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on Facebook and Identity

December 16, 2008 – 8:01 am

Very interesting post appeared on the ABC news site titled ‘Lawyer uses Facebook to serve documents‘. A Canberra court has approved using Facebook as a way to serve documents. Apparently, the co-defendants have been hard to reach but there are Facebook accounts which list them as friends and has their birth dates. […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, identity, SICTAS | Comments (0)

on Twitbook

November 26, 2008 – 8:21 am

Just reading the article on the unsuccessful negotiations of Facebook to buy out Twitter. My first thoughts are that I am relieved that deal didn’t go through. According to the article it failed over the price. I wonder what Facebook and Twitter users think of such a takeover. According to this ZDNet […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, social networking, interoperability, Twitter, standards | Comments (0)

the week that was

August 22, 2008 – 9:10 am

so… not much to post about today but here’s a few reflections. My iPod Touch is getting better all the time - the release of the iPhone has resulted in a steady stream of new apps that can be installed on the iPod too and with its networking capability its just getting better and […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, social networking, iPod, Apple, Twitter | Comments (0)

so Google wants to crawl Facebook

May 2, 2008 – 11:27 am

From ZDNet comes a post reporting of Google’s CEO pleading to crawl Facebook.  Quoted as saying “If it’s not searchable by Google, it’s not open, and open is best for the consumer,”.  Hmmm, best for the consumer or marketer?  Eric Schmidt is quoted as then going on to say that people should be able to […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, google, OpenSocial | Comments (1)

the ‘vast machine’

August 15, 2007 – 8:28 pm

Well this is sort of a culmination of a few interesting things I have read recently that’s worth some sort of reflection and perhaps commentary. Anyway, one of the ways that I like to relax is reading fiction and I recently picked up and read ‘The Traveller’ by John Twelve Hawks. I tend […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, conspiracy, marketing | Comments (2)