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Not so tasty now

Learning with e's

Matthew 5:13 (New Testament) The Delicious social bookmarking site used to be one of my favourite social media tools. When Yahoo bought Delicious back in 2005 for an estimated $18 million, we all expected great things, and we got them. This post from Pulp Tech is particularly critical of the new Delicious. Not any more.

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Giving it all away

Learning with e's

The killer apps for me though, have to be Delicious and Twitter - both give me the ability to make my content highly visible to anyone who might be interested. Increasingly, due to the good offices of Creative Commons, much of the content on the web can be legally repurposed or appropriated for other use. open scholarship.

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Tools of the trade

Learning with e's

Social tagging sites such as Diigo and Delicious can offer this kind of filing cabinet organisation, but so too can wikis and other collaborative tools, which would I imagine, raise the level of engagement and profiling of individuals who organised and shared their content in this manner. Unported License.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

tools include popular applications such as blogs, wikis and podcasting; social networking sites such as FaceBook and LinkedIn; photo and videosharing services such as Flickr and YouTube; familiar utilities such as RSS feeds, social tagging (e.g. Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. geotagging). Winston, B.

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Social enzymes

Learning with e's

When we take what others have created (thanks to creative commons and a loosening of the grip or ownership and copyright) and we repurpose them for our own use, our own informal learning. Tags: cyborg blog Memes wiki social enzymes learning rhizome Twitter. we are creating new footprints for the next informal learner to follow.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: My Top Ten Tools for 2009

Learning Visions

So easy to clip from articles online, jot down to do lists, and tag and organize it all. Delicious Tag articles as you go. Its delicious. Wendy Wickham This work by Cammy Bean is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 I can take and access my notes anywhere. United States License.

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Slugs and snails and social enzymes

Learning with e's

When we take what others have created (thanks to creative commons and a loosening of the grip or ownership and copyright) and we repurpose them for our own use, our own informal learning. Tags: YouTube social networking blog wiki Twitter Web 2.0 we are creating new footprints for the next informal learner to follow.