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Tag: Facebook

  • Teaching Emotional Intelligence To Teenagers & Undoing the Mess That Was Created By Progress

    My Son came home from school and worked on an interesting project that teaches emotional skills. How to respond when things happen. It looked like this: You have to understand, this is a typical 1st grade school (or not typical) where the kids are psychotic. It’s survival of the fittest here. Maybe that is just…

  • Spam on Google+

    When Google+ first came out a couple months ago, I embraced and applauded the open-ness. It was refreshing to be able to connect with all sorts of people I otherwise might not have. And I did. Dont get me wrong, I even created a circle of people who circled me that I didnt know, but wanted to.…

  • Twitter is here to stay

    I suspect many others have had a similar experience. When Google + first came out, I got an invite on day one (which obviously made me feel special). I quickly closed out of Facebook, shut down tweet deck and got off twitter so I could give my undivided attention to G+. What I learned And I learned…

  • Goodbye FBML, Hello Iframes: A new era for Facebook pages

    About a week ago, Facebook announced changes to Facebook pages. FBML (Facebook Markup Language) is being phased out and as of March 11 2011 there will no longer be the ability to create new FBML apps for pages. Instead, Facebook is going to be relying on Iframes for its apps, which is great news. FBML…

  • Facebook Open Graph: Making one big Social Internet

    Imagine for a moment an internet personalized for you. At the f8 conference this past week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, announced the new Facebook Open Graph platform which will bring us one step closer to that personalized internet. Facebook connect is a thing of the past. While connect was successful, Facebook Open Graph is predicted…