21st Century "Web 2.0" Applications

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21st Century "Web 2.0" Applications

• Spring 2007 Technology Workshops
• Pam Gades, Computing Services

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What is Web 2.0?

• Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation
  of services available on the World Wide Web that
  let people collaborate, and share information
  online.
• Living Web
• Read/Write Web
• Semantic Web

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Web 2.0 is Useful for . . .

• those who use multiple computers in various
  locations
  
• discovery of items similar to your
  selections/interests
  
• sharing resources with peers, managers, students
  others
  
• building communities and discovering like-minded
  individuals

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Web 2.0 Offerings
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Tag Clouds
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Web 2.0 Tools Applications a sampling

• Social Software
• Blogs (weblogs, Blogger, UThink, Technorati, Blog
  Search)
  
• Wikis (such as Wikipedia, UMwiki)
• Image/Video Storage and Sharing (Flickr,
  YouTube)
  
• Web-based Productivity Applications (Google Docs,
  Mindomo, ZohoShow)
  
• Social Bookmarking (Tagging, Del.icio.us)
• Social Networking (mySpace, Facebook)
• Social Annotation (Diigo)

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So many more . . .

• Slideshare
• Google more even more
• Google Maps (look at featured maps in myMaps)
• Mashups
• Google Earth
• Education Search
• http//www.webmashup.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID162
• webmashup.com (for many more)

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21st Century "Web 2.0" Applications

• Spring 2007 Technology Workshops
• Pam Gades, Computing Services

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