SREB Web2.0

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[edit] How I learned to stop worrying and love Web 2.0

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/maisonbisson/109211670/

[edit] I have been online a long time

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  • OK, maybe not that long...

[edit] And like many people, I wanted to understand the present in terms of the past

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  • The growth in the number of people connected online (or that more and more of them have never lived when the Web wasn't around) doesn't matter
  • The growing connectivity (over 50% of the world's population now owns a cell phone) and computing speeds is just an incremental change
  • Web 2.0? Just a bunch of sites done by Mac designers
  • Blogs...whatever, just glorified personal home pages
  • Wikis...yeah, been there, done that

[edit] But eventually I came to see that the future is going to be much different than the past

  • In 2006, more than one billion people are connected to the Internet
  • In 2007, more than three billion people (50% of the world's population) carry mobile telephones.
  • The 2010 freshman class has never known a world without the Web.
  • AJAX, XHTML, Flash, REST... - this ain't no cgi-bin, this ain't no <blink> tag.


Karl Fisch's Did You Know? Remix


[edit] What this has to do with Web 2.0

  • Web 2.0 should be seen as BOTH a RESULT of these massive changes in connectivity, computing power and network literacy AS WELL AS a RESPONSE to it

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[edit] Finally, I came to stop worrying and learned to love Web 2.0

  • But it took a long time, and it happened bit by bit. This is the story.

from - http://thinglink.org/thing:203psf

[edit] How I learned to love...simplicity, usability and the joy of use

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from http://www.andybudd.com/presentations/dcontruct05/
  • Actually, it's not so much a case of coming to love these as these being what people love about software
  • 'lowered' barrier to entry
  • Flickr - making adding metadata fun! http://www.flickr.com/photos/upload/


[edit] How I learned to love...Rich Web-based Applications

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from http://blogs.zoho.com/general/document-vs-web-document/

[edit] How I learned to love...Openness


from - http://www.flickr.com/photos/slippek/25069593/
  • Openness has been a major component in the rash of current innovation we are seeing
  • Open Content, Open APIs and Open Source
  • For some of us, it was hard to see how this was any different

[edit] ...Open Content

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[edit] ...Open API


http://www.flickr.com/photos/harry/542628863/ which was a modification of

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathangibbs/70425448/


[edit] ...Open Source

  • Like many people, my love of open source likely began with Apache
  • You really start to appreciate the power of open source when someone else fixes a problem for you,
    • for free,
    • in 20 minutes.


[edit] How I learned to love...Syndication and Aggregation


[edit] How I learned to love...Microcontent and Linkability

  • The power of the URL
    • One thing few people appreciate is how the unique address of each blog post helped blogs explode
    • This has been further used through extensions like CommentPress - cf. http://web.nmc.org/communication/
  • The power of the <embed> tag


[edit] How I learned to love...Tagging



[edit] How I learned to love...the Mass Amateurization of Everything

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[edit] How I learned to love...Peer Production and Participatory Culture


from http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/2061653308/


[edit] How I learned to love...User-Centered AND Social Software

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from - http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenem/11696663/
  • A major turn in Web 2.0 is around user-centric design and motivation
    • e.g. instead of building institutional "repositories" building personal ones that end up benefiting the institutional need as well
  • Similarly, "social software" puts each user at the centre of their own social network, which can be built on top of tags, resources, relationships, almost anything

[edit] How I learned to love...Mashups

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[edit] The End

  • Innovation and Adoption is happening because of
    • Easy to Use Apps
    • Openess (of Content, of APIs)
    • Some specific technology innovations
  • More than anything, Web 2.0 is showing us that
    • by not trying to control it all...
    • you create the conditions in which creativity and innovation can flourish


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