Web 2.0: An Introduction

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Web 2.0 An Introduction

• Chris Lerch
• Library Technical Services

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What is Web 2.0?

• Asecond-generation of Internet-based services
  such as social networking sites, wikis,
  communication tools, and folksonomies that let
  people collaborate and share information online
  in previously unavailable ways.
• --OReilly Media

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Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0
Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Reading Writing Companies
Communities HTML XML, AJAX Surfing RSS T
axonomy Folksonomy Owning Sharing Web
Forms Web Applications Dialup Broadband Web
Pages Blogs AOL, eBay, Internet
Explorer Flickr, Del.icio.us, Digg
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Folksonomys

• A folksonomy is an Internet-based information
  retrieval methodology consisting of
  collaboratively generated, open-ended labels that
  categorize content such as Web pages, online
  photographs, and Web links.
• -- Wikipedia

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Tagging

• Classifying information in multiple ways
• Popular uses include files, email messages, web
  pages, bookmarks, digital pictures, other
  interests

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Social Bookmarking

• Del.icio.us
• Remotely store your bookmarks
• Make them public or private
• Tag them
• Discover what others are sharing and tagging

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Photo Sharing

• Flickr
• Upload digital photos
• Tag and share
• Links created for blogging, etc.

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Collaboration

• Wikis
• A web page that can be edited by multiple people
• Wikipedia
• The largest Wiki

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Online Applications

• Google Documents
• Word processing and spreadsheets
• Stored on external server, accessible from any
  computer
• Can be shared
• Google Calendar
• Online, can be viewed, subscribed to and shared
• Zoho, Ajax Write, iRows, NumSum, 30Boxes, Kiko
• Google competitors

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News

• Digg
• User submitted content, voted on by other users
• Newsvine
• A mix of user submitted, user created and
  traditional news content

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Blogs

• Professional and personal
• Web Based
• Blogger
• Wordpress
• Server Based
• Movable Type
• Wordpress

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RSS

• Really Simple Syndication
• Subscribe to web pages, blogs, podcasts
• Readers
• Client based (Outlook, NewsGator)
• Web based (Bloglines, Google Reader)

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Whats Next?

• Full Office Suites
• More customized search
• Mashups
• Next generation of social sites (MySpace, etc.)

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Questions
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Check out

• www.getfirefox.com
• del.icio.us
• www.flickr.com
• www.wiki.com
• www.wikipedia.com
• docs.google.com
• www.zoho.com
• www.ajaxwrite.com
• www.irows.com
• www.numsum.com

• calendar.google.com
• www.30boxes.com
• www.kiko.com
• www.digg.com
• www.newsvine.com
• www.blogger.com
• www.wordpress.com
• www.bloglines.com
• reader.google.com