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"Facebook and Apple are leading to the Balkanisation of the Internet"

Google hurriedly introduced business/brand pages feature into its latest social networking platform Google Plus (Google+) on Monday, to serve the equivalent of the ever popular Facebook Pages. It intends to serve as a means of promoting businesses and brands, whereas such feat is only attainable with great pool of users on hand.

Review of book on implementing OLPC in the class. Interesting paragraph on boundary issues - by giving kids a laptop, school was impinging on home life and parental decisions on whether their kids should have  alaptop at home.

Interesting. "We analyzed 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances collected from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers, who also took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, and age."

More stuff for the Analytics box. If this can grab authenticated data then return it through a dashboard display, it could give students a wide view of what they are doing - Moodle, library, facebook contacts with classmates etc.

So even the people who hate something (the web? Social media? networking? computers?) are now starting to join FaceBook. We need a timescale on this as well for a start.

Hugh MacLeod explains why he is concentrating on blogging as a platform that is >his< unlike FB & Twitter.

New tool that allows you to connect all your contact info, tweets, email, facebook stuff together

Widget creator - free from Sun.

Bebo is bombing in NZ while Facebook use is going up, up, up.

Keynote presentation delivered to Instituto Cervantes, Providence, Rhode Island.Social network technologies are reforming the way we communicate with each other inside and outside our learning environments. In this presentation, Stephen Downes offers an inside look at these technologies, how they work, what they can do, and where they will likely lead the future of learning online. Downes will first outline some well-known technologies such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, describing how they are used and outlining how they manage online communication in general. [Slides] [Audio]

The cost of higher education and why cheap shots in facebook sendalongs should get you angry. A compelling post.

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