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The blog craze started in 2004, MySpace came out in 2002. From then till now, Web 2.0 has penetrated deeply into our lives.
You may have heard the buzz: it’s all about communications, exchange information and expressing the ego.
Have you thought of utilizing all those things for learning?
Recently I’ve been very aggressive on the net to see how we can use the applications for learning, and here I am with my key findings:
Let’s imagine a very familiar study scenario: you’re assigned into a group to do a research on topic X.
Traditionally, the group would rely on emails, phone calls and IM to communicate and collaborate. Have you found these media difficult to classify your information?
Obviously, information searching starts with search engines.
I have some hints for this:
Watch a slide show on Google services:
Use Q&A service such as LinkedIn Answers to ask questions and receive information from professionals.
Watch a video explaining LinkedIn
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Normally you go out for information. Think about making information come to you?
Use RSS for this.
Watch a video explaining RSS
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/AwtmOPdrEL8"][/gv]
For example, if I’m looking for “globalization”, I would take these steps
Then check with the feed reader everyday to see if relevant information comes in.
You can also use Yahoo! Pipes to aggregate the feeds. Click here to view videos on Yahoo! Pipes
Try exploring different sources of information you can use this trick.
If I encounter useful webpages, I would want to share it with my group mates.
Using email would bury the link under heaps of other information. Sharing through IM stands the risk of losing the message when the program lags.
So I would bookmark the site using del.icio.us and use the function “links for friend” to share the link.
Watch a video explaining del.icio.us
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/r9s5hc3MJZo"][/gv]
WordPress supports multiple-author. I would want our group members to blog our research everyday on our blog. This is not superficial. It helps us
This is optional though. Some information might be very detailed and we want quick sharing methods. I would connect my mobile phone to Twitter and quickly update my thoughts on the way.
Watch a video explaining Twitter
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/ctXq1mKL7tk"][/gv]
Schedule activities such as meetings, field trips with Google Calendar
Go to Youtube, not to entertain, but to learn from podcasters on the topic.
For example, this video is useful to understand Web 2.0
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/5nN-U0sDZNc"][/gv]
Use Google Docs to compose the documents. This is very convenient in such that
Watch a video explaining Google Docs
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/eRqUE6IHTEA"][/gv]
Wiki is great to understand new concepts and link the information to get the big picture.
Watch a video explaining Wiki
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/hczDZXPfYn8"][/gv]
Facebook is good to build relationship with your work mates.
Publish your research as presentations on slideshare or documents on scribd to share your knowledge engage in discussion on the topic.
There are just so much!
How’re you gonna navigate around them all?
Well, one solution is to use a homepage service like netvibes to put all these services together.
Too complicated? Well here are the reasons why I would do it this way
I know it would be much easier for you just to email. But how much time have you spent searching for information later on? I’d rather spend the time to get things organized first, then make it easier later to focus more on creating contents.
And I’m pretty sure of one thing: just next year, this entry will be outdated because many new services will come out. Semantic web, mobile apps are just a few to predict.
It’s not a fashionable fad or a time-killer, it’s a shift in the way we can be more effective. Do you want to miss the train trend?
But you know, all these will never happen if digital divide hasn’t been closed.
Technology proficiency and more importantly, community habit is a big gap. I want my team to do so, but other teams may not, so some of my team members may argue “why do we have to!”
With the internet connection speed in Vietnam, using Google Docs et al is insane.
Today, a world that is flat is till a romantic dream for me.
I’ve already tried out these services. Kindly see mine as example of how things may end up evolve: taitran.com/blog/resources
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The blog craze started in 2004, MySpace came out in 2002. From then till now, Web 2.0 has penetrated deeply into our lives.
You may have heard the buzz: it’s all about communications, exchange information and expressing the ego.
Have you thought of utilizing all those things for learning?
Recently I’ve been very aggressive on the net to see how we can use the applications for learning, and here I am with my key findings:
Let’s imagine a very familiar study scenario: you’re assigned into a group to do a research on topic X.
Traditionally, the group would rely on emails, phone calls and IM to communicate and collaborate. Have you found these media difficult to classify your information?
Obviously, information searching starts with search engines.
I have some hints for this:
Use Q&A service such as LinkedIn Answers to ask questions and receive information from professionals.
You go out for information. Think about making information come to you?
Use RSS for this.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/AwtmOPdrEL8"][/gv]
For example, if I’m looking for “globalization”, I would do this steps
Then check with the feed reader everyday to see if relevant information comes in.
You can also use Yahoo! Pipes to aggregate the feeds. Click here to view videos on Yahoo! Pipes
Try exploring different sources of information you can use this trick.
If I encounter useful webpages, I would want to share it with my group mates.
Using email would bury the link under heaps of other information. Sharing through IM stands the risk of losing the message when the program lags.
So I would bookmark the site using del.icio.us and use the function “links for friend” to share the link.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/r9s5hc3MJZo"][/gv]
WordPress supports multiple-author. I would want our group members to blog our research everyday on our blog. This is not superficial. It helps us
This is optional though. Some information might be very detailed and we want quick sharing methods. I would connect my mobile phone to Twitter and quickly update my thoughts on the way.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/ctXq1mKL7tk"][/gv]
Schedule activities such as meetings, field trips with Google Calendar
Go to Youtube, not to entertain, but to learn from podcasters on the topic.
For example, this this video
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/5nN-U0sDZNc"][/gv]
Use Google Docs to compose the documents. This is very convenient in such that
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/eRqUE6IHTEA"][/gv]
Wiki is great to understand new concepts and link the information to get the big picture.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/hczDZXPfYn8"][/gv]
Facebook is good to build relationship with your work mates.
Publish your research as presentations on slideshare or documents on scribd to share your knowledge engage in discussion on the topic.
There are just so much!
How’re you gonna navigate around them all?
Well, one solution is to use a homepage service like netvibes to put all these services together.
Too complicated? Well here are the reasons why I would do it this way
I know it would be much easier for you just to email. But how much time have you spent searching for information later on? I’d rather spend the time to get things organized first, then make it easier later to focus more on creating contents.
And I’m pretty sure of one thing: just next year, this entry will be outdated because many new services will come out. Semantic web, mobile apps are just a few to predict.
It’s not a fashionable fad or a time-killer, it’s a shift in the way we can be more effective. Do you want to miss the train trend?
But you know, all these will never happen if digital divide hasn’t been closed.
Technology proficiency and more importantly, community habit is a big gap. I want my team to do so, but other teams may not, so some of my team members may argue “why do we have to!”
With the internet connection speed in Vietnam, using Google Docs et al is insane.
Today, a world that is flat is till a romantic dream for me.
I’ve already tried out these services. Kindly see mine as example of how things may end up evolve: taitran.com/blog/resources
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VCCorp is aggressively penetrating the “expert” content composition in Vietnam with their new products: CafeF, bnok, gocnhin and thenao
1. CafeF
A group-blog service on Finance and Stock developed basing on WordPress
2. bnok.vn
A group-blog service that hosts multiple professional and interest groups.
Currently, bnok is limited:
bnok supports import from these platforms
From this list, it is observable that their development team utilize plugins for WordPress. To penetrate the Vietnamese market, they should have started building a tool to import Yahoo! 360 blog now.
3. gocnhin
A techmeme clone
4. thenao
A Vietnamese wiki platform. I believe that with their financial base, VCCorp will introduce incentives for contributors in the competition with Wikipedia Vietnamese.
The name “thế nào” gives me the impression of “how stuffs work”.
VCCorp seems like the only player on this field. Will expert content have any potentials for monetization?
Apart from traditional monetization by advertising on web, selling analysis and contents to consumers is also a good idea.
What do you think about these products?
Pipes is a new mashup from Yahoo! that provides a GUI for building applications that aggregate Web feeds, web pages, and other services, creating Web-based applications from various sources. At the end of the process, user can choose to publish those applications.
The site works by letting users “pipe” information from different sources and then set up rules for how that content should be modified.
There are a series of videos to look at.
Firstly, please see the basics of Yahoo! Pipes
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Other videos in the series:
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For you who subscribed through taitran.com/feed, feed items transmission has been suspended for a few weeks.
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I’ve fixed this issue, and items are coming through to your RSS Reader and/or mailboxes again.
Happy reading, my beloved readers.
Tai Tran
Certainly, because Facebook is a social networking site, which is totally different from blogging.
Many consider writing the best way to express themselves and share their thoughts/feelings.
Some applications allow adding RSS Readers in Facebook profile. The most attractive of all today is Blog RSS Feed Reader
However, it means you need to rely on another blogging platform.
Alternatively, you can use a Facebook application named Live Blog created by Kudos Media . With Live Blog application, you can blog insdie Facebook without having to rely on third-party blogging platform.
This application supports basic HTML codes, mood, music embed, YouTube embed, Google Video embed and location where the journal happened.
Till now, no WYSIWYG interface has been provided. Decoration/image embed/URL must be done manually with HTML codes. Hope a more interactive edit pane will be added soon.
Try it out!
It means you now have everything you want on Facebook: terrific social networking functionalities, blogging, podcast, video embed, music, photo sharing, greetings cards and all.
Have you planned to move from other platform to Facebook yet?
It is predicted that Social Networking will reach its peak in around 2009 before experiencing gradual decline.
2 years is too far away, at least to an average user. Why not have all the fun today?
The truth is, I am really enjoying Facebook and all it’s got: relationship-centric network, mature core functionalities, rich applications, nice gifts, intuitive design…
Mini-feed is also a great idea! Whale done, Mark! With it I can explore what my friends have just been doing and so can they. A great way to know more about other people.
You can explore what your friends do daily on Facebook. Very good already…
Consider it more deeply, have you identified what are missing here?
You don’t know what your friends do in real life. Furthermore, you don’t know what they THINK!
Knowing one’s activities on one platform is great, but would it sometimes drive you to the assumption that you know what others are doing and thus spend less time interacting with them via more traditional but human way or reading what they have to write?
How do people express their ideas? Via what they have to write down (Blog!), or take photos on (Photoblog!), or produce video clip for (Vidlog!). Less likely via sets of pre-designed virtual gifts 
No, I don’t mean that gifts don’t represent the hearts. I still treasure each and every gift my friends have been giving me, but I’d appreciate it more if they simply write in their own words or post their own design.
I have emphasized many times that Social Networking is totally different from Blogging. However, due to the two facts that they are born so close to each other and that several sites offer both simultaneously such as Live Spaces or Yahoo! 360, the two are often mistaken to have to be together.
Let’s, for now, consider them cousins anyway. Who should follow whom?
It happens all the time that Blogging has to follow Social Networking, mainly because:
User-generated contents, if applicable, may be integrated into Social Networking profiles via RSS and/or addons. Correct me if I’m wrong, though it takes much more time and efforts to write posts, the section containing these posts is not the center of the majority of Social Networking profiles, and is often depressed by the higher density of other quicker and painless activities.
After following me down here, is there any reason you can think of to do the other way around, which means to bring Social Networking functionalities to Blogs?
Shaking head?
What’s the point?
Any profits doing so?
I’m answering this question: Yes! There are.
Those serious about publishing their own content will not be hindered by limitations. The will to write will push the authors to overcome the (possible) difficulties.
We’ll see how people do the hard job of bringing Social Networking to Blogs.
MyBlogLog builds communities around blogs and provides bloggers the ability to be updated of activities of their connections. Activities here are content-centric: read and comment.
The recent $10 million acquisition by Yahoo! has raised interests in MyBlogLog. MyBlogLog reports 45,000 registered blogs. A simple math gives us the price of each: $222. An innocent question comes following: will Yahoo!’s ads cover this cost?
Come on! Don’t pretend to be that naive. An acquisition doesn’t necessarily offer tangible benefits today or even next year, but the truth is that the concept and foundation of the seller then becomes more powerful in the strong hand of the buyer.
Acquiring MyBlogLog belongs to a grand strategy of Yahoo!. “MyBlogLog – a Yahoo! service” will not generate handsome profits alone, but will do so greatly when the platform is integrated with other legacy Yahoo! services such as Flickr, del.icio.us, Mash, Yahoo! Blog platform.
I am bringing networks to my blog with MyBlogLog.
Distributed Social Networking is the next ambition of Open Web community. It brings
Visualize this:
What does this mean? It means your content is the center of your site. What takes the most of your time and efforts deserves meritorious position.
I know you care, so please just share…
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