Farhad Javidi

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• Farhad Javidi
• Web 2.0 Workshop
• ShellyCashman Institute, 2008

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Google Web 2 Tools

• Create a Gmail account, if you dont have one
• Install Google toolbar
• Install and work with Google Talk
• Join the ShellyCashman Group
• Work with Google Documents
• Work with Google Calendar
• Work with Google Spreadsheet
• Work with Google Presentation
• Work with Picasa
• Work with Blogger
• Work with YouTube
• Work with Orkut
• Install and work with Lively
• More

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Play Time

• Create a Facebook account, if you dont have one
• Visit Pownce
• Visit Twinity
• Create a profile on TedTalks
• Install Flock
• Install FireFox
• Play with addons Ex. PicLens
• Play with VoiceTread
• Play with SlideShare
• Play with pbwiki
• Play with flauntr
• Play with diigo
• Visit giveawayoftheday.com
• More

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PodCasting
A podcast/VideoCast is a media file that is
distributed by subscription (paid or unpaid) over
the Internet using syndication feeds, for
playback on mobile devices and personal
computers. The host or author of a podcast is
often called a PodCaster/VideoCaster. Gcasthttp
//www.gcast.com/
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Jott
Jott is a voice-to-text transcription service
which allows its users to call a toll-free
telephone number and speak for up to 30 seconds.
The speech is then transcribed to text using a
combination of software and human transcribers
who work in a "sterile environment which also
includes medical dictation." The message can be
sent back to oneself, turned into a reminder,
sent to a contact or group, or sent to a
third-party "Jott link" such as LiveJournal.
Transcribed messages can be delivered to
recipients via email, text message, or both.
http//www.jott.com/
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Yap
A service for your mobile phone that allows you
to instantly send text messages...just by
talking! http//www.yapme.com/
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Online Office Suites
Zoho is a web office suite which includes tools
for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations,
databases, note-taking, wikis, CRM and other
applications. Being web-native, all Zoho
applications are operating system
independent. http//notebook.zoho.com/
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Search Engines
oSkope visual search is a free online service
developed by oSkope media gmbh in Zurich and
Berlin. http//www.oskope.com/ Tafiti, which
means "do research" in Swahili, is an
experimental search front-end from Microsoft,
designed to help people use the Web for research
projects that span multiple search queries and
sessions by helping visualize, store, and share
research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft
Silverlight and Live Search.. http//www.tafiti.co
m/ ChaCha http//www.chacha.com/
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Search Engines
Get custom content for Windows Live and Windows
Vista, including Sidebar, search, Messenger, and
more. Live Search Video site plays videos as you
moves your mouse over them. http//www.live.com/ h
ttp//gallery.live.com/
Vivisimo http//vivisimo.com/ Clusty http//clust
y.com/ DogPile http//www.dogpile.com/
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Online Note Taking
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that
makes it easy to publish rich content to your
blog.  Publish to most major blog services
including Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint,
Wordpress, Blogger and many others. Insert photos
and videos, maps, tags and lots of other cool
content, all in a snap. Powerful editing features
include tables, spell checker, and quick
hyperlinks. Writer shows you what your blog entry
will look like before you post it, using your
blog's templates and formatting. Compose your
entries offline and publish them later, when you
get back online. http//writer.live.com/
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Online Collaboration
Office Live Workspace is a Microsoft Office
Live-branded online storage and collaboration
service for Microsoft Office 2007 documents and
most other common file types. The documents will
be stored on remote servers and will be made
available to those who have access to the
documents. The service will also feature shared
calendars and task lists. http//workspace.office
.live.com/
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Online File Sharing
Live SkyDrive lets you Store and access your
personal files from anywhere online.
http//skydrive.live.com/
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What is Virtual World?
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated
environment intended for its users to inhabit and
interact via textual, 2 or 3 dimension avatars.
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What is Second Life?
Second Life (abbreviated as SL) is an
Internet-based virtual world launched in 2003,
developed by Linden Lab, which came to
international attention via mainstream news media
in late 2006 and early 2007. A downloadable
client program enables its users, called
"Residents", to interact with each other through
avatars, providing an advanced level of a social
network service combined with general aspects of
a metaverse. Residents can explore, meet other
Residents, socialize, participate in individual
and group activities, create and trade items
(virtual property) and services from one another.
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Virtual Worlds

• Lively by Googlehttp//www.lively.com/
• Multiversehttp//www.multiverse.net/
• MPK20, Sun's Virtual Workplacehttp//research.sun
  .com/projects/mc/mpk20.html
• Built on Project Wonderland https//lg3d-wonderla
  nd.dev.java.net/
• Built on Project Darkstarhttp//www.projectdarkst
  ar.com/
• Sonys Homehttp//www.youtube.com/watch?vkyquAXK
  eEI0

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Virtual Worlds

• Twinity
• Second Life http//www.secondlife.com
• Therehttp//www.there.com
• OpenLife Gridhttp//www.openlifegrid.com/
• Croquet Consortiumhttp//croquetconsortium.org

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Social Communities

• Facebookhttp//www.facebook.com
• Orkuthttp//www.orkut.com
• MySpace http//www.myspace.com/
• Twitter (140 Characters Long Updates)http//www.t
  witter.com

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Scribd
Scribd is a document sharing website. It
currently houses over 350,000 documents. The site
was initially funded with 12,000 funding from Y
Combinator, but has since received over 3.7
million from Redpoint Ventures and The Kinsey
Hills Group. http//www.scribd.com/
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Internet TV
Discovery http//www.discovery.com/googleearth/ J
oost http//www.joost.com/ Zattoohttp//zattoo.
com/ HuLu http//www.hulu.com/
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Other Applications
Meebo http//www.meebo.com/ OpenSocial http//co
de.google.com/apis/opensocial/ Box http//www.bo
x.net/ Twitter http//twitter.com/
Quatably http//quotably.com/
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Microsoft Cloud
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CardSpace
Windows CardSpace (codenamed InfoCard), is
Microsoft's client software for the Identity
Metasystem.
http//www.microsoft.com/net/cardspace.aspx
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Internet Explorer Eight
Internet Explorer 8 will take the web experience
beyond the page. Internet Explorer 8 introduces a
new way to seamlessly experience the best of the
web whether you are a web developer writing to
standards or a user discovering a new online
service. Be one of the first developers to take
advantage of improvements in Internet Explorer 8
for your websites and applications.
http//www.microsoft.com/ie/ie8
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Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser,
cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for
delivering the next generation of .NET based
media experiences and rich interactive
applications for the Web. By using Expression
Studio and Visual Studio, designers and
developers can collaborate more effectively using
the skills they have today to light up the Web of
tomorrow.
http//silverlight.net/
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Expression Studio
Microsoft Expression Studio takes your creative
possibilities to a new level. Studio
includes Expression Web Expression
Blend Expression Design Expression
Media Expression Media Encoder
http//www.microsoft.com/expression/
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PopFly
Microsoft Popfly (internally codenamed
Springfield) is a website that allows user to
create web pages, program snippets, and mashups
using the Microsoft Silverlight rich internet
applications runtime and the set of online tools
provided. Popfly is currently in Beta stage of
development. It requires users to log in with
their Windows Live ID, and fill-up additional
information about themselves when logging in for
the first time to use Popfly.
http//www.popfly.com/
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Google OpenSocial
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friendster

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Google OpenSocial
OpenSocial is a set of common application
programming interfaces (APIs) for web-based
social network applications, developed by Google,
and released November 1, 2007. Applications
implementing the OpenSocial APIs will be
interoperable with any social network system that
supports them A reference Implementation
Shindig Apache Open Source Project A huge
community of developers (bigger community of
users!)
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Google Friend Connect
An online service by Google that allows users on
the Internet to connect with their friends on
different websites. Joining Facebook Connect and
MySpace Data Availability, Google Friend Connect
is an Open Social application offered by Google
starting May 2008. Google Friend Connect main
focus is to simplify the connection between
social and non-social websites standardize the
handling and presentation of social applications
and content. http//www.google.com/friendconnect/

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Google Friend Connect
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Google Friend Connect
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Google Friend Connect
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Google Friend Connect

• Google Friend Connect is free but requires
  approval of your website. It requires no
  knowledge of web programming and enables any
  website to offer social applications and content
  from Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Plaxo, MySpace, Google
  Talk and others social networks. Here are some
  examples for using Google Friend Connect
• Ecommerce site Allow users to check whether
  friends purchased or review the product you are
  interested in on the product web page.
• News sites Allow users insert comments and
  opinions with their real profile.
• Organization Sites Increase marketing and
  communication within members of the organization.

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Questions? Comments?