Links and Things 02/18/2009

• Bookmark & Share – The Power of the Button™ | OnlyWire

  Bookmark & Share
  Increase traffic to your website and
  auto-submit all your bookmarks with One Button

  tags: tools, web2.0, bookmarking, tags, bookmarklet, social, socialbookmarking, tagging

• Facebook for Parents

  To help kids reach their full potential, parents today must know about Facebook. That’s the purpose of this website.

  tags: facebook, socialnetworking, web2.0, education

• 3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction — Campus Technology

  The reality is, however, that just as with any actual use of technology in instruction, there are always challenges, not only in practical terms with familiarity with the technology itself but, more importantly, in a pedagogical sense as the benefits to teaching and learning are examined more thoroughly. How can the instructional uses of a wiki be maximized to ensure this higher level of engagement with students?

  tags: web2.0, wiki, collaboration, digitallearning, elearning, classroom2.0

• 8hands | Brings Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter and all your favorite social networks to your desktop and your mobile!

  8hands is a service for the social networks users that want to always stay in the know but don’t want to waste too much time on checking their blogs and profiles. The 8hands Desktop application will organize all your social networks into one place and notify you upon new events.

  tags: software, social, web2.0, aggregator, socialnetworking, community, tools

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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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.

  tags: twitter, web2.0, socialnetworking, socialmedia

• 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.”

  tags: socialnetworking, socialmedia, professionalism, web2.0, slideshare

• 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.

  tags: jing, screencast, screenshot, sharing, pictures, web2.0

  • 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

• 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.

  tags: web2.0, social, socialnetworking, community, software, socialsoftware, networking, sharing

• 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?

  tags: screencapture, screencast, web2.0, sharing, presentation, photos, screenshot

• resizeimage.org – Resize images with ease

  A simple web 2.0 tool for quick image resizing and cropping

  tags: photos, tools, web2.0

• Screencast.com

  A place to upload, manage, and share high-quality videos, presentations, documents and images

  tags: screencast, web2.0, sharing, presentation, podcasting, hosting

• 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.

  tags: projectmanagement, collaboration, web2.0, socialnetworking, knowledge work, search, ideas

• Online Collaboration Tools – New Technologies And Web Services – Sharewood Guide Jan 04 09 – Robin Good’s Latest News

  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.

  tags: tools, collaboration, web2.0, elearning, education, ideas

• Raptr: What are you playing?

  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
  * Update your games automatically
  * Display your gaming identities in one place

  tags: social, gaming, socialnetworking, community, networking, web2.0

• 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.

  tags: twitter, tools, web2.0, mashable, microblogging, socialnetworking

• 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.

  tags: twitter, web2.0, facebook, article

• 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.”

  tags: web2.0, twitter, article

• A Twitter Search Experiment from Dare Obasanjo

  A beta twitter search from Microsoft Labs Dare Obasanjo

  tags: twitter, search, web2.0

• TAATU

  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.

  tags: yaslc, Secondlife, virtualworlds, avatar, web2.0

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog

  tags: education, blog, technology, web2.0, teaching, edublogs, learning, wiki

• Newlively – Home

  A new google lively?

  tags: yaslc, Secondlife, avatar, online, web2.0

• 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.

  tags: storage, media, sharing, backup, web2.0, filesharing

• 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. “

  tags: learning, web2.0, education, learning2.0, ple, pln, digitallearning

• 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.

  tags: mindmapping, collaboration, whiteboard, web2.0, web confrence, conference

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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• weblin: chat with 3D avatars and instant messenger functions

  weblin makes you and others on the Web visible as small avatars. There are others on the same page you are on right now. Weblin opens a new and exciting world on every web site.

  tags: yaslc, Secondlife, avatar, web2.0, ideas

• Why Social Works | Regular Geek

  In the past few years, we have seen the explosion of “social”. Obviously, lots of people ask why. I feel that a lot of it boils down to simple human nature. People are social beings, regardless of their tendency towards introversion or extroversion. Introverts are social, just on a smaller scale, maybe even just one-on-one interactions. Everyone knows that extroverts are social, because everyone talks to them at some point during a party. On the internet, “social” is a little different. “Social” means the connections you make with friends and acquaintances on various sites on the internet. These sites could be social news like Digg, Mixx, etc. It could also be a social network like Facebook or LinkedIn. There are also lifestreaming and aggregation sites to combine your activity into one location.

  tags: geek, web2.0, socialnetworking

• StatTweets.com Sports Stats + Twitter – NFL, NBA, College – Powered By Statsheet.com

  Each StatTweet account has the ability to send stats to Twitter users. You just need to send a reply to the team account your interested in using the syntax described below. A few minutes later that account will send a reply to you with the requested stats.

  tags: twitter, statistics, web2.0, ideas

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Reply to: How Many Friends is Too Many? – ReadWriteWeb

My post in reply to: How Many Friends is Too Many? – ReadWriteWeb

Can you call them friends or contacts? In this scenario it is better to call them contacts. Linkedin for example is not a site I use to find out what my friends are doing. I use Facebook for keeping up with friends. If you have over 10 or 15 friends in Facebook are you then using Facebook like Linkedin or more like an RSS feed about people you know, once new and are networking with. Facebook might better be considered a linkedin with non-business and/or non-work related contacts in a scenario with many friends.

Facebook for dummies mentioned that it is a way to keep in contact with friends and family regardless of changes in address, telephone numbers, email addresses, or career changes. Facebook is kind or an Outlook (or other MS hater contacts manager that keeps notifying you of your friends status, location, and updated contacts.

Facebook in Real Life

True… So true