Open Social How To

One minute I’m checking messages in Facebook, the next I’m frolicking through olive orchards in Sardinia with John Borthwick wearing an astronaut suit. Oh what a world we live in… More compelling than Scrabulous, Unype is a Facebook social application that lets people see, chat and Skype with each other in Google Earth. Unype works with the Open Social API, so you can interact with people from Facebook, Ning, Orkut, hi5 and more to come. See Twitter messages and Upcoming event overlays too. Y

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By Frosty Wooldridge In this third and final interview, Michael Folkerth’s book: “THE BIGGEST LIE EVER BELIEVED” exposes America’s greatest crisis—unending growth. Trying to corner Clinton, Obama, Romney and McCain into addressing America’s immigration invasion proves harder than arm wrestling an octopus! Trying to get our apathetic American public to force definitive answers from this presidential quartet proves tougher than bringing an Egyptian mummy back to life. Once the full impact of a

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes. It is a great interview! My brother mentioned to me a few weeks ago seeing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes.1 This interview by Lesley Stahl with Mark didn’t disappoint. The interview can be found in Kara Swisher article “Facebook: The Entire ‘60 Minutes’ Segment”2 Unlike Kara, I didn’t expect a “big wet kiss”, but Kara always compliments her excellent journalism with cynical editorial — for some reason I really enjoy it. Kara also compl

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Lots of activity in the last week on the distributed social networking front. Matt and co. at Automattic released Prologue, a WordPress theme (GPLv2) which creates a twitter-like experience based on posts to a WordPress blog. (It’s already been updated once). Check out the Prologue Demo Blog for a sense of how the theme works. This could easily be used to create a kind of workgroup twitter, and given the number of different plugins / mechanisms for creating a blog post it could be extended

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Welcome to the NetGeners.Net course and this blog! January 31st, 2008 It was quite a bit of work to pull together the different bits and pieces of the NetGeners.Net space, but now it looks like we have a good base for the start of the course. As the course is only scheduled to start on March 17th we invite you to provide us some feedback on what you think could be improved, to report bugs (means to tell us what still doesn’t work as it should), to suggest further learning projects, or to sub

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I’m sitting in Frankfurt Airport (FRA) waiting for my connecting flight to San Francisco which will let me attend Social Graph FooCamp 2008. According to the cast of people assembled on the wiki it seems that its going to be lots of fun and hopefully very productive. I’ll be arriving to SF after noonish. If you want to meet, say hi, or anything else, Email me through the contact page. Since this is a FooCamp, I do have a very rough on the edges topic to discuss and bring up. I wanted to writ

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What has Mozilla Corporation’s chief contribution been? The Firefox browser? Or the email client Thunderbird? I would say neither. It has been its model of developer participation—of managing innovation outside corporate borders and passing on decision making to its community of developers. 40 percent of its code is not from employees—a staggering statistic if you consider that the company’s revenue-sharing arrangement with Google for searches that originate in Firefox delivered revenues three

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I want to consider a distinction between free open source software, and free and open content.   Teemu Leinonen brings us this picture of the evolution of educational technology:     Leinonen describes our current state as social software and free and open content. I think we confuse the issue be assuming that all social software is free open source software. The important components in our classrooms and for our learners are the availability of social software together with free and open co

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Something’s not right with this! People on social security don’t get stimulus, but illegals do? Watch This Video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1201723934 Congress Poised to Give Tax Rebates to Illegal Aliens Call Your Senators Now! January 30, 2008 The economic stimulus package traveling through Congress right now does nothing to stop the IRS from issuing rebate checks to illegal aliens. Please call your Senators now and urge them to take action! Yesterday, the House of Representa

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Civic Entrepreneurship, Community Informatics and the Gift Economy January 30th, 2008 I composed a short list of some essential readings that reflect a world-view appropriate to the Internet Era, I shared it with friends studying Community Informatics and Civic Entrepreurship, two domains seeking a better world. Since I recently catalogued (part of) my personal library using LibraryThing, it makes sense to share these here as well (as they are part of my virtual library). These writings prov

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