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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

G & S: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application; Computer hardware; Downloadable software for social networking and creating and interacting with online communities; Downloadable software for creating, managing and accessing groups within virtual communities; Software development tools; Downloadable software to enable development, (..)

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

PLEs are meant to simplify managing these artefacts, creating meaning through aggregation, linking and metadata tagging (eg comments, keywords). In universities, VLEs often act as secure gateways to digital indexes and research journals. But a PLE could host a searchable index to metadata about offline resources.

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Toward An Integrated Model of Information Seeking and Searching

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Why will our students not get up and walk a hundred meters to access a key journal article in the library? It is only in moments of great urgency or great interest that they spontaneously begin investing seriously in acquiring the information skills needed to satisfy their needs. Information Farming.

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