Web 2.0 timeline and future

Web 2.0 Richard Akerman NRC-CISTI December 10, 2008

Internet Librarian 2004 • http://www.infotoday.com/il2004/ 2

Internet Librarian 2008 • http://www.infotoday.com/IL2008/ • http://il2008.pbwiki.com/ 3

Overview • What is Web 2.0? • History of Internet and Web at CISTI • Web 2.0 Timeline • Government of Canada • CISTI now and future • Lifestreaming • Scholarly Web 2.0 4

Web 2.0 • “the egocentric web” • user-created content • social • DEFAULT: PUBLIC • low barrier 5

Issues • privacy (many sites not in Canada) • too many pieces too loosely joined (many user accounts) • service level 6

Unexpected Elements • Wisdom of Crowds • Zero degrees of separation • Worlds colliding (work self vs. home self) • Asymmetric, unique views (I subscribe to you, you don’t subscribe to me) 7

Not Web 2.0 • static pages with no feedback options • Semantic Web (Web 3.0) • other Internet capabilities • gaming (World of Warcraft) • content distribution (iTunes) 8

Technology Adoption • Early Adopters • General Adopters • Late Adopters 9

NRC First Light • USENET 1988 10

First NRC Web Mention • USENET 1993 11

First NRC Web Link • USENET April 1994 12

First CISTI Web Link • USENET May 1994 13

CISTI Web 1999 • http://web.archive.org/web/ 19990117033701/http://cisti.nrc.ca/cisti/ cisti.html 14

User Expertise • Basic User • Intermediate User • Advanced (“Power”) User 15

http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web 1995 http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web 1995 1998 http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web 1995 1998 1999 http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web 1995 2001 1998 1999 http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web 1995 2001 2003 1998 1999 http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web 1995 2001 2003 1998 2004 1999 http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web 1995 2001 2003 1998 2004 1999 2005 http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web 1995 2001 2003 1998 2004 1999 2005 2006 http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web 1995 2001 2003 1998 2004 1999 2005 2007 2006 http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

1990 pre-Web 1995 2001 2003 1998 2004 1999 2005 2007 2006 Oct 2008 http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0 16

The Web in 2008 • Infrastructure: blogs, wikis, RSS, commenting, bookmarking, tagging, multimedia, search • From static pages to social life of information 17

Web Interaction 18

Web Interaction http://ﬂickr.com/photos/juanpol/2854082526/ CC-BY 18

Web Interaction http://ﬂickr.com/photos/juanpol/2854082526/ CC-BY http://ﬂickr.com/photos/ppym1/405363942/ CC-BY-NC 18

Government of Canada • Prime Minister (?) • GCPEDIA • Beyond GCPEDIA 19

Prime Minister • http://pm.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?pageId=112 20

Social Netwhat? • Twitter and other tools only make sense if you remember: • DEFAULT: PUBLIC • they’re not talking to you • they’re talking to their social network 21

Twitter Zero • these new tools are entirely social 22

Twitter (Many) • Twitter only makes sense if you have a social network 23

Zero Degrees Point 1 • http://friendfeed.com/e/4968b5f8-4ea0- e9bd-13e9-7c30c99d0ac8/Bio-IT-World- Search-and-Deploy/ 24

Zero Degrees Point 2 • http://twitter.com/scilib/status/1013389500 • http://twitter.com/whereivebeen/status/ 1017093025 25

Lifestreaming • http://www.wordspy.com/2007/11/ lifestreaming.html 26

Facebook • What happens in Facebook, stays in Facebook... sort of • “enclosed garden” • Within Facebook, default = public • in particular Wall posts are public 27

Facebook Stats • over 120 million users • over 10 Billion photos • over 30 million photos added daily • http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php? statistics 28

Facebook Issues • Trojans • group & page integration very poor • managing privacy is complex • applications have full access to your information (including friends) and may expose that info on the web • ideal for data mining & surveillance 29

Lifestream: Facebook 30

FriendFeed • solves a problem you may not have • low barrier to participation 31

Lifestream: FriendFeed 1 • it’s all about everyone 32

Lifestream: FriendFeed 2 • it’s all about me 33

Aggregation: FriendFeed • it’s all about a topic 34

Web 2.0 Warnings • they’re new, so no one knows what they’re talking about • they’re new, so no one knows the business model • we have short “novelty spans” • the future is unevenly distributed 35

There are many copies • new + no business model = endless proliferation of sites 36

Science Social Net 37

Science Social Net http://www.slideshare.net/neilfws/what-can-science-networking-online-do-for-you-presentation/ 37

HELP • Five Weeks to a Social Library http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/ 38

Web 2.0 timeline and future

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