"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
Student-driven revision/moan group for BS3035 on Facebook. Interesting to see evidence of concerted email campaign to elicit information about exam questions.
14.5% of all online time is spent on MSN Live Messenger - 14.5% of 27 billion total hours. The next biggest service is Facebook at at 5.2% with YouTube coming in third at 4.4% (Google's biggest slice of the online pie.) Facebook climbs 200% in usage since the same time last year.
The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools have been awarded $12.2 million to build a social/collaborative network for scientists and researchers. The idea is to make it easier to find research and like-minded researchers in an effort to speed new discoveries.