&t North Country Consulting: February 2008

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

How to Do Everything: Facebook Applications

Books have shipped. For more info, videos, discussion board, and updates, visit the book's Facebook Page.

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Saturday, February 2, 2008

Sharing, Privacy, and Trust in a Networked World

Fascinating and detailed (280 pages) report from OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). It provides information about Internet use in six countries; it is an update to a report from 2005, so it is able to show trends.

Here are the usage rates in the online population from 2005 to 2007 for various technologies:

search engines: 71% to 90%
email: 73% to 97%
blogs: 16% to 46%

Unfortunately, there's another statistic. Visits to library Web sites dropped from 30% of the online population in 2005 to 20%.

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Social Networking and Libraries

Jane Secker (London School of Economics and Political Science) has a great paper on libraries and Facebook. It's part of LASSIE: Libraries and Social Software in Education.

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Roundtable, Monday February 4, 11 AM

I'm joining Joe and Julia on WAMC's Roundtable on Monday. We'll be talking about social networking and Facebook. There's lots to talk about--the changing concepts of privacy, what viral marketing is, and who's using Facebook (hint: it's not kids).

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The Facebook Page for the Book

There's now a Facebook Page for How to Do Everything: Facebook Applications. There are some video demonstrations of creating apps and a walk-through of the book's example app. Discussion board, a schematic diagram of a Facebook app integrated with a database and external Web site, and a few more goodies (including the links to the downloadable files).

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