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1. Slide 1: Web 2.0 and Blogging Richard Akerman October 2006
2. Slide 2: Overview (1) • A brief history of the future • What is Web 2.0? • Timeline
3. Slide 3: Overview (2) • LibraryThing • Geo-everything • Science to the People • Blogging
4. Slide 4: A brief history of the future • Design for Dreaming - 1956 • Where is my flying car? - 2000
5. Slide 5: What is Web 2.0? • No one knows • Ask a teenager • http://www.veotag.com/player/?u=wgcqpthubc • The personal web - powered by people
6. Slide 7: Up, Up, and... ?
7. Slide 8: Timeline • Amazon - 1995 YouTube Amazon • Google - 1998 LibraryThing • Flickr - February 2004 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 • YouTube - February 2005 Google • LibraryThing - August 29, 2005 Flickr
8. Slide 9: Challenges • Spam • Idiots • Business Models
9. Slide 12: LibraryThing • Your library • Add books • Tags • Pssst! • Social: Ratings, Reviews, Shared Books • Groups / Blog
10. Slide 13: LibraryThing - Tags
11. Slide 14: LibraryThing - Recommendations
12. Slide 15: The Social Life of Books
13. Slide 16: Geo-everything • Google / Yahoo / Microsoft Live maps • Google Earth • Flickr photo Maps
14. Slide 17: Google Earth
15. Slide 18: Google Earth - Zoom
16. Slide 19: Flickr photo Map
17. Slide 20: Flickr photo Map
18. Slide 21: Flickr photo Map
19. Slide 22: Flickr photo Map
20. Slide 23: Science to the people • Stardust@Home • NASA Clickworkers • Transitsearch • Systemic
21. Slide 24: Blog Growth
22. Slide 25: Science Blogging • http://scienceblogs.com/ • http://blogs.nature.com/ • http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/ • http://blogs.msdn.com/escience/
23. Slide 26: Blogging • CISTI expertise • Reichardt, Randy and Geoff Harder. 2005. “Weblogs: Their Use and Application in Science and Technology Libraries.” Science & Technology Libraries, 25(3): 105-116. available at http://stlq.info/blogstl.pdf
24. Slide 27: Questions 2.0?