Tag: Facebook
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2008 Predictions
This is one of the few last posts of the year as I take a bit of a break and as has become tradition, here are my predictions for the coming year and a review from what I said last year. So here we go. Social Systems Advertising Buyout Search I think that this coming…
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is is gone in Facebook … again
Well it seems that Facebook has a new way for status updates (on the site only… not on Mobile). They still have “is” as a default, but you can now delete it if you wish.
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On being a student 24/7
One of the things that I’ve been telling people when they ask me about how useful social networking might be in terms of it’s use in/within academia is that instructors have to be careful not to get too close to their students. This is a general rule and often part of the code of conduct…
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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…