Face to Face Space: Social Networking Communities, "Facebook"

Facebook began as a college campus-specific site in 2005 but expanded last year to let anyone join. As a result, Facebook is now not only still extremely popular with college students, but quickly catching on with high schoolers, giving MySpace a run for its money. Not surprisingly, this year's SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards named Facebook the #1 social networking tool.

I have my own Facebook page.
Find me in "Ohio" network or "Ohio staff" network. :)

Gabcast.com

Gabcast.com is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers virtual communities, individuals and organizations an easy way to create and distribute audio content.

RSS is a simple method to get changes or updates from websites or blogs to your computer. Every so often, your RSS reader will connect to the website and see if there's anything new available. If so, it pulls it down to your computer and notifies you.

XML = eXtensible Markup Language

RSS reads XML files from the website. The XML file contains keywords in a specific format that your RSS reader interprets and then presents you in a readable format.

Technorati and tags

Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content (webpages, pictures & blog posts).

Technorati has began tracking other social media web content such as video, photos and audio.With Technorati, you can search for keywords in either a particular blog, all blogs, or subject-oriented blogs (like photography or libraries).

Here is an example with Technorati tags.
You can find the search results about "oulibraries"
Click here :
[oulibraries]