Without a doubt the topic du jour in tech and social media circles today is Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed.  I won’t go into the details of what organisational changes are expected to occur within both camps since Techmeme is already buzzing with discussion on the matter.  What I will say is I am not happy about the news, and if a recent post by Mashable is any indication, I’m not the only one:
“Unusually for an acquisition announcement, around 50% of comments on the official FriendFeed announcement of the deal are negative, …

Gina Minks and I have been having an ongoing discussion this evening about FriendFeed versus Facebook and it’s re-ignited an old train of thought that I’ve been pondering for quite some time now.
By and large the bulk of the online conversations I engage in these days take place on Twitter.  Sure I blog, and I post comments elsewhere, but these tend to be fairly one-off threads.  I’ll write a post here and perhaps receive a comment or two in response every once in a while, but there is rarely many-to-many …

I ran across an interesting conversation on Facebook earlier today that’s lead me to reflect on the current debate about laptops and portable devices in the classroom, their effectiveness, and criticism by some of how much of a “distraction” they are to learning.

“Dude this guy is painful!”
Someone I follow on Facebook posted a pair of extremely insightful statements in which she confessed to being:
“…totally on facebook during class right now. hey, anything to stay awake and survive this pharm lecture.”
Shortly thereafter she received several comments of affirmation and agreement from …

I’ve been experimenting with Facebook after a very long absence and have discovered that video is now available there. Having also spent some time looking for an Official Seesmic application for Facebook I’ve so far been unable to find one. Charles Cloughly indicates at least one does exist but says there’s nothing particularly substantial available currently.
Charles goes on to say that “he’s game” to develop a Facebook application for Seesmic, and knows there are several other API guys out there and asks “now that you’ve made the request …

After an exceptionally long absence from the social network I have recently begun to experiment with Facebook again. As one might expect, there has been a great deal of activity since the last time I interacted with the network – notably including the Beacon debacle, as well as the launch of countless new applications.
Of particular interest in recent Google news, I’ve just discovered that a Lively application for Facebook now exists. This discovery came after a few hours wasted trying (unsuccessfully) to figure out how to embed my …