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thomas n. burg - on social media and its benefits for us, and sometimes gossip.

ma.gnolia (instead of del.icio.us)

Short before some kind of relaunch of delicious I figured it is time to testdrive ma.gnolia.
Update: first impressions: - it’s nice but slooow! - Didn’t get the group usp yet. - They keep a copy of the bookmarked page - nice.


twitter-ti

okay, it took me some time to make myself comfortable with it: I now own a twitter account - still I’m not sure what this kind of microblogging will yield. It’s clear the object is attention on a short notice. But the effects - quite unclear to me. I go with [tag-tec]twitter[/tag-tec] because it favors an API. Everything else is second.

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“e-learning 2.0: all you need to know”, really!

Read/Write Web again offers some relevant perspectives on what might be called E-Learning ( ) 2.0. The obvious decisive aspect is the move from institution (was VLE - virtual learning environment like Blackboard and Moodle) to learner-centric environments (ePortfolios).

e-learning 2.0: All You Need To Know: “One of the strongest, but least hyped, uses of web 2.0 technologies over the past couple of years has been e-learning.

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Wanted: FOF (feed of feeds)

I just added my Ebay-auctions via RSS on this site. It works perfectly. Unfortunately feedburner doesn’t allow any additional splicing ( ) beyond flickr and delicious.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have one meta-feed that grabs all your different services rss ( ) feeds ( ).
Are there any tools like that available?