Stephen Brown and Hussein Zedan

With contributions from Keno Buss, Thom Corah and Sascha Westendorf

Web 2.0: Hope or Hype?26 September 2007

Creativity East Midlands

http://creem.dmu.ac.uk

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Web 2.0: Hope or Hype?

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 growth

http://www.dailywireless.org/2006/11/10/web-20-growth/

Web application tools

• Web 2.0 editorshttp://www.butterflyproject.nl/

• Podcast distribution siteshttp://www.odeo.com/

• Blog construction and blog utilizationtoolsets http://www.blogger.com

Personalization Tools

• Start pages http://classic.goowy.com/index.aspxhttp://homeportals.cfempire.comhttp://www.netvibes.com/http://www.pageflakes.com/http://protopage.com/v2; http://www.start.com/http://suprglu.com/

• Search engine interfaceshttp://www.filangy.com/ http://rollyo.com/

• Visualized search Quinturahttp://www.quintura.com/

• Sound personalizing http://www.last.fm/;http://www.liveplasma.com/;http://www.pandora.com/

Business applications

• Network-based Word-Processing - group editeddocs

• http://www.writely.com/Default.aspx• Network spreadsheets - Filing expense reports

http://tracker.jot.com/• Mailbox http://www.tempinbox.com/english/• Chat, bulletin board, or list http://www.citadel.org/• To-Do-Lists http://rememberthemilk.com/• Calendars http://upcoming.org http://eventful.com/• Storage http://www.sendspace.com• Instant survey http://quimble.com/

Finding tools• Alerting services or blog filters http://blogniscient.com/

http://findory.com/ http://memeorandum.com/ http://tailrank.com/http://blogmarks.net/ http://www.topix.net/

• News aggregators http://slashdot.org/ http://diggdot.us/http://gabbr.com/ http://www.newsmob.com/http://www.shoutwire.com/ http://spinspy.com/

• Recommenders• http://digg.com/ http://d2.stevemagruder.com/• Social bookmarking http://del.icio.us/

http://www.ma.gnolia.com http://www.rawsugar.com• “Trail” of user paths http://www.surftail.com/• Wikipedia, of course, but also niche wikis

http://www.canyonwiki.com/wiki/http://www.militaryhistorywiki.org/wiki/http://scienceofspectroscopy.info/edit/

• History Timeline Wiki http://www.endeavorpub.com/wiki• Wikinews

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Science_and_technology

Social Sites

• Friendster http://friendster.com• MySpace http://myspace.com• Image sharing http://www.shutterfly.com/

http://flickr.com/ http://www.fotki.com;http://www.shutterbook.com; http://zoto.com/

• Fundraising http://givemeaning.com/• Instant store http://www.cafepress.com• Book collection? http://www.delicious-

monster.com/;http://www.librarything.com/buzz.php?

• Sharing as a game - http://www.ispott.com/

Mashups• Map Images http://www.flickrmap.com/

• Map Auctions http://www.auctionmapper.com/

• Map an archeological tour, libraries, heritagedestinations http://www.wayfaring.com/http://www.libraries411.com/http://citymap.nanaimo.ca/gmaps/heritagewalk.php

• Mapping other datasets: iSpecieshttp://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/

• Harvesting content - science fiction cover artharvesterhttp://www.krazydad.com/visco/howitworks.php

• Google maps and Audubon Society data setshttp://geobirds.com/

Mashups Plus

• Maps with feeds of images, gps reports etc.http://poly9.viavirtualearth.com/Poly9/america24%2D7/

• “Hide and Seek” mashups using Virtual Earthand MSN Messengerhttp://www.worldsbestapp.com/ViewApps.aspx

• TagClouds. terms from museum RSS feedshttp://www.revsys.com/aboutnewscloud/

• Mashups in evaluation program http://sonr.net/beta/

Tim Berners-Lee“Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. Itwas an interactive space, and I think Web 2.0is of course a piece of jargon, nobody evenknows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you isblogs and wikis, then that is people to people.But that was what the Web was supposed tobe all along. And in fact, you know, this 'Web2.0,' it means using the standards which havebeen produced by all these people workingon Web 1.0."podcast interview for IBM, September 2006

Technical Requirements

• Data Centric

• Asynchronous Communication

• User Generated Content

• Multiple Read/Write

Web2.0 Architecture

Web2.0 Compliant Application

• Collaboration

• Web Enabled

• Interactive

• Data Centric

Web 2.0 Mashups & Creativity

• http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/guide46_page1.html

• http://photozou.jp/• http://willustrator.org/• http://nota.jp/en/• http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/6123

Open Source Software

• Collaboration

• Source Code as User Generated Content

• Quality Management by Experts

• High Quality Software

Trust

Alex Halavais, an assistant professor of communication at the University atBuffalo and an active blogger, decided to put Wikipedia to the test—byinserting 13 errors into various entries. One error asserted that abolitionistFrederick Douglass had once lived in Syracuse, and another "fooled with thePeriodic Table," says Halavais. Within two and a half hours, site visitors hadcorrected all the errors.

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA475534.html

"The problem with the global village is all the global villageidiots.“ Paul Ginsparg

"You don't do good software design by committee.“ DonaldNorman

"There's no justice like angry-mob justice.“ PrincipalSeymour Skinner

http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/0385721706

4 conditions

1. Diversity

2. Independence

3. Decentralization

4. Aggregation

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