Mashable Monthly SF Event Streaming Live

Tonight is the first ever Mashable Monthly SF with Pete Cashmore and the Mashers, the blogger lounge and San Francisco’s tech crowd. Are you like me and can’t make the event? No problem. Check out the live stream from our video partner Stickam. They’re conducting interviews throughout the night and reporting on the happenings at [...]

Microsoft Set to Launch Social Bookmarking Service Next Month

Microsoft is ready to dive into the social bookmarking arena. After previewing a version of its own Delicious competitor back in May, the company is now set to launch Microsoft Social Bookmarks next month, an effort that will initially focus on techies by offering versions of the site on MSDN, TechNet, and Expression. [...]

Dell’s Social Media Experiment Aims to Capture the Digital Nomad

While the actual term “digital nomad” has been around for a little while, it usually seems to fall under the shadow of the more expansive term of telecommuting. The fact is that really they are two different ideas altogether.
The idea of telecommuting has been around for almost as long as computers have been [...]

Flickr Improves and Adds Video to Slide Shows

Flickr slide shows sure do make it easier to view all those images being shared on a given Flickr stream, and the ability to do so has even spurred a healthy-sized third market from developers that offer Flickr slide show tools as well.
The dominant photo-sharing service has steadily been improving its slide show [...]

Mozilla Selects its 7 Best Firefox 3 Extensions

We here at Mashable have shared with you a number of feature stories on how to extend your Firefox 3 experience. From must-have add-ons to social applications to gems that’ll help you communicate most effectively with friends, family, co-workers and so forth. Today there comes another set of top-tier add-ons picked from the growing goodie [...]

When Professors Create Social Networks for Classes …

August 18, 2008 When Professors Create Social Networks for Classes, Some Students See a ‘Creepy Treehouse’
A growing number of professors are experimenting with Facebook, Twitter, and other social-networking tools for their courses, but some students greet an invitation to join professors’ personal networks with horror, seeing faculty members as intruders in their private online spaces. [...]

SPEC Kit 304: Social Software in Libraries

Social Software in Libraries: SPEC Kit 304 Published by ARL

Matthew Bejune and Jana Ronan / July 2008 / ISBN 1-59407-803-3 / 196 pp. / $45 ($35 ARL members)
Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Social Software in Libraries, SPEC Kit 304, which provides an overview of ARL libraries’ implementation of software that people [...]

NYTimes: The Social Network As A Career Safety Net

New York Times / August 14 2008The Social Network as a Career Safety Net
By SARAH JANE TRIBBLE
IF you have avoided social-networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook with the excuse that they are the domain of desperate job hunters or attention-seeking teenagers, it’s time to reconsider. In a world of economic instability and corporate upheaval, savvy [...]

The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age

The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age
Joseph Turow and Lokman Tsui, Editors
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2008
Cloth / 978-0-472-07043-5 / $70.00 ; Paper / 978-0-472-05043-7 / $24.95
Investigates the multi-faceted nature of hyperlinks and their consequences for commerce, communication, and civic discourse in the world of digital media.“Links” are among the most [...]

WebJunction Launches New Online Social Experience

DUBLIN, Ohio, August 13, 2008. WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience in close collaboration with partners in 15 state libraries. The new site builds on the deep repository of helpful content, relevant courses, and active discussions that have been the hallmark of [...]