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1voteFOC08 (1): Groups to Communities.
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2voteWhile the big public news for Ning this week is their participation in and support of Google's Open Social platform (will have to save talking about that for another day), yesterday they made a quiet decision which will greatly benefit the educational community: to provide ad-free student networks to K-12 educators.
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1voteChange.org is a social network for social activism, incorporating nonprofits, politicians, and people across the globe.
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1vote# Story Highlights # Freshmen will step onto campuses with a jump-start on their new social lives # Facebook allows them to form friendships before they attend orientation # Students can also find groups of friends based on interests
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3voteThe following 35 perspectives on online social networking sites can be sorted into different overall categories (or different actors or discourses). As a researcher I certainly do not agree with all of the mentioned perspectives, but some of them do represent the opinions (or prejudices) I hear when I am out giving lectures on social networking to adults. After my list, I propose six overarching categories.
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1voteMarc Hedlund, founder of the intriguing Wesabe, recently made this interesting observation: One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. [...]
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2voteGeek reporter Annalee Newitz has a nice pair of articles on Wired News this morning about the way that scammers manipulate community voting sites like eBay, Yahoo Stores and Digg. In the first one, Herding the Mob, Newitz describes a variety of techniques used to manipulate rankings [...]
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4voteCreate Your Own Social Network for Anything
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1vote[...] A handful of police departments have used YouTube as a law enforcement tool, putting up videos of suspects and eliciting help from the Internet-using public in identifying them. Specialists say the idea has promise, but it's too soon to tell whether it will have staying power amid constantly evolving technologies. [...]
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