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Thou shalt not study on Facebook.

Student faces Facebook consequences

"Freshman hit with 147 academic charges for online study network at Ryerson University"

 Thou shalt not study on Facebook.

"Yet students argue Facebook groups are simply the new study hall for the wired generation." We find new ways to learn and what do they do. Anyone else used Facebook for studying?

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Next Generation Newspaper

It slips my mind who it was, but someone in class had a great idea of an online newspaper or "e-zine"

I stumbledupon this and the concept seems similar similar or at least would help augment the idea proposed in class. The gist is that you create a personal newspaper from your RSS and Atomrss2 Next Generation Newspaper feeds. It allows you to create a personal one for yourself or to publish one for others consumption.

Feed Journal | The Newspaper You Always Wanted

Whoever had the idea, please comment and let us know how this fits in with your vision and how you think they could improve upon the idea. Maybe this is a totally unrelated idea from yours but I think this is still a cool concept.

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The Offices of Web 2.0

Here is a really cool photoblog of the workspaces of some of the big players in web 2.0 The blog also gives a brief view into what each one does. linkedin The Offices of Web 2.0

  • Facebook
  • Digg
  • Twitter
  • Craigslist
  • Mozilla
  • Joost
  • Flickr
  • Last.fm
  • jaiku
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • netvibes
LinkedIn workspace

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The Captcha from hell…

Captchas are getting ridiculous but this takes the cake! 2268237733 cda4a1dbb3 The Captcha from hell... Maybe this isn't so bad for some of you engineering/math types…

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The Web in the Next Years: What's Ahead.

It’s fun to try and envision the future. Who could have imagined the capabilities of the internet just 10 years ago! Lets see if we can make some predictions about the near future of the web. This post will give a good overview of the direction of the web. Comment and give me your predictions!

Hat tip – many of these ideas are not my own and scrounged from many articles on Web 3.0 A few links I used are listed at the end. Thanks to all the brilliant people out there envisioning the future.

If Web 2.0 is all about:

  • Interaction
  • Connection
  • Collaboration
  • Contribution
  • Sharing
  • Blogs, Social media (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Digg)
  • Coding (HTML)

The versioning of the web is a bit of a stretch and overdone but we’ll go with it. Many of these technologies are just out of view of radar or in beta. But, they’re coming!

“Web 3.0″ is going to be about:

  • Relevancy
  • Recommendation
  • Personalization
  • Intuitive experience
  • Intelligent predicted results “complete your sentences”
  • Applications: (last.fm, Google Docs, games)
  • Coding (XHTML, AJAX, Ruby)
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