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De-friending Professional Contacts on Facebook

“I recently restricted my Facebook account to close friends and family and “de-friended” 205 people. Click after click banished former and current managers, co-workers and other professional... 
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Developing a Personal Brand Online, an Interview with Jeremiah Owyang

“Twitter is part of my overall online personal brand, but like one of the sections of a great orchestra, it’s only one of the parts. It serves a specific, yet important role. I use all the... 
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Social Networking Challenges Report

“W3C organized a workshop on the Future of Social Networking in January 2009, hosted in Barcelona by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and ReadyPeople, in order to bring together industry actors... 
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What’s Your Social Media Routine?

With all the buzz in the past year about social media — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and all the rest, not to mention articles about how to measure social media ROI, a missing piece has been how... 
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Desktop Linux in Indiana Schools

“I recently shared with you how the state of Indiana is using Linux to bring “one-to-one” computing to their schools as part of the Indiana Access Program (one computer per student in... 
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Blogs Are Not the Only Fruit

“What is really going on is a major shift in the way that we are able to communicate, collaborate and share things with each other using online technologies. The key to this is not the technology... 
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Santa Paula, California: A City With its Own Weblog

The City of Santa Paula blog – perhaps the only one in the country – lacks some of the hallmarks of other blogs, especially the ability of visitors to leave comments. “This is meant to... 
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Manage Guideline Violations in Your Online Community

“But, despite your best efforts, there are always members who break the guidelines – unwittingly or otherwise. How can you track the violations that each user has made? How about the action... 
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Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software

“When we hear the word “software,” most of us think of things like Word, Powerpoint, or Photoshop, tools for individual users. These tools treat the computer as a box, a self-contained... 
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Jotspot: Hosted Wiki with Neat Integration and Functionality

I just found JotSpot. It’s in beta. Their product has not only smoothed the rough edges of wiki software. They also integrate with many information sources, for example, MapQuest, email, calendars,... 
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Deaf Benefit Greatly from SMS

“Research out of Australian universities on text-based mobile messaging could herald good news for the deaf in the United States—if cellular carriers can agree to improve interoperability between... 
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The Digital Future: Ten Years, Ten Trends

“The fourth Digital Future Report includes findings that compare Internet users to non-users, new users (less than one year online) to very experienced users (seven years or more online), and users... 
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Overstock Auctions Takes on eBay

“EBay has some new competition in the form of p2p auctions just launched on Overstock.com. Accessible through a new auctions tab on the site, Overstock’s auction marketplace features listing... 
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Macromedia Starts Meter on Web Conferencing

“Macromedia is set to announce a new pay-as-you-go plan on Tuesday for its Breeze Live Web conferencing service. In addition to existing plans that allow businesses to pay for the service by annual... 
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Raising the Dead

“Twenty years after he found the Tent Girl, Riddle told his story to a teenager named Todd Matthews. And Matthews, driven by tragedies of his own, would become compelled to connect a life to her... 
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For Liars and Loafers, Cellphones Offer an Alibi

“Cellphones are chock-full of features like built-in cameras, personalized ring tones and text messaging. They also gave a real boost to Kenny Hall’s effort to cheat on his girlfriend. Mr.... 
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Nerd Values Help Propel Tiny Craigslist Into Classifieds Threa

“Craig Newmark started the community site as a hobby, but it soon became a San Francisco area institution for selling cars, getting jobs and finding sex. But just how much has it eaten into newspapers’... 
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Earth 911 site serves as personal portal for the environmentally aware

“Across the United States, government workers and volunteers are feeding all kinds of environment-related information into Earth 911, an environmental clearinghouse of unparalleled scope and value,... 
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Stocks and Flows in Online Communication

“Communication is either in a state of flow or it is stocked, and sometimes in transit from one to the other. For example, the kind of communication that comes from an instant message is flow- its... 
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Friends, XFN, and Hyperlinks

“XFN™, a simple way to represent human relationships within hyperlinks, is part of the efforts of the Global Multimedia Protocols Group, GMPG, founded by Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, Matthew Mullenweg.... 
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