From social networking to blogging to image sharing....

From Digital inspiration:A survey of the most popular social networking services (I'm not sure I consider email to be truly social networking, but anyhow...)Email: 35%Facebook: 10%..Myspace: 7%del.icio.us: 4%Complete stats and graphs here

A little bit of promotion for a program on the UGA Campus. Enclosed below is the announcement with bio information.---------------Web2.0+ and Professional Networking: Are you LinkedIn? Panel DiscussionDate: August 12, 2008Time: 2-3 p.m.SLC Room 148Free!

I think this sounds like a really interesting way to learn a language -- social networking & multimedia style! Mashable has a good overview & review here:

Babbel is the latest site to teach new languages through a social Web-based immersion program, where the majority of the content is packaged into lessons created by Babbel. So far, languages such as Spanish, French, Italian, English, and German are supported.

First-of-Its-Kind Study at the University of Minnesota Uncovers the Educational Benefits of Social Networking SitesUniversity of Minnesota News (06/19/08) Badaracco, LuisaUniversity of Minnesota researchers have determined the educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook and also found that low-income students are in many ways just as technologically proficient as their more advantaged counterparts.

Just in case you didn't know, Flickr now allows video upload for "pro" accounts.At this point, running time is limited to 90 seconds. Hopefully, if they want to be a full media site, they will up the time limit, because 90 seconds, well, that is not very long. To be honest, I'm losing my love of flickr quickly anyhow.

From the excellent commoncraft folks.[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/1239439 w=400&h=225]What is LinkedIn? from LinkedIn Marketing on Vimeo.

From Libgig's sitehttp://www.libgig.com---------------LibGig is a new professional networking website dedicated to bringing together everyone who accesses, organizes, creates, manages, produces or distributes information for a living.----Includes: Job listings, information about LS programs, blog posts, interviews of community leaders, etc.

Author, Here Comes Everybody ... The Power of Organizing Without OrganizationsMoira speaks with CLAY SHIRKY about the relationship between social networks and technical networks. Now with texting, and digital photos and cell phones, everything from politics to socializing will never be the samehttp://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3596.html