Schoology is a startup that seeks to address many of the pain points of the LMS: Schoology is easy to use. It's free. It offers data portability. It encourages communication and collaboration with look and feel of contemporary social networking sites rather than the bulletin boards of circa 1996. But it isn't simply a social networking tool. Schoology provides the functionality of its big name competitors - Blackboard, Moodle.
The recently released ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology gives some excellent insights into trends in college students' technology ownership, perceptions, skills, and habits.
Until recently no one had taken it upon themselves to do concentrated, outsider examination of the News Feed - Top News versus Most Recent (both are filtered) - to see what's going on. Tom Weber staged a one-month experiment to unpack the algorithm, and came out with 10 of Facebook's secrets - and if you're crafty, a way to game the News Feed to ensure that you come up more often than others.
Search for your site URL and the results displayed will un-shorten all shortened links in tweets that link to your site. It does not matter what URL shortening service someone uses when tweeting about your site, BackTweets will resolve all shortened URL’s to display the ones pointing to your site.
defacto x GmbH: Erlangen (ots) - Online-Umfrage unter rund 1.500 Usern / Social-Web-Plattformen mit ganz unterschiedlichen Nutzungsmotiven / Mobile-User länger online und mit höherer Bereitschaft,
In Activity Streams, verbs are their own objects, and the variety of actions that can be represented is limited only by the standard itself. Providers can also use verbs outside the standard, taking the chance that they'll eventually be incorporated, or that a downstream client could parse them anyway. Here's a list of the verbs incorporated in the Activity Streams standard so far:
Mit zunehmender Verbreitung von Social Networks fragmentieren nicht mehr nur Handyanrufe und SMS unseren Alltag, sondern auch Statusmeldungen und im Chat lauernde Kollegen. Auch im Hinblick auf verfeinerte Möglichkeiten zur Analyse des Verhaltens von Mobilnutzern erfordert der sichere Umgang mit Social Networks das Herausbilden einer neuen Kommunikationskultur. Teil sechs der futurezone.ORF.at-Serie über das Soziale Netz.
How do you decide whether a technological development is significant or not? Here's a simple rule: if the mainstream media — as represented by, say, Daily Mail columnists — are baffled by, or contemptuous of, it then it's probably worth paying attention to.
Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs. Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Gephi is open-source and free.
Laut einer Forsa-Umfrage sind rund 30 Millionen Bundesbürger Mitglied mindestens einer Community. Dabei geht es den Nutzern in erster Linie um Kontaktpflege mit Freunden und Bekannten.
Yammer is opening up its microbogging platform. In "Yammer Community" people may now create a community without the requirement that an email address be associated with a particular domain.
"Socializing doesn’t scale. Once a group reaches a certain size, each participant starts to feel anonymous again, and the person they’re following — who once seemed proximal, like a friend — now seems larger than life and remote." And that's why we don't want to run a University-wide Tornado server
A US study (http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx) has indicated that younger internet users are losing interest in blogging and switching to shorter and more mobile forms of communication. The number of 12 to 17-year-olds in the US who blog has halved to 14% since 2006, according to a survey for the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
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C. Scholz, M. Atzmueller, und G. Stumme. Proc. Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Boston, MA, USA, IEEE Computer Society, (2012)