Social Blogging

Well here it is. Just as we first discovered a few weeks ago, Facebook Lite has just been released for U.S. users to test out.

Salesforce .com will dramatically expand its fast-growing customer offering, among other things by integrating the service with Google , Twitter and Facebook so companies can connect with customers and access knowledge.

The Twitter desktop application is certainly seeing formidable competition, mainly from the likes of Seesmic Seesmic , or web-based alternatives, but their ultimate mission is to become more than just a Twitter Twitter app and be a browser for the real-time web.

President Barack Obama warned American teenagers on Tuesday of the dangers of putting too much personal information on Internet social networking sites, saying it could come back to haunt them in later life.

Hartgen, a Republican from Twin Falls, says he intends to try again to expand harassment laws to online communication, including e-mails, text messages and comments posted on blogs and social networking sites.

Conservative activists blasted it as socialist. Worried parents called for boycotts.

An Australian businessman accused of selling “friends” from the social networking site Facebook hit back Friday, saying it would be “very difficult” to stop him.

PRINCE HARRY ‘REKINDLES ROMANCE WITH EX’ Monday September 7,2009 British royal PRINCE HARRY has reunited with former lover CHELSY DAVY, according to U.K. reports.

For many years, reporters and photographers at the Morning Journal have been on the scene covering events of all kinds and striving to chronicle the life and times of our communities.

The Middleburg Civic Association has created a Facebook page for Middleburg to communicate online - with Middleburg.

Caption: Billy Crystal and his wife Janice Crystal Celebrities backstage at the Broadway musical ‘West Side Story’ at the Palace Theatre.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on social networking site Facebook but is not net savvy and even does not use a cell phone.

In this weekly Media Literacy Digest, open education advocate George Siemens, shares his latest insights, discoveries and doubts on the impact that information and communication technologies have on our society and work.

Photo credit: Sunil Kumar

Inside this Media Literacy Digest:

• Struggling For a Metaphor of Change - I am trying to find a metaphor of change that captures what is happening in society, technology, education, training, learning and development.
• Social Media, Connectivism - Two reminders: the next social media session and the open Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2009 course.
• How Companies Are Benefiting From Web 2.0 - A report that tries to quantify value generated from use of emerging technologies on internal processes, customer interactions and supplier interactions.
• The Doomed Global Campus - Universities are trying to unlock the online education model. Many fail. Global Campus is the most recent.
• More Aggregation Fun - “We have limits to our cognitive capacity. As a result, we will have to look for new methods to make sense of abundance.“
• Putting It Together Again - The web has been quite effective at breaking down content elements from coherent frameworks to fragmented pieces. This causes confusion and frustration for many.
• 3D Video Conferencing - This video demonstrates 3D video conferencing with eye contact and person to person (rather than person to camera) communication.
• Getting Started With Visualization - Data visualization serves a grunt cognition role: patterns and connections are revealed in an image that might take hours (or days) to discover otherwise.
• Paying For Content? - PaidContent analyzes the current state of “pay for online” newspapers. Result? Mixed.
• Online Learning As a Strategic Asset - Online Learning as a Strategic Asset is a good report, addressing many of the pitfalls I often see in universities and colleges as departments decide they need this internet thing for their courses.

Here all the details:

Microsoft is adding a Web 2.0-stylie sharing feature to its Bing search engine. Bing & Ping will allow web surfers to share some of their Bing searches with social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

The social networks landscape is about to get a lot more complicated with a few more choices.