emergent technologies

Exploring Emergent

Technologies

SPLAT

Emergent Technologies = Social Software:

Online services & tools that enable users to connect, collaborate, customize, and share content; all of which are influenced and enhanced by group dynamics.

What’s so different from regular software?

“indie” software & developers Evolving (forever Beta) Free Shareable Customizable Growing Web 2.0 concept

A social phenomenon referring to an approach to creating and distributing Web content itself, characterized by open communication, decentralization of authority, freedom to share and re-use

Small software companies offering free, innovative, web-based software

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

What’s driving Web 2.0? Open Source Savvy users/developers Browser functionality Scripts (AJAX, Ruby) Plug-ins Virtual communities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Show & tell

Web 2.0

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mozorro/105664713/in/photostream/

Categories we’ll discuss today:

RSS News Readers / Aggregators Blogs Social Networks Instant Messaging

News Readers use:

Real Simple Syndication Rich Site Summary XML code summarizes web

content, sends feed to aggregator

http://albertsonslibrary.blogspot.com/atom.xmlShow & tell

News Readers:

Website subscription Single interface Updates automatically Automated web surfing Share your subscriptions

2 Frames

Feed display

Feed List

News Readers

Subscribe using URL Click a chicklet

Bookmarking

What is a weblog?

A “what’s new” page, updated frequently, detailing thoughts, issues, links, and minutiae of an individual.

Web + log = weblog or Blog

Blogger = one who blogs

Weblogs

Free blogging platforms

Anatomy of a Blog

Banner/title of Blog

Most recent “post” on top, usually

dated

Blogger, or person(s)

responsible for the post, may

include a “profile” of

BloggerOlder posts move to

bottom Archived

posts

You can comment on content

Weblogs:Anatomy

Web 2.0 developments

Social software as response to corporate control

Individuals share software solutions Greater choice in functionality Shareable content Easier dissemination of content Always Beta

Web 2.0 momentum Newer publication formats Hybrids Still evolving Corporate vs. maverick

software Shifting strategies

So what?

Wonderful! Just wonderful!...So much for instilling them with a sense of awe.

From Web 2.0 meme to Library 2.0

Meme: a unit of cultural information that represents a basic idea that can be transferred from one individual to another, and subjected to mutation, crossover, and adaptation.

www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/teaching/SimSS/glossary.html

Social Software – LIBRARY 2.0

Web-based, socially-tested, shareable software utilities and conceptual thinking

+ Library resources, services,

research expertise, and core community service

Social Software – LIBRARY 2.0

Concept is too broad Library model is just fine Varies by library type Lack of concrete examples Divide of digital/non-digital

natives Control

Social Software – LIBRARY 2.0

Constant change is replacing the older model of upgrade cycles and static services

Comparable tools Anytime/anywhere access &

services Personalized services

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_2.0

LIBRARY 2.0 A model for library service that reflects a

transition within the library world in the way that services are delivered to library users

Harness the library user’s ideas in both design and implementation of services

Harvest and integrate ideas and products from peripheral fields into library service models

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_2.0

LIBRARY 2.0

Integrate change Develop tools & services Encourage innovation Enhance models that work Educate Experiment Beta works