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ver wondered where all your Twitter friends are? This one-click service shows you exactly where each of your Twitter friends are located. Here's how it works. You go to the Twitter Friends Map tool on Visual.ly (a great repository of interesting infographics and other multimedia) and then click the 'connect' button on the bottom right of your screen. Wait about 20 seconds and then start watching the people you follow magically appear on the Google map.

Twitter is an online social networking tool in which users post 140 character updates of what is going on in their lives along with links to things they think are interesting, funny, or useful to their followers ("following" being essentially what "friending" is on other sites). People use twitter in many ways, some as a newsfeed by following prominent people or networks, some as a pseudo-chatroom by limiting their followers and whom they follow to close friends and family, and some as a microblog for updating people about the work they are doing and their personal lives.

In today's college classrooms the sound of furious note-scribbling has been replaced by clacking on keyboards and tapping on tablets. Thanks to the ubiquity of WiFi on campuses, it's not just note-taking that's been given a 21st-century update. Professors and students alike are constantly online

Very versatile tag cloud generator: possible to generate tag cloud directly from a twitter stream for example

If you're not an avid follower of #edchat on Twitter, you may be missing out on a great opportunity to learn about some new Web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in classrooms around the world. That's because @chickensaltash posed a simple question to the PLN and there has been a huge swell of support as hundreds of people have jumped in to answer the question about which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms.

7 Tips For Using Social Media in Your Classroom

Publishers get more traffic and improved SEO by using Blogstream to encourage more bloggers to link to their articles. Allows journalists to get the latest news of big events in realtime via Twitter. Blog analytics for professionals, providing downloadable spreadsheets of blog- and metadata.