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Why I Rarely Answer My Phone | Bare Feet Blog

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Instant messaging lets us detect whether our friends are busy without our bugging them, and texting lets us ping one another asynchronously. The other tools at our disposal are more polite. Plus, we can spend more time thinking about what we want to say.)

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Going from Free to Fee Part 2

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In a way Twitter is like instant messaging. Instant messaging has stuck around through the ages as a free service but most of those services are supported by bigger businesses making money in other ways (MSN, AOL, Yahoo…) Maybe Google should/could buy out Twitter. :) And then again, sometimes businesses simply fail.

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biznet on Podcamp: How to Do a Skype Interview

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Shauna also was able to instant message me a list of questions so I could see the text. After the interview, I was able to message her all of the correct spellings and links to the people we discussed; made it easier for her to do a good job and for me to get excellent coverage!

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

At the time of writing this introduction (August 2006), no particular product or service exists that can definitively be categorised as a PLE, although some prototypical work is in progress. In January 2006, Blackboard Inc. , eLearning & Deliberative Moments. There are inconsistencies across these positions about what a PLE should do.

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Text Messages Sent by Cellphone Finally Catch On in U.S. - WSJ.com

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August 11, 2005. CODE=INDUSTRY SYMBOL=DTE --> Text Messages Sent by Cellphone. August 11, 2005. Shirley Jackson runs a prayer group by cellphone text-messaging. sends prayers to her 120 members and organizes them to pray for each other by tapping messages into her Samsung camera phone. billion in 2006 from $2.5

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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Crossing boundaries between institutions is frequently a greater barrier than mere distance (Cummings & Kiesler, 2005). 2003; Stokols, Harvey, Gress, Fuqua, & Phillips, 2005). Retrieved August 4, 2006 from [link]. Retrieved August 4, 2006 from [link]. Retrieved August 4, 2006 from [link]. Alexander, C.,

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Deleting Wall Posts – I did consider this deleting all the wall posts – and then individually deleting each one as I make a new one to use it as an “away message&# style of functionality…but that would literally take several hours with all the posts going back to 2005 or whenever it started.

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