Schoology is a startup that seeks to address many of the pain points of the LMS: Schoology is easy to use. It's free. It offers data portability. It encourages communication and collaboration with look and feel of contemporary social networking sites rather than the bulletin boards of circa 1996. But it isn't simply a social networking tool. Schoology provides the functionality of its big name competitors - Blackboard, Moodle.
In Activity Streams, verbs are their own objects, and the variety of actions that can be represented is limited only by the standard itself. Providers can also use verbs outside the standard, taking the chance that they'll eventually be incorporated, or that a downstream client could parse them anyway. Here's a list of the verbs incorporated in the Activity Streams standard so far:
A US study (http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx) has indicated that younger internet users are losing interest in blogging and switching to shorter and more mobile forms of communication. The number of 12 to 17-year-olds in the US who blog has halved to 14% since 2006, according to a survey for the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
I love Posterous, but I bookmarked this because of something buried deep within Scoble's preposterous, self-aggrandizing comments - the need for an efficient curation service. If that turns out not to be delicious in the future, what is it? Because it sure a heck ain't Friendfeed.
Those who attempt to regain control of communications face outcry. Certain corners of the Internet have been erupting in argument in the past weeks following an announcement by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York that it will henceforth require scientists who blog to ask the permission of presenters before firing up computers or mobile phones and publicizing their findings.
Allows you to build a customised feed of made up of content your friends on other collaborative sites have shared, including news articles, photos, ...
New Feedly combines Google Reader, friendfeed, Twitter in great way for social network addicts http://ff.im/15mmv (via @infomaniac) [from http://twitter.com/jomiralb/statuses/1216843945]
RT @briansolis: The Battle for Your Social Status: Facebook Builds Network Around Your Activity - http://bit.ly/17AAJ (via @stevenmhall) [from http://twitter.com/jomiralb/statuses/1216780585]
New Feedly combines Google Reader, friendfeed, Twitter in great way for social network addicts http://ff.im/15vAq (via @iggykin) [from http://twitter.com/jomiralb/statuses/1216756614]
Social Leveraging squeeze goodness out of the tools that are free strategy acts as platform wrangler drags big names of social media, networking and aggregation together. create one page/blog post that hits on social aggregator ften different directions.
The challenge for Friendfeed and the like is that while I really like all my services gathered in one place, I would rather that these would be centralized on my blog instead of a third party service. Yes you can cross post or add badges, but it's not rea
With Alert Thingy and now Twhirl, the market for FriendFeed desktop apps already feel crowded. The development cycles for both apps are extremely fast and the Twhirl developers arerumored to release a new version tonight.
I’ve written a program that uses Google’s social graph to find the links between Twitter users and Friend Feed users. Download the program, run it, enter your passwords and watch it find and subscribe to all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed.
Just like Thwirl and Snitter totally changed the way I interact with Twitter and drove up my usage as a result, Alert Thingy is doing that for FriendFeed. As Dennis says, who btw I ripped off the title for this post from, the result is that I am evolving
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