered through ISTE 2011 (Jun 26-29, 2011) so you can retrieve them at home. Please join with me and share your favorite links.

"The Office of Fair Trading is warning debt collectors not to pursue people who owe them money on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. "

"The first is social media is much more than a fad (which you have probably read about, as well.) It's not just that Twitter has been at the heart of the Arab Spring and other social and political developments of recent years. Nor that Facebook has acquired so many millions of users all over the world. It's the fact that people use these new media in such a variety of ways it becomes impossible to distinguish business from pleasure. Wikipedia, for instance, has shown that people not only long to discover, they want to share. The psychological effect on business and public life has been immense; in fact I would say that there is a new business climate of openness"