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Social Networks that Matter: Twitter under the Microscope
Scholars, advertisers and political activists see massive online social networks as a representation of social interactions that can be used to study the propagation of ideas, social bond dynamics and viral marketing, among others. But the linked structures of social networks do not reveal actual interactions among people. Scarcity of attention and the daily rhythms of life and work makes people default to interacting with those few that matter and that reciprocate their attention. A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the “declared” set of friends and followers.
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Power Up Your Professional Learning Network – SlideShare
“Immerse yourself into networks. Create any and all networks you can find where there are people and ideas to connect to. Collaboration and connections take off.”
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Jing Pro | Add visuals to your online conversations – Annotated
Sometimes you want your videos to get a little more exposure. With Jing Pro, they can join the party on popular video-sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo
Jing Pro uses a premium video format (MPEG-4 AVC) that’s better at recording rich content from your screen. So go ahead—re-capture an online video and add your own commentary. Or record that Skype video chat for posterity.
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YouTube displays low-quality video by default; if you want your viewer to see high-quality video, add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL when you send it to them.
- This is good to know! – post by jh2fct
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Social Networking Software Platform & Social Media Community Building Applications – KickApps
Social & Media Applications on demand
Use KickApps to power audience growth & engagement on your website. Build your own community with social networking and photo & video sharing; create your own widgets, custom video players and much more.
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iOJ – As Easy As Uploading Can Get
IOJ is a full featured client to automate most aspects of file uploading / sharing. It has right click upload, Automatic Screenshots + video and more. What other program will let you share a screenshot in 3 seconds and 3 clicks?
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resizeimage.org – Resize images with ease
A simple web 2.0 tool for quick image resizing and cropping
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A place to upload, manage, and share high-quality videos, presentations, documents and images
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YAKABOD :: Do Stuff That Matters
Yakabod builds Knowledge Networks. Best of four applications on one secure appliance. Search. Content management. Social networking. Collaboration. The Yakabox is robust enterprise software with none of the big-iron or pieces-and-parts headaches. Capture all that stuff buried in shared drives, in-boxes and peoples’ heads. Why spend a third of your career chasing information? Let it find you. It’s easy. The Yakabox is so intuitive you’re productive the first time you log on.
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Here for you today I have selected a set of interesting new tools that bring all those features together into one easy to use interface as well as a new innovative independent platform for teaching and learning.
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Raptr is the social platform for people who like to play and discover games
* Know when your friends are playing
* Share your achievements automatically
* Discover new games you might like
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Twittermania: 140+ More Twitter Tools!
Various Twitter-related tools and plugins have been multiplying fast over since we did our big Twitter Toolbox and 8 awesome Firefox plugins for Twitter earlier. When we say fast, we “mean 140+ new tools” fast, and we probably missed some, too. You know what this means: now you have to arm yourself with dozens of shiny widgets you probably don’t need, but you can’t resist them anyway.
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How Facebook Could Kill Twitter Overnight
Facebook can keep the statuses private, and all comment replies as well and they’ll continue their phenomenal growth rate. They clearly don’t have the development resources though to build tools around their status updates internally. If Facebook opened up statuses tomorrow, Twitter would essentially become a ghost town.
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10 Creative Tips to Improve Yourself on Twitter
“Now professionals, personal friend seekers, students and almost every one is attached to twitter for their own reasons. The immense benefit that twitter encompasses has a lot of sides that is not known to every body. Our quest is to give such 10 opportunities to you which you may have never heard of, but actually others have experimented with them and got success.”
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A Twitter Search Experiment from Dare Obasanjo
A beta twitter search from Microsoft Labs Dare Obasanjo
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Taatu is a virtual multimedia community build from 3D isometric technology with integration of 2.0 webfunctionalities.
This social platform is accesible for all internet surfers without the necessity of downloading special software.
It’s a safe and secured online environment for youngsters that revolves around nightlife, games, movies and music.
The members can personalize their avatar and appartment by use of virtual money (TATs).
Taatu offers his members the possibility to expand and reinforce their social network based on interactive online communication.
The Taatu world consists of 3 language communities that are in direct connection with each other. There’s a French, Dutch and English speaking community. -
A new google lively?
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OpenDrive – Free Online Drive and Syncing
OpenDrive is a remote drive for your computer, that allows you
to store, share or back up files from your computer on the Internet. You can store anything and share it with anyone, right from your desktop. Start storing and sharing today. -
Web 2.0 and Your Own Learning and Development
Video by Steven Downes on the importance of creating a Personal Learning Environment and howto with Web 2.0 tools. “How Web 2.0 supports interaction, usability and relevance in online learning. “
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Dabbleboard – Online whiteboard for drawing & team collaboration
Dabbleboard is a collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that’s actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw.
Draw with flexible tools. Reuse previously-made drawings. Collaborate in real-time with chat and document sharing. All as naturally as using a marker or a pencil.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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