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The other day, I started seeing status updates of colors come across the News Feed in Facebook referring to the bra people were wearing themselves. It quickly devolved to guys messing around and posting things like “diamond studded”. Not only was it TMI (did my professional colleagues [...]

Yesterday, there was an earthquake and instead of Stopping, Dropping, and Covering as I had done many times during earthquake drills in elementary and middle and probably even high school, I just stopped… and then I checked the USGS website for the report. And when I got on Facebook and Twitter, I was not [...]

Logged into my Twitter account today to find a new lists feature available to me (it seems it’s not rolled out to everyone yet). Twitter is following the tagging trend and you can now categorize your own Twitter subscriptions. Though similar to Facebook’s feature in allowing you to create lists of friends, I [...]

I joined Twitter almost two years ago, used it for about 4 months and took a break for 5 months until I was able to link up my Twitter updates to update my Facebook status. Since then I’ve been hearing about impact of Twitter like getting a fellow Cal bear out of foreign prison [...]

As more and more of the people I know and the people they know are having kids, I’ve seen more photos popping up on Facebook of newborns and childhood moments. And even though some kids don’t even know how to type, they already have Facebook profiles! It seems the parents are registering their [...]

When people post photos or other content on Facebook, chances are they’re not thinking about what Facebook can do with them. People are freaking about it now, though (again). The reality is that much of this stuff isn’t news; Facebook has always claimed rights to your photos and content.
Here’s Facebook’s recent [...]

Joining the evil forces of the RIAA and MPAA , Hasbro has sued the makers of Scrabulous convincing them to pull their app from Facebook by legal bullying. … In the meantime, according to gawker.com , it seems that you can still play it at their website … not sure how long that will last before Hasbro squeezes them there, too.

If you pay for AT&T / SBC / Yahoo (whatever the hell they’re calling it today) DSL Broadband, you have a free Pro subscription to Flickr (normally $24.95/yr). Among the benefits, you get unlimited storage and unlimited uploads which means you can archive your full high resolution photos (and let friends download those high [...]

I was invited to sit in on the first ever college class on Facebook: Creating Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook taught by Dr. BJ Fogg from Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and Dave McClure of 500 Hats. With over 100 people registered for the new course, even a new location change [...]

Last month, I attended the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Fall Focus Session titled Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World. (Educause is “a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.” Educause is also the sole registrar for .edu domains.)
The focus [...]