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Link roundup for 11/29/07

November 29th, 2007

AP-AOL Instant Messaging Trends Survey Reveals Popularity Of Mobile Instant Messaging: this survey has interesting tidbits about IM use including workplace use, use on mobile devices, and how teen use IM. 79 percent of office workers have used IM for personal use.

Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: When E-Mail Is Outsourced: A long article describing the trends of email outsourcing, particularly for education institutions. Most of the outsourcing consists of migrations to Google or Microsoft hosted solutions.

How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook — Facebook — InformationWeek: Novelist, blogger, and technologist Cory Doctorow argues that social networks are inherently transitory and face disuse when people are effectively forced to articulate static social networks since deleting other individuals causes too much distress. Instead they will simply move to a new service — leaving the old one behind.

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