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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 10/16/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

October 16, 2005. Folksonomy' Carries Classifieds Beyond SWF and 'For Sale' - New York Times. NETWORKING sites on the Web started as online personal ads, and most are still built around the desire to meet people. But there is a new, rapidly growing generation of networking sites built around purposes, not people.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. My initial interest in researching the social web stemmed from some early work my colleagues and I did around wikis and blogs in medical education in 2005-2006. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Even learning is miscellaneous

Clive on Learning

A second example relates to a series of courses I developed between 2003 and 2005 with a colleague of mine called David Kori. And, of course, this principle is massively extended online as users collaborate to create folksonomies to sort the millions of items to be found in flickr, del.icio.us, YouTube and endless other sites.