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Web 2.0: Simple Tools & Smart People Ethan Zuckerman September 27, 2007

mosaic by stabillo boss

mosaic by

participatory web API mashup remix web services bookmarking tagging photosharing citizen journalism blogging podcasting civic media ideocasting web 2.0 social networking vlogging community media folksonomy social media wiki XML semantic web RSS read/write media

Email - 1965. Internet Email - 1971. Mailing lists - 1975.

1978 - BBSs Bulletin Board Systems Ward Christensen - CBBS

1979 - Usenet. (And the invention of the emoticon -)

1979 - MUDs - Multi-User Dungeons

MMORPGs - World of Warcraft

1982 - Minitel - Chess = Chat

CERN web page in 1990

1995 - Geocities and Tripod: Personal Homepages

1997 - weblogs

1995: Ward Cunningham’s wiki

Wikipedia - 2001

it’s not about the tools. mosaic by stabillo boss

it’s about the people.

map by telegeography.com

photo by laffy4k

photo by Esthr -100 million handsets in sub-Saharan Africa - 300 million handset in China - 2.2 billion worldwide, rising to 3.3 billion in 2010 - 97% of Tanzanians say they can access a phone

Interactive Radio for Justice featuring DRC deputy minister for defense, head of military operations for MONUC

phones collect. web disseminates.

activists are lead users

Web 1.0 photo by Marvin (PA) Web 2.0

our dark secret photo by Sbrimbillina

screencap by janet.powell

technorati.com

alexa.com

when 100 million people speak, you need a ﬁlter.

buzzmonitor - developmentblogs.org

selection, translation, context

it’s not about the tools it’s about who they connect sometimes you have to ignore the geeks (me included) ethanzuckerman.com/blog ethan@globalvoicesonline.org

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