Bing and Facebook just made search social. Will your online life ever be the same again?
http://www.fastcompany.com/1694805/five-things-you-should-know-about-the-new- bing-facebook-features
School Learning Platforms win over students with ‘Facebook’ approach
Schools are using the latest learning platforms to harness pupils’ appetite for social networks, making learning more engaging and fun in class and at home.
Facebook as an Instructional Technology Tool
Can the wildly popular social network be used constructively in the classroom? This student’s story says it can.
http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/08/facebook-as-an-instructional-technology-tool/
Facebook Chat History Manager: Save Facebook Chat History The Easy Way
At times keeping a track of your chat conversations can be very beneficial. Instant messaging clients often have this feature built in through which you can read past conversations. Facebook Chat, however, lacks this feature but you can use Facebook …
Diaspora Preview – All You Need to Know About The New “Open Source Facebook”
Diaspora came about when a group of New York University students from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science were inspired by a speech about freedom and privacy online. Columbia University law professor Eben Moglen described centralised social networks as “spying
How to Create a Facebook Group for Your Classes
Below is a simple tutorial on how to create a Facebook community group for your classes. Note: the tutorial assumes that you already have a Facebook account.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/how-to-create-facebook-group-for-your.html
Hotseat – Backchannel Platform Coming to a Classroom Near You
Some smart IT folks at Purdue University are developing a new platform for hosting classroom backchannel discussions. The new platform is called Hotseat. According the Hotseat website and the promotional videos, Hotseat will integrate Twitter, Facebook, and mobile device feedback …
Facebook Hits 500 Million Active Users
Facebook has just announced that they now have 500 million active users, a substantial percentage of the world, and far more total users than the US has citizens. Using the most recent world population estimates, 7.4% of all people in …
On Facebook, Telling Teachers How Much They Meant
Facebook has drawn more attention as a platform for adolescent meanness and bullying, and as a vehicle for high school and college students to ruthlessly dissect their teachers. But people who are 20, 30 or 40 years beyond graduation are …
Facebook and Others Caught Sending User Data to Advertisers
The Wall Street Journal is reporting on what could be a major scandal brewing for Facebook, MySpace and other social networks: despite assurances to the contrary, the sites have apparently been sending personal and identifiable information about users to their …
Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
Are people headed for the Facebook exit door? It’s too early to call it a trend, but I can sense a gathering momentum. The author of this post explains why he is closing his Facebook account. “This is part altruism …
How Does Facebook Work? The Nuts and Bolts
Social networking is the art of connecting with those who share common interests. Facebook is a social networking. People have been “facebooking” each other for about 6 years now, making Facebook the most used social network with over 350 million …
Visualizing 6 Years of Facebook
Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 and has come a long way from a Harvard-only networking site in the intervening years. In fact, Facebook has undoubtedly become the world’s largest social network, with over 400 million users worldwide and …
Facebook’s Road to 350 Million Users
It’s a flabbergasting number, but even more amazing is the speed with which Facebook has managed to achieve it, trouncing its competitors, including the once mighty MySpace, in the process