Web 2.0

1.   Definition/History

a. Google Search

                                         i.     Define: Web 2.0

                                        ii.    “Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes.”en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

b. Term was first used by Tim O’Reilly (http://www.oreillynet.com/) in 2003.

2.   Key elements

a. Web-based applications vs computer based – applications delivered through the browser.

b. Google Docs and Spreadsheets - http://www.google.com/google-d-s/b1.html - word processor, spreadsheet

                                         i.    Gliffy - http://www.gliffy.com/ - Draw and share diagrams on the Web

                                        ii.    Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/ - presentations and slideshows

                                      iii.    List - http://web2.econsultant.com/microsoft-office-software-services.html

                                      iv.    List - http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/the-freelancers-toolset-100-web-apps-for-everything-you-will-possibly-need/

                                       v.    List - http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/guide46.html

c. Users own the data and control its use and release

                                         i.    See above

                                        ii.    Flickr – www.flickr.com

                                      iii.    Picassa - http://picasa.google.com/

                                      iv.    Wikipedia – www.wikipedia.org

                                       v.    TeacherTube – www.teachertube.com

                                      vi.    Digg - www.digg.com

d. Architecture of Participation – users add value

                                         i.    wikipedia - www.wikipedia.org

                                        ii.    YouTube - www.youtube.org

                                      iii.    Digg -digg.com

                                      iv.    Technorati - technorati.com

e. Rich, interactive, user-friendly.

                                         i.    PBwiki. www.pbwiki.com

                                        ii.    del.icio.us - del.icio.us

                                      iii.    Google personalized home page

                                      iv.    IGoogle

f.  Some Social Networking - connections and relationships between people

                                         i.    Club Penguin - http://www.clubpenguin.com/

                                        ii.    MySpace - www.myspace.com

3.   Additional information

a. Tags - Keywords - User defined

                                         i.    List

                                        ii.    Tag Cloud – visual representation of tags used and their frequency. Example –

1.   http://del.icio.us/tag/

2.   http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/

b. Web 2.0 applications, terms, etc.

                                         i.    Blogs - http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/05/only_the_lonely.html

                                        ii.    Wikis - http://instructionwiki.org/

                                      iii.    Podcasts - http://www.podcast.net/

                                      iv.    Social Networks – http://classroom20.ning.com/

                                       v.    Social Software – software that allows for collaboration

                                      vi.    Folksonomy – user generated, taxonomy, open ended, used to access web content., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy

                                    vii.    Blogsphere - http://datamining.typepad.com/gallery/blog-map-gallery.html

                                   viii.    Avatar - http://www.dookyweb.com/avatars.swf

                                      ix.    Social Bookmarking – http://del.icio.us

                                       x.    Vodcast - http://www.vodcasts.tv/

                                      xi.    Aggregator . www.google.com/reader

                                    xii.    RSS feed, XML feed - http://www.infotoday.com/MMschools/jan04/richardson.shtml , http://weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf

                                   xiii.    Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org/

                                  xiv.    Mashups - http://www.programmableweb.com/