If you’ve seen one of the “In Plain English” videos created by Common Craft, you’ll remember it. Using basic tools like paper, scissors, drawings and a creative mind, they create videos that explain complex ideas.
If you’re wondering what these topics are and have a few minutes to spare, you will be rewarded:
Twitter
Online Photo Sharing
Blogs
Social [...]
Vollee is working to bring Second Life to your handheld. Amazing. Second Life will not work on most computers because of it higher requirements. To get it to work in a mobile environment seems questionable. However, this company has demonstrated their version and it seems to be true to the Second [...]
Do you have stuff all over the Web? Maybe a blog, a Flickr account, a MySpace account, a FaceBook account, a YouTube account, Twitter, follow many RSS feeds? Would you like all of this in one place? That’s what social aggregation sites promise to provide.
Although relatively new, I’ve seen Iminta and FriendFeed. [...]
In January, MySpace and 49 attorneys general agreed to several changes aimed at protecting children and teenager users of their service. The agreement states:
MySpace and the attorneys general will:
share the goal of designing and implementing technologies and features that will make MySpace safer.
meet regularly to discuss improvements relevant to minors’ safety on MySpace.
support initiatives for [...]
If you’re not sure why photo sharing sites like Flickr are so big or how they work, here’s a brief video that explains it “in Plain English.”
[from Tame the Web]
How many social networks do you belong to? The three I use are MySpace, FaceBook, and LinkedIn. What is frustrating to me is that more and more social networks are cropping up and my friends and colleagues are all in different networks. Does that mean I need to be in all of them? I have [...]
Michael Stephens has followed last year’s Library Technology Reports — Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software — with another — Web 2.0 & Libraries: Trends and Technologies. According to Stephens:
. . . we’ll revisit some of the social tools presented in Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software, address [...]
MySpace is beta testing software that will allow parents to keep track of their kids’ user of the service. ParentCare:
notifies the user that the software is in use
sits in the System Tray
tracks any uses of MySpace from any account on that computer
allows you to view events
I haven’t used this, but it looks like it is [...]
