Malcolm Gladwell says that everything has a Tipping Point , that point at which a virus goes epidemic, when the hip new thing goes mainstream. Think Uggs . Well, my Facebook world has just tipped. I'm not talking about the quantity of my friends, but rather the breadth and depth. In the past month, I have friended or been friended by: my 73 year old mother (we like to play Scrabble) my 16 year old niece (she has WAY more friends than I do ... the name of eLearning has just gotten plain weird. Has your Facebook tipped?

I think I found a use for Facebook - for me.... The start of a personal toolkit.... I'm finding that there are interesting applications within Facebook that allow me to post items for feedback, play with new ideas, and share cool info ... importantly, for me, Facebook allows me to access stuff from 1 place while creating on the appropriate tools (links hosted on del.i.cious, accessed through Facebook; blog through Blogger, access through Facebook; videos on google Video, accessed through Facebook). As soon as I can get my Google Shared Item feed working, I'll be a real happy camper. I know my ...

My great Facebook experiment continues..... I am starting to notice the same phenomenon that Karyn sees in her Web 2.0 participation ...the bleeding between one's professional and personal life. In my case, the bleeding went the opposite direction. What started as a professional Facebook profile is slowly being invaded by my real-life friends and acquaintances. I am also seeing more weird tools and gadgets being sent my direction, shockingly by my professional friends - most recently, SuperPoke. For instance - I sent Karyn a beer. Not a real beer (sadly), but it's better ...

Facebook buys Parakey Facebook has just acquired an Operating System. A WHAT? Why in the heck, would a social networking company buy an OS company? From INSIDE FACEBOOK So what they also get are the 2 brains behind the creation of Firefox. Firefox's incredible flexibility and openness is what made it attractive to the Facebook folks. Facebook ... hanging out at Facebook, so if you want to get connected with people and become productive get into Facebook. Why are people hanging out at Facebook? Because that's where their friends, and colleagues are hanging out. And why are ...

One step closer to the Facebook LMS: This little Facebook app is TV Trivia Quiz. I was surprised at how many questions I could answer. I was also pretty successful utilizing the theory, "when in doubt, B". That worked a lot for me. I could also guess many of the questions based on the image and poorly written distractors...but that's beside the ... if tool makers like Articulate Quizmaker , QuestionMark and other testing creation tools are considering a Facebook ... , there is something very cool happening in the Facebook space and I'm not sure it takes that much programming muscle ...

I hadn't intended to sign up with Facebook . I'm not sure whether anyone does. But Bill Brandon, the editor of ... revealed about myself in my profile, but then what the hell. I had no idea what to expect from Facebook and, a couple ... sense I would like Facebook to demonstrate more value than other online communities that I have participated in. More ... many people I know are not bloggers and probably never will be. I'd like Facebook to keep me in contact with people I ... Facebook has grown by 270% since June 2006, putting it in a clear second place behind MySpace, which also grew but ...

OK...so help me out here....someone smarter than me (big number) help me understand the difference in architectural requirements and transactions that go on in say a social network like facebook with millions of users, probably hundreds of thousands of concurrent users, all executing millions of transactions from chat to photo uploads to quiz taking...with those of an LMS or an LCMS. I really want to understand issues around scaling, etc.  Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

If you are a faculty member or administrative staff at a college or university then you might be tempted to check out Academia.edu . Probably the simplest way I can describe it is to call it "Facebook for Academics." All institutions are organized on the top level of a 'tree' (i.e. an organizational chart). The second level of the chart shows the departments within the institution and the third level shows the individual faculty and staff. Once you add yourself to the respective tree branch, you can select your research interests, display a photo and post a professional profile ...

Stephen Downes picked up my post on Facebook As a Learning Platform . He commented: To be clear, I do not think that Facebook itself is really a learning environment. It's a large, centralized piece of software that is getting creaky ... . I also feel like Facebook is a bit creaky and as Thomas Vanderwal's recent post Facebook for Business or LinkedIn Gets More Valuable points out, as you use Facebook more and have more friends, it seems to get harder to use. Linked in doesn't seem to suffer from that. All of that said, Facebook is surprising me in terms of how well it works as ...

A mistitled article - found via Bill Ives on the FastForward blog - Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Corporate Intranet. The real focus of the article is how Serena Software has adopted a practice called Facebook Fridays: Each Friday, employees are granted one hour of personal time to spend on their Facebook profiles and connect with co-workers, customers, family and friends. This initiative will start today and will be rolled out in 18 countries where the company ... helpful to have a CEO say things like: "Social networking tools like Facebook can bring us back together, help us ...

Browse More Applications Courses on Facebook is for students and instructors Students, With Courses on Facebook You Can: Add Your Courses and Activities Manage and Share Your Weekly Schedule Search For Your Classmates Create Class Discussions Upload and Share Files Bring Your Class Together on Facebook Click "Add ... available to answer any questions you might have. coursesonfacebook@gmail.com Facebook is providing links to these ... :01pm on September 10th, 2008 I cannot seem to change my courses on the new facebook. Every time I click on Edit, I ...

Found via Publishing Enterprise Content To Facebook - Alfresco - a content management system has provided hooks for it to be used to deliver content to Facebook users. This model, where Facebook becomes a platform for application development has some really interesting aspects. However, the open aspect of OpenSocial likely will win out in the long run. Especially with some of the pain of developing Facebook apps.

If you've not seen this, there's a Facebook application by Worklight called Workbook that represents an overlay to turn Facebook into an Enterprise Social Network application. This is something I've been expecting for a while based on some conversations with large organizations who planned to use Facebook as their social network. WorkBook combines all the capabilities of Facebook with all the controls of a corporate environment, including integration with ... Facebook, with the WorkBook overlay, with no danger of information leaking outside the organization or access ...

Facebook with one-click. For a little interactive introduction to Facebook integration, Kyle's screencast should do ...

2007 Facebook Enterprise Application : eLearning Technology If youve not seen this, theres a Facebook application by Worklight called Workbook that represents an overlay to turn Facebook into an Enterprise Social Network application. This is something Ive been expecting for a while based on some conversations with large organizations who planned to use Facebook as their social network. WorkBook combines all the capabilities of Facebook with all the controls of a corporate environment, ...

... out be received? Brent Schlenker invited me into Facebook. I finally got around to opening an account. There's lots ... yet. I suspect this is because Facebook does not solve any particular problem I currently have. Blogging, thus far ... play with me. I hesitate to spam the other people on my e-mail address book if they are not already in Facebook. If ...

Data can tell amazing stories. Just listen to Hans Rosling from the TED conference and you'll get what I mean. ComScore has released their data on Social Networking today and it's pretty incredible. Facebook.com has increased 270% since June 2006 . I knew the buzz was growing about it over the last year and so I tried it out. Now I'm hooked. Its LinkedIn and Facebook only for me. Okay...maybe I still Twitter a little bit ;-) ...

Facebook seems to be coming up everywhere the past few weeks. The most recent, which finally got me to post, was a Stephen Downes post - I'm Majoring in Facebook, How about You? He points us to a Fortune Magazine article that describes a Stanford class being offered by BJ Fogg that studies Facebook as a platform: "Facebook is the most convenient and ... nearby nod in agreement. The class has each student creating applications in Facebook and presenting to potential investors ... improvement through technology. Why is Facebook so hot right now? I see two main reasons which I give below, ...

... issues I find myself having with Facebook. Just on a (much) larger scale. And I don't have people asking me for venture capital. 6+ months into the Great Facebook Experiment, here's what I am finding: - Personal friends are now slowly creeping into Facebook. Part of the upswing is a result of the pending 20 year high school reunion. This is a good thing ... friends are dominantly at Facebook. Hmmmm.... - I agree with Ted - Facebook is getting way too cluttered. I still ... yourself dreading yet another email from Facebook announcing something that you have to log into Facebook to deal ...

Organizations". Accept they call it Facebook, and/or LinkedIn or any of the other social networking tools available today ... organization." Or maybe you are. How do you know for sure? Have you friended your employee in Facebook ? Are ...

Wilfred Rubens who keeps on delivering great insights on eLearning on his blog (Dutch) has directed me to the superb wiki of George Siemens on Facebook and its benefits as a social network service. This wiki was one of the results of a workshop he did on facebook at the University of Manitoba. The wiki gives a nice overview of when which social network was started. After that he zooms into Facebook with a good analyses on pro's and cons if you want to use it in a corporate or other environment for educational reasons. He also added a link to Danah Boyd who writes and ...

... things: split up everything of value and leave the past behind while moving on without too much of a hassle. Facebook and ... let go of those once treasured items and you go on. With facebook this is no longer possible! Ex-partners can now suddenly pop-up and start facebooking as well. They ofcourse add shelfari in which they mention the books they have read ... push it underneath our sweater or coat while exiting quitely). But some of my friends are having facebook-divorce-shivers, inspiring though, I never looked at facebook this way. Anyone interested in researching the subject? Anyone have ...

Tony Karrer found this little gem... WorkLight. So now you can use all the power of Facebook as your company social network. I'm sure there's a militant IT manager out there somewhere willing to tell me why this will NEVER work. So, let's hear it. Why can't a tool like this be successful as the basis for your companies social network? I'm not exactly sure how WorkLight does its magic, but perhaps anyone out there that's tried this out could blog about your experience and help spread the word. I'd love to hear about your experience. Powered by ScribeFire .

There are something like 4.5m Facebook users in the UK, a 300% increase on the year. There are another 10 million MySpace ... seems credible - maybe I misheard!). The average Facebook user has 150 friends (suddenly I feel unloved). The average ... light, Facebook is alleviating what could be a much worse problem. Another area of controversy among the group last night was the degree to which Facebook blurs the distinction between our personal and private lives: work colleagues are all ... of personal liberty and privacy. Sorry, but becoming a Facebook member is voluntary, the information that you disclose ...

... identified the key technology-related teaching and learning issues in higher education for 2007. Opinion: Facebook ...

... the people who connected to me suggested we might want to do the same on Facebook and Twitter. This really got me ... connected with in the future (PANs). However, this is not really the case with the way I use Facebook and Twitter. Both of ... Facebook, it's much the same. I have my friends who I want to get together with, see what they are doing, have conversations with. Both Twitter and Facebook really are my CANs and FANs. In some ways, the goal on both is to stay more ... . It's nice when we can get a bit of that ongoing conversation via Facebook or Twitter. Yes, I could theoretically open ...

I've been getting some amazing comments on Facebook. Too much food for thought!!!! For those (like me) who hate ... term) of Facebook that really holds no appeal. I blog and read blogs that appeal to me. I'm active in subject-focused ... have written, I don't see a lot of learning in the purely social nature of Facebook On a certain level, I agree. Facebook has an overwhelming number of gadgets and widgets. And I am also going to go on record stating that I HATE HATE HATE that I always have to install yet another widget on my facebook page when people contact me (usually by ...

TheStar.com | Post-secondary | Student faces Facebook consequences Student faces Facebook consequences ... Ryerson student Chris Avenir helped run a Facebook study group for one of his engineering courses ... college in Arkansas, is kicked out of school because he posted pictures on Facebook in which he was dressed in drag ... College in Boston for posting his critique of a campus police officer on Facebook. The action marks the first time a ...

... hurt the economy. The Fakebook Generation - The New York Times Facebook purports to be a place for human ... dangers of "Facebook stalking" at a library computer - the person whose profile you're perusing might be right ...