According to the BBC, Facebook mobile dwarfed the rest of the mobile web in usage with 2.2 billion minutes and Google and Microsoft pulling in a combined 600 million minutes in December. If you look at this UK data combined with the PEW data from earlier in the week it really suggests that the 17-30…
One of my laments about Facebook is that it is a walled garden, and if someone comments in FB, it’s not reflected on the blog, until now. I’ve found this cool plugin that seems to do the trick and via Gravatar, show where the comments originate. There is no support for likes right now, but…
While it is only experimental, Purdue is starting to test how to make use of the “back channel” in a lecture in the form of an application called “Hotseat“. The students seem to like it. “Hotseat is turning out to be a nice innovation. I’m seeing students interact more with the course and ask relevant…
I originally put this as an update from my previous post, but then I figured that it would be better just to post it on its own. It all seems to be a direct attack on a single user of both services (Wired): CNet, citing Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, says this attack…
I remember way back in the days when search engine home pages were not reliable, when Yahoo! or MSN was down, people thought the entire net was down because they didn’t know how to input URLs. Now I don’t think much has changed in the last 5-10 years in terms of how many people use…