Archive for July, 2006

The Facebook story

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

MySpace has become the defacto community of communities.

In contrast Facebook has focused on building a vertical community.

Over the last 2 years Facebook has grown from 3 friends to an organisation of 130.

Todate 3k colleges, 22k high schools and 10k corporations are plugged into Facebook.

Traffic generated by its 8m user base ranks it the 7th […]

EU eLearning Conference 2006

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

The EU eLearning Conference 2006 was held earlier this week in Espoo, Finland.

Two presentations in particular were of note.

Teemu Arina spoke about how the social web supports informal learning.

I consider the conversational social web, shifts in industrial production logic and post-industrial knowledge work practices as important issues in understanding what is going on and to […]