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Archive for August, 2006

The BlogAbroad Train Rolls On

Posted by Drew Olanoff on August 23rd, 2006

We’re back at it again people. The original Study Abroad reality show is back for yet another season. BlogAbroad season 4 has launched today and it’s going to be an awesome one!
As always, we have four great college students blogging about their experiences studying in other countries.
This season, there is:
Joe […]

Facebook opens up to developers

Posted by Drew Olanoff on August 16th, 2006

A great piece of news from yesterday is that the popular social networking platform Facebook (which is primarily geared towards higher education) is opening up an API to developers.
What does that mean in English? Ok, basically it means that some of the less private data that is collected on the Facebook […]

DigiTalk - PDA’s (Not Public Displays of Affection)

Posted by Drew Olanoff on August 15th, 2006

Pop quiz: You are a student in a class. The bell is about to ring and the teacher gives out a homework assignment. What do you do?
a) Ignore the teacher, grab your books, and run out of the room as fast as you can.
b) […]

AOL shows how not to take care of its users

Posted by Drew Olanoff on August 9th, 2006

One of the major things people are buzzing about on the net the past day or two is AOL’s release of user search data. Sure, there wasn’t a user name attached to the search results, but apparently people are figuring it out. This draws an interesting question.
1) how would […]

eduWebConference wrap-up

Posted by Drew Olanoff on August 7th, 2006

Last weeks eduWebConference was an interesting event. I’ve been to many technology conferences, and many higher ed conferences, but this was the first one I’ve attended that really attempted to marry the two together. I think they did an OK job. The group was a mix of web […]