Thought for the Day: “Systems are not neutral. They have natural biases.” Kevin Kelly

• Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009
  (via Gautam Ghosh) It’s interesting that Twitter is seen as a ‘learning tool’. Topping this list from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies are a set of social media tools. The poll, a sort of People’s Choice for learning professionals, is an annual affair. Social media are making heavy inroads.
• Twitter is a Fad
  (via Shannon Seery Gude) Twitter is just another Friendster. Watch the functionality move into a range of platforms. Fads are the essence of the new Silicon Valley software development model. Twitter is just a step in the right direction.
• Shannon Seery Gude on Social Media
  Video from the ERE Social Summit
• LinkedIn Profiles are more Honest Than Resumes.
  I heard Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn’s CEO say this the other day. Sadly, there’s no backing data. It’s just an unsubstantiated marketing claim. Although it has a certain logic to it, a world with three  year average career commitments is unlikely to produce the sort of consensual honesty claimed by the claim.
  That said, use this as an excuse to follow Joey DeVilla / Global Nerdy. He’s changing the face of Recruiting in Canada. Kris Dunn has some thoughts on the subject. There’s something here, however unsubstatiated LinkedIn’s claim. It should be fun to watch this meme proliferate. If this research is right and the half life of a friendship is seven years, the odds that social media can continue to make this sort of claim are kind of low.
• AOL’s IM Client for Apple Shows the way to SMS Disruption
  It’s likely that Twitter’s biggest impact will be to destroy text messaging revenues. Although AOL is first tomarket, the trend is very, very clear.