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Friday Link Post: School’s Out For Summer

Classic Alice Cooper, I remember playing that back when I was a DJ at WRPI, that was good times. I’ve been puttering around this week, just hanging out before my summer co-op starts on Monday. Of course, I have had lots of time to find cool links for you:

Archana’s Blog
I am writing this from Austin [...]

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Facebook Lexicon

I’ve spent a while playing with Facebook’s newly announced feature, called Lexicon. It gives an interesting view into the sorts of things that social networking sites can do with the massive amount of user-created content that they hold.
Basically, Lexicon lets you compare how often keywords show up over time on people’s Walls in Facebook (no [...]

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How Do You Facebook?

I started writing this post with an introduction something like this:
Is it just Pirates and Ninjas for you, or do you use it as a communications medium/platform, like email? (Just more informal and personable?)
But then I started thinking, the beauty of social networking, as mediated through the internet, is that it reflects our social networking [...]

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Your Calendar + Facebook? Easy.

Use Google Calendar or iCal? Do you get invites to events on facebook? Want to track your friends’ birthdays in GCal or iCal?
fbCal is a facebook application (an old one, in fact) that crunches all of your friends’ birthdays and events into two separate subscribable iCalendar files. Setting it up is painfully easy, just follow [...]

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Collaborate on Facebook = Fail?

Just came across this article via slashdot, apparently a student at Ryerson University in Canada is facing academic charges for being the admin of a chemistry study group on facebook.
The computer engineering student has been charged with one count of academic misconduct for helping run the group ? called Dungeons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions after the popular [...]

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