
At last week’s Web 2.0 Expo I went to see Dion Hinchcliffe talk about Building successful next generation Web 2.0 applications.
Here are the most pertinent points for the OU as it considers building SocialLearn.

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I flipped to Academia.edu after reading one blogger referring to it as “Facebook for Academia” and while it has a few FB-like features (updates) I could not think of a more opposite description for a social network.

On this day last year I wrote my very first blog post, prompted into action by a link from Martin Weller's blog to my then largely empty blog!

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