The Affordances of Social Media | April Niemela
Ultimately, then, Web 2.0 can be likened to a mash-up: it combines the historical and the emergent (Alexander 2006), utilizing the existing knowledge, content, or product to serve as fodder for the newly emerging innovation. ... While not a learning theory per se, social networking theory, grounded in the notion that social relationships are made of actors (nodes) and the ties that bind them are the relationships they forge, fits neatly into an online forum such as Web 2.0.
Facebook Working on Location-Based Mobile-Ad Product - Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. (FB), owner the world’s largest social network, says it’s working on a location-based mobile-advertising product that will allow companies to target users with real-time data showing their whereabouts. “Phones can be location ...