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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).

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

Attempts at the hierarchical organisation of information on web sites is confounded by the fact that most people now find content through searching and by following links from other content - the home page becoming less and less relevant. Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/20/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content - UI. Folksonomies, a new user-driven approach to organizing information, may help alleviate some of the challenges of taxonomies.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Web 2.0 (..)

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kowabunga dude!

The Learning Circuits

before rss, news aggregators, blogrolls, technorati tags and folksonomies, most "webbies" would wander around from site to site, following whatever link caught their imagination. do you secretly sneak off to you computer at work to hang ten hoping to find a site with a wicked cool design that blows you away?

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

Big Dog, Little Dog

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. What is a hype cycle?

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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. That is, the technologies that dominated educational technology in the 1970s were technologies that were primarily teacher controlled and oriented toward instruction. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.