Upside Learning

JULY 12, 2011

Unlike Facebook or Twitter where one accesses the ‘firehose’ of data that one subscribes to and is dependent on the Friends/Following, and where users mostly use features like groups/lists etc to sort out noise from the stream, Plus uses a different approach and lets users create ‘circles’ that allow them to separate streams.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Social 267

Upside Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2010

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. But exactly how the digital wallet will become main stream is still up in the air. Facebook Brings Facial Recognition To Photo Tagging.

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Media Augmented Reality Technology Learning Technologies 196

Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In continuation to our weekly roundup of the best links shared on Twitter and Facebook, here is a collection of our top 15 links from the last week, each accompanied by a quick brief. The constant stream of stimuli offered by new technology poses a profound new challenge to focusing and learning. Read it here. Read it here.

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Social Networks Google Docs Technology Learning Technologies 199

Upside Learning

JUNE 21, 2012

A learning experience could happen outside any form of learning/training event and could be as simple as accessing, say, Facebook. Tin Can focuses on activity logging to create a personal learning stream which is beyond the boundaries of a learning system within an organization. How will Tin Can help? What about data privacy?

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ADL Summary SCORM Streaming 243

Upside Learning

JUNE 9, 2009

The stress of just how much to share is central to the spy thriller genre in which various bait-and-switches, mirroring and foreshadowing techniques are similar to the feeling you get piecing together some-one’s life from a stream of terse messages. An unexamined life is not worth spying on. Or so the designers hope.

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Twitter Games Player Asynchronous 157

Upside Learning

JUNE 9, 2009

The stress of just how much to share is central to the spy thriller genre in which various bait-and-switches, mirroring and foreshadowing techniques are similar to the feeling you get piecing together some-one’s life from a stream of terse messages. An unexamined life is not worth spying on. Or so the designers hope.

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Twitter Games Player Asynchronous 100