Category: Social Creatures
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Put up or …
Well, perhaps shut up – or so it would seem when it comes to managing the way that people communicate and choose to communicate or maintain their personal and professional networks – according to Mat Asay: the point is that enterprise applications need to interweave with how people actually communicate: email, IM, phone (VoIP), and…Facebook.…
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Facebook the new adult entertainment?
Well, this was an interesting find. According to a CNN/Time article, Facebook is a more popular destination for young people than adult entertainment. Somewhat interesting to be sure, but in a Freakonomics style of analysis, both sites are filling a human need to socailize, but as opposed to “connecting” with a model that there is…
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A good king gives everything away…
an old king hoards… that is was the take away message for me from the last session I attended on the collaborative tools used in the courses that make up the MET program at UBC. And I must say, there are doing some really good things there. The talk itself brought out the classic ideas…
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Facebook the old AOL?
This is not in any way talking about how AOL is a business or anything else about how it has changed since it “connected” to the Internet. I’m talking about the old days when these large dial in networks could only support communications inside their own confines. It came to me this weekend, that it’s…
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Let your fingers do the walking on the interweb
With Facebook opening up their member profile pages to the search engines shortly, it is very possible that these sites will effectively become the phone books of the ‘web. This prospect must certainly get advertising types in a tizzy – what if we can get more ads in FB or MyS? Hopefully the sn sites…