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- Ning! MySpace is dead. Long live social networking.
- I stumbled across Ning a few weeks ago as I was looking for some end-of-year activities for restless students. Ning is a free service that actually lets you create your own social network. While this turned out to be an interesting exercise for my students, particularly once they...
- Tags: Education Technology, Classroom Tech
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Teachers + MySpace = Bad Idea?
- Maybe...The Boston Globe reported that one local school district is at least drafting a policy advising against inappropriate conduct or communication via social networking sites. While this is hardly earth-shattering, the head of one Boston-area teachers union said: "We just want to make teachers aware that when they...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- State wants to require age verification for MySpace
- All the warnings, pamphlets and assorted educational pep talks about the dangers of social networking are apparently not keeping kids safe for minors. The Connecticut state legislature is taking matters into their own hands. Its proposing a bill to require MySpace.com and other social-networking sites to verify users...
- Tags: Social networking, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Teens grieve on deceased friends' MySpace profiles
- As teens spend more of their leisure time hanging out online, it stands to reason that when a loved one dies, they would turn to social networking sites to grieve,reports the Associated Press "These are places where people in many ways lived their lives online," said Amanda Lenhart, a...
- Tags: Social networking, Students, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- IL Senate wants to ban MySpace from schools
- The Illinois Senate is extending its effort to protect children from sexual predators by banning MySpace from schools and libraries, reports the Chicago Tribune. Critics of the proposed legislation say that that banning those sites would affect those who cant afford the Internet at home, and schools already have...
- Tags: Social networking, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Parent suit against MySpace dismissed
- A suit brought by the family of a teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by someone she met on MySpace has been dismissed by a federal court, reports Reuters News Service. Judge Sam Sparks of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas granted MySpaces motion to...
- Tags: Education Technology, Social networking
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- MySpace experiments with video censoring software
- Bowing to pressure from media conglomerates and copyright holders to stop the posting of copyrighted material, MySpace has announced it will experiment with a new video-filtering system reports the Washington Post. MySpace is joining forces with software company Audible Magic Corp., which owns the rights to a system that...
- Tags: Education Technology, Social networking
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- MySpace rolls out Zephyr to protect kids, hold off critics
- According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, parents of MySpace users are a little closer to being able to keep tabs on some of the information that teens post on the popular social networking site, reports Reuters. Due to government pressure, MySpace announced that parents will soon...
- Tags: Education Technology, Social networking, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
- Study: Kids are acting more responsibly on MySpace
- All the publicity about teenagers posting private information on MySpace must be sinking in. A new study showed that most underage users of the social networkng site arent posting personal information or photos that could attract pedophiles, reports Reuters. Although the study concluded that a good percentage of underage...
- Tags: Education Technology, Social networking, MySpace, Sameer Hinduja
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- Think twice before you post that pic on your MySpace
- Words of warning about the dangers of social networks. Steve Kerrison writes on the Hexus Community that by posting personal details on social networks, students are creating great risks of identity theft, privacy loss, and embarassing themselves out of future job opportunities. He cites a warning by Prof....
- Tags: INTERNET, SECURITY, SEARCH, social networking, privacy, MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- MySpace unveils new cybersafety feature
- Under increasing pressure to deal with the presence of sexual predators and young children on MySpace, the NewsCorp-owned social networking wunkerkind will soon unveil a new safety feature called Sentinel Safe, Reuters reports. Business analysts say the the personal safety of its online users as well as the...
- Tags: MySpace, sex offender, offender, Social networking, Cybersecurity, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-05
- School gangs use MySpace to mark off Web territory
- High schools have always struggled to find ways to curb school violence but the advent of MySpace seems to have only widened gang turf wars, reports The Baltimore Sun. At Annapolis High School in Baltimore, students on MySpace this week revealed photos of students and ex-students holding weapons and...
- Tags: MySpace, Education Technology, Students, Social networking
- Blog posts 2006-11-24
- MySpace goes after European teens
- MySpace, the preferred social networking site for teens, is aggressively pursuing the overseas market but do Europeans socially network the same way, asks The New York Times. Like every good capitalist corporation, MySpace is attempting to test the overseas waters by opening public test pages for Germany and France....
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
Additional Resources
- End the carrier veto over mobile technology
- Their control over mobile technology has hampered the market for years, and here AT&T is bragging that they're going to intensify that control, and unilaterally decide which Internet technologies will live and which will die. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Mobile, AT&T Corp., Carrier, Mobile Service, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- UK plans lunar phone network
- The UK is planning mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists to use mobile phones to communicate with each other A UK-led mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists...
- Tags: Phone, Mission, Phone Network, Orbit, Satellite, British National Space Centre, Network Technology, Networking, moon, NASA, network, communications, Natasha Lomas silicon.com
- News items 2008-12-05
- Intel maintains commitment to education
- Despite dismal economic times, Intel, creator of the Classmate PC, an associated software stack, and a pedagogical model for its use in schools, has reaffirmed its commitment to education. Today, the company announced that it had achieved its goal of 1 million volunteer hours from its employees. According...
- Tags: Education, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- CRM 2009 - Part 2.1 - Can't Believe I Forgot These
- I forgot to write in two of my forecast segments yesterday. I think for the purposes of blaming something else, I'll blame my car accident last August for the memory loss. I have to say that because I don't think I can use the term I want to about what happened...
- Tags: Customer, Tool, CRM, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone
- Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales Larry Dignan: AMD:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...
- Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Buffalo Technology moves closer to returning to U.S. Wi-Fi router market
- Wireless watchers may have noticed that Buffalo Technology disappeared from the router game some time back, due to a successful suit brought against it by an Australian company. But Buffalo may be getting back in the market, due to a new court decision that stayed the injunction against it selling...
- Tags: Buffalo, Buffalo Technology, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Games, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
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