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Sep 03

Learn to Adapt Links for September 3rd

by Jeff Kelly

Web 2.0 Corporate Access : eLearning Technology - Steve Karrer and the eLearningGuild compile some statistics about corporate worker access to Web 2.0 applications. Not sure the scope validity of the study but it is in line with what we are seeing at Web 2.0 University
Six Degrees of Separation Is Now Three - More interesting data as we move from the "information age" to the "connected age". From the post:
"According to the study, the average person is now connected by just three degrees within a shared “interest” or social group instead of six. In fact, it found that people are usually a part of three main networks: family, friendship, and work."

Aug 18

by Jeff Kelly

TV remains top source of news even as online grows -
Why We’re Failing in Math and Science - O’Reilly Radar - A great post from Tim O'Reilly reminding us how America is "dumbing down" just when we need to be building education and intelligence in order to compete in the global marketplace.
Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?: Scientific American - SciAm considers how new Web behaviors are changing our ideas of privacy and ponders if "Existing law should be extended to allow some privacy protection for things that people say and do in what would have previously been considered the public domain."

Aug 06

by Jeff Kelly

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.”

Aug 05

by Jeff Kelly

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).

Jul 28

by Jeff Kelly

Predict The Future On WashingtonPost.com - Jason Kincaid's brief post highlight how Predictify's adoption by newspaper's is a reminder that “old media” is willing to embrace the interactivity afforded by the web.
How to Keep Up with the Semantic Space « Shepherd’s Pi - Lewis Shepherd's great post pulling together a host of current thoughts and resources about the Semantic Web. It includes some resources from Henry Story's "My Semantic Web Blogroll"
Twelve best practices for online customer communities | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - Dion weighs in on the "the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online"
50 Steps to Establishing a Consistent Social Media Practice | chrisbrogan.com - Nice post from Chris Brogan summarizing steps to put a social media strategy into practice for your company.
Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com - Interesting article on how the Internet is changing reading styles and, therefore(?) learning styles.