Social Web Technologies Dr. Harry Chen CMSC 491S/691S January 28, 2008

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Source : http://www.jeffro2pt0.com/web-10-and-web-20-visual-differences/

Idea: Web 2.0 Tim O’Reilly coined the term “Web 2.0” to describe a new generation of web sites that appear after the .com bubble burst. Web as a platform Harnessing collective intelligence Data is the next Intel Inside End of software release cycle Lightweight programming model Software above the level of a single device Rich user experience Reading : http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Tim O’Reilly coined the term “Web 2.0” to describe a new generation of web sites that appear after the .com bubble burst.

Web as a platform

Harnessing collective intelligence

Data is the next Intel Inside

End of software release cycle

Lightweight programming model

Software above the level of a single device

Rich user experience

Social in Web 2.0 Be able to social with other users and produce user-created content are key characteristics of Web 2.0 Web 2.0 encouraged many innovations RSS, tagging, Ajax, JSON, web maps, blogs and micro-blogs, wiki, RDF, mashup, REST, social network platform and more…

Be able to social with other users and produce user-created content are key characteristics of Web 2.0

Web 2.0 encouraged many innovations

RSS, tagging, Ajax, JSON, web maps, blogs and micro-blogs, wiki, RDF, mashup, REST, social network platform and more…

What will we study in this class? How social web technologies can improve people’s productivity How to develop social web application How to think about the Social Web from a cultural and business perspective How to create the next Facebook, YouTube, del.icio.us and Flickr! 

How social web technologies can improve people’s productivity

How to develop social web application

How to think about the Social Web from a cultural and business perspective

How to create the next Facebook, YouTube, del.icio.us and Flickr! 

Circles of Technologies Social Web Folksonomy & Tagging Mashups Geospatial Web The Semantic Web Blogs

Topic 1: Social Web Trace the Social Web history… How do people participate on the Web? What’s the value of user-created content? What’re the implications of building a sociable Web?

Trace the Social Web history…

How do people participate on the Web?

What’s the value of user-created content?

What’re the implications of building a sociable Web?

Topic 2: Folksonomy & Tagging What’s tagging? Why people hate and love tagging Can people find consensus while working in chaos? Tagging beyond keywords

What’s tagging?

Why people hate and love tagging

Can people find consensus while working in chaos?

Tagging beyond keywords

Topic 3: Mashups Why mashups are better than your grandfather’s Web application Learn mashup Ajax RSS, GeoRSS OpenSearch REST Google Maps API …

Why mashups are better than your grandfather’s Web application

Learn mashup

Ajax

RSS, GeoRSS

OpenSearch

REST

Google Maps API

…

Topic 4: Geospatial Web Why location information is hot How Google Maps changed the way we view information Tools for programming geospatial web applications

Why location information is hot

How Google Maps changed the way we view information

Tools for programming geospatial web applications

Topic 5: the Semantic Web Why people are crazy about Tim Berners-Lee’s big idea Why XML is not good enough for describing Web information Beyond SQL, I want to query the Web!

Why people are crazy about Tim Berners-Lee’s big idea

Why XML is not good enough for describing Web information

Beyond SQL, I want to query the Web!

Topic 6: Blogs Got blog? Why do people blog? How can you profit from blogging? How can you build mashups using free blogging API

Got blog?

Why do people blog?

How can you profit from blogging?

How can you build mashups using free blogging API

Circles of Technologies Social Web Folksonomy & Tagging Mashups Geospatial Web The Semantic Web Blogs

Homework due next class Go to http://socialwebtechnologies.blogspot.com Join the class’s blog Join the class’s discussion group Join the class’s gnizr network Post 1+ blog related to Social Web Save 1+ bookmarks in gnizr

Go to http://socialwebtechnologies.blogspot.com

Join the class’s blog

Join the class’s discussion group

Join the class’s gnizr network

Post 1+ blog related to Social Web

Save 1+ bookmarks in gnizr

Reading Material Find suggested reading Go to gnizr and login Click “Community” Find user “hchen1” Find required reading Go hchen1’s folder “Required Reading” For the reading of a particular class, look for bookmarks tagged: “forClass:[class-date]”

Find suggested reading

Go to gnizr and login

Click “Community”

Find user “hchen1”

Find required reading

Go hchen1’s folder “Required Reading”

For the reading of a particular class, look for bookmarks tagged: “forClass:[class-date]”