” … data released by Facebook today shows that Facebook users are searching in large volume: 500 million Facebook searches were conducted in May alone.”

Written Ashley Deal from the Education and Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence at Carnegie Mellon University. Confirms earlier work, cites some useful examples of podcasting in academia, not just recorded lectures …

And Facebook’s average user gets older … Visitors aged 12-17 increased 150% over the last yea; Visitors 18-24 increased 38%; Visitors 25-34 increased 11% during that time – a huge number; Visitors 35+ increased 98%

“More than one hundred Australians every hour are signing up to share their lives on Facebook.com, making the nation the fifth-highest ranking country using the social utility.”