Panoramio – Photos of the World Nice Google maps based application (one of many!) which tags photos to locations. I’ve also had Imagini bookmarked for a while. The idea behind that is that you can select photos that represent your personality – and find other members based on that. They call it “Visual DNA”…
Category: Social Networking
Well, if They're Already Using It …
Andy Guess writes in Inside Higher Ed about various ideas that cropped up at the Educause conference – considering tools that students are using, and how/ if those should be incorporated into institutional offering. One example he quoted was Northwestern’s decision to use gmail for their email system. The advantages were that the students were getting…
Google's OpenSocial.
I’ve already mentioned OpenSocial – which has clearly been attracting a lot of interest. Erik Schonfeld comments on TechCrunch, that no consumers have yet changed their social networking usage. Yet. He goes on to quote Andreesen (from Ning) saying that this will simply make application developers’ lives easier – as they’ll essentially have to develop…
How many social networks…
… can a person keep up with. To support the work I have been doing, over the years, (and, yes it is years) I have created accounts on assorted Social Network sites. I’m now realising the error of not keeping the original confirmation emails. I can’t remember when I first signed up to Facebook, but…
OpenSocial – Google Code
OpenSocial – Google Code has finally been launched. There are many websites implementing OpenSocial, including Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING. I’ve not yet had a chance to have an explore. At the moment, they have links to Orkut, (the Social network that…
Facebooking feminism
Kathy Fischer discusses the way that the University of Connecticut Women’s Center has used a Facebook community. Fischer comments that as Facebook allows students to explore their identity, so it fitted well with the ethos of the centre. The ability of users to set levels of privacy was seen as useful, though Fischer realised the…
Facebook envy – Telegraph
Yet another journalist (Nicholas Coleridge, from the Telegraph), looks at Facebook , and, in particular, aspects of friendship. He comments “We have turned into a nation of social-stamp collectors.” At the start of his facebook ventures, Coleridge was adding all offers of friendship – though not actually asking anyone to be a friend. Which more…
Introducing EduGarage!
Blackboard officially launched EduGarage on October 23rd. This is a site that brings together all the developers working on Powerlinks for the assorted Blackboard products. It’s set up as a wiki, with forums etc. What I find particularly interesting is that they’ve announced it on the Blackboard blog, which is rather more feature rich (essentially…
Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English
Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English I’ve seen CommonCraft’s “Wikis in Plain English” at YouTube, but this site is more useful, as they’ve got several videos – including Social Networking sites, RSS etc.,…
What are "friends" – and what's it costing businesses?
The Guardian reports on research by Dr. Reader (Sheffield Hallam) looking at the nature of friendship, and how that is/ isn’t changing with the way that people are using Facebook etc., While they found that many users may have more “friends”, they still had the same 5 or so really close friends that the average…