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Dave Winer wrote a timely piece this morning about how Facebook is scaring him since the new API allows applications to post status items to your Facebook timeline without a users intervention. It is an extension of Facebook Instant and they call it frictionless sharing.

Ewan McIntosh makes some points and suggestions for teachers use of Facebook, all commonsense.

There's a lot of talk about social media in learning but where's the action? Well, something's happening in social media and learning, and Facebook is looking like a front runner. 

Groups and pages in Facebook - for education

The FaceBook page for Moodle

We have a Facebook page!

"While there are an enormous number of articles that talk vaguely about how to create a custom landing page, very few discuss the nuances of actually designing and programming one. Here we will discuss the subtleties of designing a Facebook landing page and FBML programming."

Facebook aims to change the social graph and resist Google+

Cornwall College LSIS funded Research based project exploring the Issues for the uses of Facebookwith 16-19 year old Learners. Bex Ferriday.All the documents written as a result of the LSIS Facebook project are freely available from a range of internet locations. Documents are as follows:* Briefing paper (with case studies)* Suggested acceptable use policy* Plenary dissemination slides:paper and case studies available on Slideshare:

Unfortunately this is stuff we need to keep aware of. Do we push RSS as a channel or not? Still can for a while certainly - news etc, will need to see where it goes.

"...the average user has no way of pulling that data out of Twitter or Facebook."

Short piece on the increasing size of FaceBook - now over 800m users - the same as were on the entire Internet in 2004 when FB started.

"Back in March I served on a panel along with Liz Gross, Ed Cabellon, and Greg Heiberger at the #sxswEDU conference. Here are some of the highlights: Greg and I talk about our latest research on using Twitter to support students throughout their first year of college. I summarize my recent research on using Facebook in education. Greg explores the future of higher education and how new technologies can be used to effectively improve student success. Liz discusses how to use Facebook to market your institution and programs. Ed explains how to frame productive social media use to administrators. I get snarky about EdTech startups and how they don't communicate with educators."

Check out this presentation: Gluing together Blackboard, Facebook, & Twitter http://t.co/JCg9xt6s #RSS #SoMe #LMS (via @slideshare)

Slide 50 Bb-->Fb/twitter flowchart is intriguing (obviously substitute Moodle for Bb)

Good article exploring a fundamental difference between news in Twitter and (lack of) news in Facebook

You've ticked the 'keep private' setting in FaceBook but is that it? Graphic of FB privacy settings.

"What a difference a year makes. Twelve months ago the most adventurous business schools were experimenting with e-readers - Kindles - to replace paper case studies and textbooks, and Facebook to boost student recruitment. Today, e-readers are passé; Facebook ubiquitous." --Someone tell WMS!

The #Facebook Effect: College Students' Perceptions of #Online #Discussions in the Age of #SocNet http://t.co/YzecYeoP (PDF via @hrheingold)

FB is associating 'likes' with people without their knowledge.

Some interesting stats but doesn't really explain the title although I haven't checked out academic-connect yet.

Short post on using social media with learners.