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...American Life Project and the College Board’s National Commission on Writing, found that two-thirds of high school students frequently use common e-mail, instant message, and text message slang in their academic writing. Students who have blogs or are members of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace were found to be 15 percent more likely to use informal writing styles in academic work. The report also found that girls were about 10 percent more likely to use text shortcuts and nearly 20 percent more likely to use emoticons than boys in academic writing...
...Google, which makes its money on a free and open Web, was not happy with the Facebook platform. That's because what happens on Facebook stays on Facebook. Google would much prefer that you come out and play on its platform - the wide-open Web. Don't stay behind Facebook's closed doors! Hie thee to the Web and start searching for things. That's how Google makes its money...
...last fall, Google rallied all the other major social networks (MySpace, Bebo, Hi5 and so on) and announced a new initiative called OpenSocial. OpenSocial wants to be like Facebook's platform, only much bigger: Widget makers can write applications for it and they can run anywhere - on MySpace, Bebo and Google's own social network, Orkut, which is very big in Brazil...
...Google's platform could actually dwarf Facebook - if it ever gets off the ground...
Even with all the lectures spent facebooking and hours of Web stalking, it’s hard to know for sure exactly what’s being written on the walls of your friends. In their ongoing effort to make procrastination easier, Facebook.com created Facebook Lexicon, a feature that tracks when and how often any given word appears on a wall or event page. So, in our ongoing effort to make procrastination even easier, FM decided to do the work for you (you’re welcome!), and hunt down all the buzz words to help you see what you?...