Tag: Facebook

  • Student wins in Facebook flap

    Well it seems that Chris Avenir has certainly got his moment in the lime light as he as won his case (GN). In the end he got zero on the assignments, but the other students were not similarly punished. Through the process, instructors have said that he should be kicked out. Students are saying (and…

  • Facebook and the stemming of friendly spam PtII

    As an add on to last night, the other thing that is very obvious is that people have figured out a way to get a penny out of some of what used to be spam. Take a look at how many of those surveys are now apps that have ads and collect personal info (what…

  • Personal and Professional Spaces

    I was looking to see if there was anyone else out there in the blogosphere saying what I have commented on in the past about mixing school and online social spaces and I stumbled onto Connecting in a Connected World. Allison has a post there that says the same thing as well as links and…

  • Facebook and Data Portability

    Well it seems that Facebook has taken notice/made good on it’s ideas of being able to open up and make data portable as it has joined (along with Google) – Story one, two.

  • Social networking around the world and trucking this data when you move

    I was going to comment on this later in the week, but this infographic from TR really did it better than I could. Looking at how social networking is not isolated to any one point on the globe (after all, we are all social creatures), there are different systems that dominate. A friend of mine…