Web2.0 2012 - lesson 1

Web 2.0 blog, wiki, tag, social network: what are they, how to use them and why they are important

This material is distributed under the Creative Commons "Attribution - NonCommercial - Share Alike - 3.0", available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ . Part of the slides is the result of a welcome distance collaboration with prof. Roberto Polillo, University Milan Bicocca ( http://www.rpolillo.it )

Program * Introduction, course program and start course tools * New Web trends * The "old" Web and Web 2.0 * Web 2.0 in general * What is a blog * Microblogging - Twitter * What is a wiki * Wikipedia in theory and in practice * Technical Web 2.0 Specifications (Ajax, RSS, ...) * Tagging and social networks (Flickr, facebook, ...) in theory and in practice * The Google World: the algorithm, docs.google, Android, ... * Web 2.0 and Social characteristics : users number and characteristics * Social bookmarking and mash-up in theory and in practice Some theory: * Metcalfe's Law, Reed and Pareto, power curves, long tail, network theory, ...

Presentation Course organization: Web 2.0 and others about communication Web 2.0 experiences: blogs, wikis and social networks (R/W) Use of 2.0 tools for the course: starting from the wiki http://camerino20.wiki-site.com/index.php Evaluation based on - your work during lessons - exercises on web sites of the course - final presentation of your work (use “understandable” nicknames!) Language: if you have any doubt or any question: please stop me!

Presentation
Facebook
MySpace
Linkedin
Twitter
Flickr
YouTube
Slideshare
Google+
Blogger
Wordpress
Wikimedia
Wikipedia
Google Docs
Google Earth
iPhone
iPad
How many of you use ... self-presentation: why we all are here?

the Web Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM (Information Revolution) http://www.worldofends.com
The Internet isn't complicated
The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement
The Internet is stupid
Adding value to the Internet lowers its value
All the Internet's value grows on its edges
Money moves to the suburbs
The Internet has three virtues:
a. No one owns it b. Everyone can use it c. Anyone can improve it

the Web Tim Berners-Lee (1995): "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP Protocol and Domain Name System ideas and – Ta-da! – the World Wide Web!” basic architecture:

the Web today http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm http://www.hitwise.com/us/resources/data-center Net Neutrality: - "dumb, minimal network" with smart terminals, vs. the previous paradigm of the smart network with dumb terminals - no data discrimination (all bits are equal) - access freedom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality http://www.savetheinternet.com/

web history (by Polillo) CERN World Wide Web Mosaic (NCSA) W3C by Tim Berners-Lee Netscape IPO, MS IE, Amazon, eBay NASDAQ Boom and fall Google IPO; Firefox WEB 1.0 WEB 2.0 crisis prehistory AOL buys Netscape; Google start 9/11 Napster Financial Crisis crisis 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 90

the Web today World web sites – 1995-2011 ( http://www.netcraft.com )
the curve follows the 2009 crisis and the current recovery
big increment in 2011: see http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/

the Web today KeyTrends from http://www.readwriteweb.com/ :
Location (eg http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=179386
App Stores: http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/ ma anche https://market.android.com/?hl=en e http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011
Internet of things: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-internet-of-things-infographic/
Mobile: next lesson
Structured Data: Open (LInked) Data - final lesson

the Web today Top Web sites
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8562801.stm
More data on the Web:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/
press: http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/stats/2011/03/index.aspx

the Web today
Agosto 2009
Google.com
Yahoo!
Facebook
Youtube
Windows live
Msn
Blogger.com
Wikipedia
Baidu  (cn search engine)
Yahoo Giappone
myspace
Google India
Google Germania
Twitter
qq.com  (cn social network )
R.Polillo - Ottobre 2010
from www.alexa.com see update at:
http://www.alexa.com/topsites
(also by Country, by Category)
Agosto 2010
Google.com
Facebook
Youtube
Yahoo!
Windows live
Baidu.com
Wikipedia
Blogger.com
Msn
Twitter
Qq.com
Yahoo Giappone
Google India
Taobao.com (cn)
Amazon
Yahoo!
Msn
Google.com
eBay
Amazon
Microsoft.com
MySpace
Google.co.uk
Aol.com
Go.com
2005

exercise 1
Send me (carlo.vaccari@unicam.it) a mail with your name and surname
Go to the wiki http://camerino20.wiki-site.com/index.php/Pagina_principale define a user to access
Create your personal page page in the wiki and add infos about you and links to your websites
In your page you will write ALL practices and exercises: start writing there what are your expectations by the course (needs, interests, ...)

Web2.0 2012 - lesson 1

by Carlo Vaccari

Accessibility

Categories

Upload Details

Usage Rights

1 Embed 1

Statistics

Web2.0 2012 - lesson 1 Presentation Transcript