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Looking Into The Social Media Past

Firebelly

In preparation for the New Year, we’ve been working on transferring our Firebelly blog from Typepad to the beautiful WordPress content management system. Facebook: From The Computer Screen To The Big Screen , August 2008. Hulu Opens To The Masses Tomorrow , March 2008.

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

On the other hand, in Europe more sites use inhouse and open source implementations (Vuorikari, 2003). the leading commercial vendor of academic VLEs, was granted US patent 6,988,138 on " Internet-based education support system and methods ", even though there is evidently a long history of virtual learning environments.

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7 Steps to Creating Million-Dollar Web Apps (And a Big Announcement)

Viper Chill

37 Signals – Creators of popular web apps like Basecamp, Highrise and CampFire, reportedly made over $8m in 2008 (up from $5m in 2007) with their services which cost a monthly fee. The open source community didn’t become big by protecting stuff, it became big by sharing.