New York Times has an article published today, entitled How Privacy Vanishes Online, discussing how advanced computer systems can pretty much pinpoint to who and where a query came from. Computer scientists who have more advanced algorithms and tools at their disposal are now able to tell who a user is even if that user has used, in what the user thinks, complete anonymity. Read More
Piggybacking off of my latest entry on social bookmarking, I have decided to add another bookmarking site into my repertoire. Diigo is such a powerful research and knowledge sharing too, especially for my students as a technology teacher. Perhaps the most powerful knowledge-sharing tool, apart fromTwitter. Do not get me wrong, I still love some of the other bookmarking tools out there, such as delicious, but Diigo’s network and groups are extremely intuitive and offer a myriad of features that other bookmarking sites do not. Read More
Jeff Pulver, of pulver.com, makes some interesting points on fora.tv regarding social media, namely explaining how social media is really a change in communication. In many ways I agree with Pulver on how we are at the beginning of communication change and this evolution in communication has yet to be capitalized on and we are not entirely sure which direction it is headed. Thoughts? Link to the video below. Read More
Google announced earlier this week a new social networking app called Google Buzz. After having it “installed” in my Gmail account I decided to give it a spin. After logging into Gmail I was perplexed to how to use Google Buzz. Google was telling me it was in Gmail account, but nothing was showing up. Was this a glitch or did it need sometime to just “activate” itself in my account. Read More
Over the past day I have stumbled across numerous articles predicting where the Web and social media will be within 5 years. Two articles that happen to stick out are, The Future of the Web: Where will it be in Five Years? and Six Social Media Trends for 2010. Both articles are very compelling in presenting where we will be and of course my next question, as an educator, is how will and when will this impact education? Read More
