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Tag: Microblogging

  • 2009 Predictions

    Whoa… 2008 saw me put up almost a thousand posts, not to shabby. But I think that would have been higher if I wasn’t able to tweet at least a few of the things that would have otherwise been given a one liner post. And as I see the calendar is almost ready to show…

  • I’m 1M

    The world works in odd ways, with individuals often pondering the implications of events and the machinations that surround those events. One of these strange events happened last night – I pinged out that I was watching the SNL Pre-Election special and low and behold, that was “dent” (a tweet on identi.ca) 1000000. I don’t…

  • Business model for Twitter?

    This is not the official model by any stretch of the imagination, but over the weekend I was thinking about some of the ways that one might define a social networking site, thinking that the key part of any SNS is that the user gets to be themselves and “freely” gives of themselves as they…

  • Edmodo twitters in the classroom

    There is nothing to prevent teachers (should they have the time) from using Twitter in the classroom if the network admins allow it. But if Twitter is deemed non educational, there is now another resource out there. Edmodo claims that is the free communication platform for education. It is currently in alpha and is taking…

  • Social Networking Effects

    Leave it to Freakonomics to find these people and have them look into some of the effects of Social Networking. Stephan asked: Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective? Of Martin Baily, Danah Boyd, Steve Chazin,…