Scary, interesting, fun, creative, Exciting!

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Community & Information Portal for Engineers

2006

GE Pays $600M to Hearst

Déjà vu?

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Typical day – 94 million are online and here is what they are doing

Health information

Pew Research

"The result is the equivalent of a massive software upgrade for the entire Web, what some commentators have taken to calling Web 2.0. Essentially, the Web is shifting from an international library of interlinked pages to an information ecosystem, where data circulate like nutrients in a rain forest."

Stephen Johnson, Discover Magazine

Web as information ecosystem

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Blogs Live

Your Voice on the Web & Interactivity & Connection

Journal’s editors blog

Offers another communication channel with our customers

Honeywell

Collation of life science blogs

Impact Factor meets Blog Factor

ScienceConnect?

Users create content, not just consume

Media incorporates user generated content

Photo:natekoechley's

Link to flickr

Domain Specific Application using RSS &Taxonomy

Syndicate & expose your content

Use of Web Services in an information portal

RSS and changing user behavior

The new home page?

My Personalized Information Portal

AJAX: Cruyff?

Adding value to commodity content

Personalized Content

Recommended Article

Personalize & Aggregate InformationUsers are in control!

TagsNothing new for us, but offers a bridge between structure and meaning

Social Bookmarking tool for scientific community

Track his interests, opportunity to connect

Find Similar People

Use to “park” your thoughts

Wikis

Users are contributing and enriching the data (and publishing)

Data is the next “Intel inside”

Users: the new editors, they review, comment & decide on top stories

Publishers as broadcasters

Remix data to create new applications

Users distribute the content for publishers

Nature’s Avian Flu Mashup using Google Earth

Networking & Profiling

Find connections

Generation of web natives

Social Web

Groups & Forums

Social Networks

Connecting Business People

No, but niche market with potential ad $

Social Network based on SolidWorks

How Amazon is changing?

Involve the users, enable them to connect to others

Create networks from a scientific publication

Grouping & Rating Peers?

Create a value index for scientists relations to each other?

Research Buddy?

User participation is key

Researcher’s profile

Enable scientists (users) to discover, organize, collaborate and share knowledge

Think of the Web as communication, dissemination and innovation platform

Social Media + Web 2.0