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Questions, Answers, Quora, Asymmetric Follow and does this make us Human?

Mark Oehlert

Regardless of where Quora ends up, either as the MySpace or the Facebook of the Q&A world, I think the rapid rise of this site and others, brings up a couple of powerful dynamics that largely go unnoticed.at in which a social network user can have many people following them without a need for reciprocity. LinkedIN Answers.

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Tools of my trade

Learning with e's

Facebook - I tried several other social networking tools before Facebook , including Myspace and Bebo, and toyed with LinkedIn like everyone else. Don't forget to comment today :-) Search Engine - I almost always use Google, but increasingly other search engines are on the horizon for me including Bing and Yahoo.

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Web 2.0 Tools, Networks and Community (Individuals vs. Collective)

Tony Karrer

Traditional online community mechanisms (email lists, groups) are joined by a wide variety of publishing mechanisms (blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc.) This forms a big network of people linked first through content and eventually directly (in person or via social networking).

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Humannet at Cisco

Jay Cross

Last week, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo!, MySpace, Comcast, and other players huddled around a conference table in the offices of Six Apart in San Francisco to discuss activity streams. Driving Results Through Social Networks by Rob Cross and Robert J.

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I want to facilitate online discussions but how do I choose the right platform?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The book Digital habitats of Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John Smith has been an input, as well as the blogpost by Christian Kreutz: a starter for development organisations engaging in online networks. Opening a group on an existing social network sites such as Facebook or LinkedIn. Possibility 1. What is it? What is it?

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Infographic: How Google has changed what it means to do research

eFront

Licklider of MIT has “Galactic Network” concept, a globally. 1994: Development of first popular search engines (Alta Vista, Lycos, Excite and Yahoo). Often seen as the first social networking site. Paid placement ranking: Goto morphed into Overture and Yahoo. 2003: Myspace launched. 2003: Myspace launched.

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Infographic: How Google has changed what it means to do research

eFront

Licklider of MIT has “Galactic Network” concept, a globally. 1994: Development of first popular search engines (Alta Vista, Lycos, Excite and Yahoo). Often seen as the first social networking site. Paid placement ranking: Goto morphed into Overture and Yahoo. 2003: Myspace launched. 2003: Myspace launched.

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