Learning Visions

JULY 10, 2007

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The Real World, SecondLife and FaceBook/MySpace Over the past few weeks Ive conducted about 17 interviews with current college students and recent graduates. A couple of people also had MySpace accounts. MySpace is seen as being too "creepy". All women. This is a main way of staying connected to friends.

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Mark Oehlert

MAY 13, 2008

Players in this arena (although not exactly all in the same role or capacity) include Facebook Connect , the Data Portability Project (of which MySpace is a member ), and Googles Open Social. That white paper would be a prize itself. The comments are quite interesting too. where I am linking to all the Lewin stuff I find.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 28, 2007

o IBM has a MySpace-like social network calledBluePages. Each tag is linked back to the tagger’s BluePagesprofile, and clicking on the tagger’s name lets a user send the personan IM o IBM owns more than 50 islands in Second Life. This minimizes inappropriate behavior. o IBM employees use a social bookmarking program called DogEar.

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