Web 2.0: It's All about Social Networking

Web 2.0
It’s All about Social Networking
Eileen O’Shea
Infopeople
[email_address]
April 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…

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/

Are you blogging this?

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

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