Web 2.0It’s All about Social Networking

Eileen O’SheaInfopeople

eileen@infopeople.orgApril 2007

Web 2.0 Is Us

Seriously.

• Generally refers to web-based tools that enhance “social networking” - people connecting with other people

• Blogs, wikis, photo sharing, video sharing, bookmark sharing, you name it sharing

What Is Web 2.0?

• A few authors, many commenters• CMS authoring• Movable Type

• http://infoblog.infopeople.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi• Blogger• http://waynnandholly.blogspot.com/

• Free or low-cost to create

Blogs

• Tame the Web - Michael Stephens• http://www.tametheweb.com/

• Librarian.net - Jessamyn West• http://librarian.net

• The Shifted Librarian - Jenny Levine• http://theshiftedlibrarian.com

Some Librarian Blogs

• Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County• http://plcmcl2-about.blogspot.com/

• USC Libraries E-Resources• http://usceresources.blogspot.com/

• LaGuardia Community College Library• http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/library/blog/whatsnew.html

Some Library Blogs

• Multiple authors• Simple editing, CMS-based• MediaWiki, PBWiki

• Classic example: wikipedia.org

Wikis

• Infopeople Wikis• http://wiki.infopeople.org

• LibrarySuccess: A Best Practices Wiki• http://www.libsuccess.org/

• ALA Wikis• http://wikis.ala.org/

• Internet Librarian Wiki• http://internetlibrarian.pbwiki.com/

Library-related Wikis

Photo Sharing Many services:

Flickr, Shutterfly, Picasa (Google) Tag your photos

Find people with common interests, find similar photos

Link your photos to your blog or your wiki

Video Sharing Digital cameras have made video easy It’s not about high quality Tagging videos

It’s all about social networking Several services:

YouTube, Google Videos, StumbleVideo

Social Bookmarking Browser bookmarks are SO yesterday Share them with the world, and tag them! Services:

del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us/ digg - http://digg.com/ cluztr - http://cluztr.com/ StumbeUpon - http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Okay, great. But how do I keep track of all of this stuff? RSS!

In Plain English…

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RSS “Really Simple Syndication” What’s syndication?

It’s the ability to subscribe to a site’s content

Think of a newspaper comic strip like Dilbert, syndicated to hundreds of newspapers

News Aggregators Aggregators take the “feed” from a blog

and let you see new content Aggregators can be stand-alone apps

OR Aggregators can be web-based

Stand-alone Aggregators Net NewsWire, Sharp Reader Nifty integration with your computer’s

browser and can display pics and let you listen to podcasts, etc.

Read content offline Problem: you have to have your

computer with you to read your feeds!

Web-based Aggregators Read your feeds anywhere! All you

need is a web browser & an Internet connection

Bloglines, Google Reader, Newsgator Problem: you have to be online to read

your feeds

Podcasts Taking it to the next step, podcasts are

audio blogs MP3 format Can be played on your computer OR

an MP3 player Non-proprietary format so are easily

portable

Library Podcasts Infopeople podcasts

http://infopeople.org/resources/podcasts.html Sunnyvale Public Library podcasts

http://www.librarypodcasts.org/ Arizona State University Library podcasts

https://thelibrarychannel.blog.asu.edu/?triedWebauth=1

How to Create a Podcast Roll your own:

A recorder A microphone A blog or other service to syndicate your podcasts

Services like Hipcast or Gabcast Phone in your podcast Often time limits Quality generally lower

Vodcasts Like podcasts but with video Generally short - under 10 minutes

(YouTube limits videos to 10 minutes) Format is often Flash (all content on

YouTube is converted to Flash)

Vodcast Share Sites YouTube Google Video StumbleVideo All accept wmv, mov, mpg, or avi

formats for uploading

How to Create a Vodcast Digital cameras are by far the easiest

way to go! Length is only limited by the size of the

storage card Format is usually AVI or MOV, both

formats acceptable to YouTube Of course, digital video cameras are

great, too!

Roll Your Own Searches Rollyo LibraryThing WorldCat All are customizable, easy to create

links for your web page or blog

Web 2.0 & Online Learning Old way: LMS

Blackboard, WebCT, etc. Password-protected restricted content

New ways Edu-blogging Podcasts Media sharing

Then integrate it! Angel & Second Life

Web Apps Old way: Office New way:

Google Docs & Spreadsheets http://docs.google.com/ Word processor, spreadsheet Compatible with Word Collaborate with others Free!

Mashups Take a couple of tools, put them together and

make a new tool! Google My Maps

http://maps.google.com/

iLife Link your iTunes library contents to the world and see

who else likes what you like! Zillow - Google Maps + market values of homes

http://www.zillow.com/

Web 2.0 & Instant Messaging AIM is sooo Web 1.0, right? Twitter

http://twitter.com/ Keeping everybody up-to-date on what you’re

doing, one boring detail at a time ;-) Meebo

http://meebo.com IM anybody on any chat service wherever you

are

Communities Library2.0 Ning

http://library20.ning.com/ MySpace

http://myspace.com/ Facebook

http://facebook.com/

Next Generation Communities Remember Dungeons & Dragons? Remember the Sims? Take it one step further:

Second Life!

What Is Second life? “Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 5,855,848 people from around the globe.”

No, but really, what IS Second life? The average age of users is 32, and the

median age of users is 36 There are $5 million USD in virtual

transactions per month conducted between users

25,000 users log in daily Anshe Chung, Second Life's most notable land

baron, makes $175k per year flipping virtual real estate.

--March 2006 Google Talk

Hi! I’m Eileen Gapchenko

Why It Won’t Take Over the Internet Tomorrow System requirements:

Internet Connection: Cable or DSL Computer Processor: 1.6GHz Pentium 4 or Athlon

2000+ or better Computer Memory: 512MB or better Video/Graphics Card:

nVidia GeForce FX 5600, GeForce 6600, or better OR ATI Radeon 9600, X600, or better

Pretty stiff!

Libraries in Second Life Second Life Library

secondlife://info island/97/255/33 San Jose State University School of Library &

Information Science http://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/128/128

Consumer Health Library http://slurl.com/secondlife/Consumer%20Health

%20Library,%20Info%20Island%20II%20/227/202/23/

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Ways To Keep Learning Five Weeks to a Social Library

http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/ free online course

23 Learning 2.0 Things http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/ the original tech challenge!

Infopeople’s 23 Web 2.0 Things http://our23things.infopeople.org/ our take on the PLCMC’s challenge