I asked myself the same question while ripping my hair out recently (dramatic license taken here..) Then, I stumbled across an interesting article in the New York Times Online edition Sep 18th, 2008 that discusses the issues posed by too many choices in new Web 2.0 technologies. As noted in the article
Brad Burnham, a partner at Union Square Ventures, which invests solely in these Web services, has been thinking about the problem too. Unlike a few years ago, he said, to get someone to use a Web service now you have to get them to replace something else in their life. The future is in Web services that do not require users to change their behavior by, say, adopting a new service or transferring all their friends’ contacts from one service to another.
Enter Friendfeed. This is a website that allows you to compile all of your web services into one location. Every time you (or one of your friends) adds a photo to Flickr, enters a Twitter comment, or changes a blog entry, it is recorded here. Yes, in one place!
How might you use this in your classroom or for a telecollaborative project? You might learn some new ideas for Friendfeed and other technologies by joining the Friendfeed room, The Future of Education.
Check out my friendfeed at http://friendfeed.com/skearney
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