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• Internet Interrupted: Why Architectural Limitations Will Fracture the ‘Net - Nemertes Research updates their important study that has great impact on the growth of SaaS and cloud computing.
• Don’t Buy Into These 10 Social Media Myths | SocialComputingMagazine.com - Eric Brantner lists 10 myths often associated with social media. Important food for thought for anyone planning their social marketing or community strategies.

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• Eduslide.com - Eduslide offers either a public learning content management system (LCMS) to create, upload and control access to e-learning content, or a download of the open source version.
• Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolves | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - Dion reviews the power of open API's: "Late last week an important milestone for the Internet was quietly reached as the number of available open Web APIs crossed the 1,000 mark, according to the popular API tracking service, Programmable Web."

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• Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer is a Data Center - Marc Benioff (of Salesforce.com) delivers his definition of Web 3.0 (cringe): “The new rallying cry of Web 3.0 is that anyone can innovate, anywhere. Code is written, collaborated on, debugged, tested, deployed, and run in the cloud. When innovation is untethered from the time and capital constraints of infrastructure, it can truly flourish.”
• Building networks for learning - A great summary of resources regarding the learning applications of social networking.
• Clive Thompson on Real-World Social Networks vs. Facebook ‘Friends’ - A great piece from Clive Thompson on “reality mining” that demonstrates the importance of “wirearchy” over “hierarchy” in organizations. From the article: “the crucial person who routes news among team members — isn’t the manager. “The manager is almost always peripheral,” Waber says. “It’s some random guy.” And that person is usually overworked and overstressed.”

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• OUseful Info: Education 2.0 Business Models - Though it does not directly address "Education 2.0" business models, this page provides a nice summary of different resources on the monetization aspect of Web 2.0.
• Taking social networks abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan - Great post on the importance of "society" in social networking from Serkan Toto at TechCrunch
• Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - Dion weighs in on the current state of cloud computing. A great summary article on the topic!
• Six Degrees of Wikipedia - An interesting page put together by Stephen Dolan does an analysis relationships between articles in of Wikipedia. Try out the "find shortest path" section - interesting. Google recently announced that there are actually an average of 6.6 degrees of separation between the billions of pages they index on the Web. It is indeed a small world (wide web).

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These are my links for April 16th through April 17th:

• Real People Don’t Have Time for Social Media - ReadWriteWeb - This post ties in with my concerns about social fatigue. The vast majority of the working world has to work instead of twitter. But, they will need to have a strong social graph to improve their work performance. Balance is key.
• SaaS is driving the world’s 60 fastest-growing software companies - Perhaps SaaS will become the dominant model even before 2012? So what would "learning as a service" look like? Perhaps the EPS model opened up via APIs to be consumed and mashed up as needed?

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