Tony Karrer

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Facebook as a Learning Platform

Tony Karrer

Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about You? The class has each student creating applications in Facebook and presenting to potential investors. Why is Facebook so hot right now?

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Facebook Alfresco Platform

Tony Karrer

Found via Publishing Enterprise Content To Facebook - Alfresco - a content management system has provided hooks for it to be used to deliver content to Facebook users. This model, where Facebook becomes a platform for application development has some really interesting aspects.

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Facebook Platform

Tony Karrer

Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform. He commented: To be clear, I do not think that Facebook itself is really a learning environment. All of that said, Facebook is surprising me in terms of how well it works as a platform. Linked in doesn't seem to suffer from that. Great example, Luis.

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Facebook Fridays

Tony Karrer

A mistitled article - found via Bill Ives on the FastForward blog - Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Corporate Intranet. Although my guess is that you need to do some seeding of ideas and techniques to make it effective. A corporate culture that fosters a sense of community and fun will ultimately help us get more done.

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Facebook Enterprise Application

Tony Karrer

If you've not seen this, there's a Facebook application by Worklight called Workbook that represents an overlay to turn Facebook into an Enterprise Social Network application. This is something I've been expecting for a while based on some conversations with large organizations who planned to use Facebook as their social network.

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LinkedIn Facebook Twitter - Different Connection Style

Tony Karrer

Interestingly, one of the people who connected to me suggested we might want to do the same on Facebook and Twitter. However, this is not really the case with the way I use Facebook and Twitter. In Facebook, it's much the same. Both Twitter and Facebook really are my CANs and FANs. This really got me thinking.

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OpenSocial Platform

Tony Karrer

Well, we finally are starting to hear what Google's anticipated response to the fact that Facebook Platform and Facebook as a Learning Platform. Further, you face the prospect of having Facebook rework aspects that you are leveraging. del.icio.us, flickr, MyBlogLog, Facebook, LinkedIn, your email, discussion groups, etc.).

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