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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

" Facebook gets into texting game with Facebook Messenger — Tech News and Analysis – "Facebook has already started to supplant traditional email providers as a dominant way that people communicate online. Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? Have you made a video like this?

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

Most real-time search companies believe that's not enough to power a full index and rely on other sources of additional links to look at, often from the click-streams of users who have downloaded their software and opted-in to exposing their online behavior anonymously. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter?

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. A few nonprofits are using socialbookmarking to track resources or follow particular topics for trend analysis for strategic planning. You probably noticed that about my tag stream.