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"Hoping to give its users a more intimate way to stay in touch, Facebook on Wednesday introduced video chatting inside its online social network through a deal with Skype, the Internet calling service. "

Interesting partnership between two communication giants. Much of the rest of the article discusses this as a counter-attack on Google+. Honestly, this must have been in the works for a while, but it's also okay if it is true. When companies feel the need to innovate to stay competitive, users win.

A huge change in how domain names can be created

I've honestly wondered how long it was going to take until we moved past the URI as the way to get to websites ... sort of reminds me of the evolution behind how we call someone -- from having to use the operator, to various forms of phone numbers, to Skype, and FaceTime names. Interesting stuff.

Underpinning a disdain for social media in higher education is the assumption that incoming students have an inherent aptitude for new technologies "If you took a soldier from a thousand years ago and put them on a battlefield, they'd be dead," Howard Rheingold, a professor teaching virtual community and social media at Stanford University, told me one morning via Skype.

A shoutout to Chris Long for finding this first!

Have you read the book yet? I downloaded it, but haven't had a chance yet. Looks very interesting. We thought about Levy a couple of years ago as a potential keynote speaker for the Symposium.

"Files are so 1990," said Pichai. "I don't think we need files anymore."