Library2.0. Socialnetworking. Socialnetworks. Im. ://URLFAN - How popular is your website in the Web 2.0 world? TheLibraryRoutesProject. Did You Know 4.0. Share your discoveries. Populair.eu. Socialthing! Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web. Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard. While we’re not there yet, all the major browser players besides Microsoft are aligned and ready for the next phase, which will include such things as the ability to run 3D games and movies in the browser without additional plug-ins.
But Google wants to take it one step further with a brand new method of communication for this new era. It’s called Google Wave. Everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web now, but imagine if you could tie those two forms of communication together and add a load of functionality on top of it. At its most fundamental form, that’s essentially what Wave is. Having seen a lengthy demonstration, as ridiculous as it may sound, I have to agree. Features Maybe you want to add another friend to the wave. And from here we go much deeper. A New Web. BananaSlug - Long Tail Search Engine. Web20servicesforsmallerunderfundedlibraries---canedinstitute2008.pdf (application/pdf Object) Keyboardr. Web 2.0: Making Friends / Web 3.0: Making Money. Web 2.0 is really at its core about user interface.
Interface technologies such as Flash and AJAX have allowed web pages to be more active and engaging and to really become application-like. By and large, we have used this power to make social applications. Unfortunately while these social applications are entertaining, they are, for the most part, not making us money, and they are not providing any great enhancement to our productivity. In fact many would argue they are robbing us of our productivity.
But Web 3.0 is different. Web 3.0 is about the data. Many people will refer to the Web 3.0 as the Semantic Web. Ok, so how does open access to data and new organizations for data lead to making money? It’s simple. Direct value is value that you get from realizing that there is a relationship between two items that your human mind would not have made. Meet Ivy Bean - the world's oldest Facebooker aged 102. By Claire Bates Updated: 10:38 GMT, 15 August 2008 Enlarge Ivy shows off her gold medal in Bradford's Over 75s' Olympics Ivy Bean is a great-grandmother with a difference. At 102 years old she has joined the social networking revolution and become the oldest person on Facebook. The former mill worker, who was born in Bradford in 1905, showed an interest in the website, after hearing care workers at her home talk about the phenomenon.
Although Mrs Bean currently only has nine Facebook friends, she said she 'loves being online' and is hoping for many more. Her carers have set up a group called 'Oldest person on Facebook' and regularly post news, photos and videos about their most famous resident. The most recent video shows the sprightly centenarian competing in Bradford's Over-75 Olympics. Despite being 27 years older than the entry age she clinched gold in the frisbee throwing event yesterday. The world has changed radically during Ivy's lifetime. A simple small url service. Video: Social Media in Plain English | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English.
I’m sure you’ve heard the buzz. Social Media may be the next big thing. What’s it all about? Let’s take a visit to Scoopville, a town that’s famous for ice cream. For over 20 years, Big Ice Cream Company has been making high quality ice cream with a big factory in town. A few years back, the company did focus groups and found out that they could maximize profits by offering three flavors: Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry. The residents of the town were content. The Smiths decided to make pineapple ice cream. Of course, some ice cream was more popular than others and that was okay. It didn’t always come from a factory. When they arrived, however, there seemed to be a problem. Franklin had an idea for his ice cream. At a glance, visitors could tell what his ice cream was all about, and learn from people like them. Soon, a few things became clear.
The combination of new technology and new ways to work with customers helped the residents feel like a unique community. Is social bookmarking worth the trouble? | Broadcasting Brain. Hyperconnectivity_idc.pdf (application/pdf Object) How Little Do Users Read? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) Summary: On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely. We've known since our first studies of how users read on the Web that they typically don't read very much. Scanning text is an extremely common behavior for higher-literacy users; our recent eyetracking studies further validate this finding.
The only thing we've been missing is a mathematical formula to quantify exactly how much (or how little) people read online. Now, thanks to new data, we have this as well. The Research Study For full details, see the following academic paper: Harald Weinreich, Hartmut Obendorf, Eelco Herder, and Matthias Mayer: "Not Quite the Average: An Empirical Study of Web Use," in the ACM Transactions on the Web, vol. 2, no. 1 (February 2008), article #5. In the study, the authors instrumented 25 users' browsers and recorded extended information about everything they did as they went about their normal Web activities.
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