Web 2.0 refers to second-generation Internet-based services that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users. It allows people to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where people are limited to the passive viewing of content. The term also refers to the trend towards greater user control over how and what information is shared.

1. Web 2.0 ? What is it? Why do I care? What is it to me?

2. Information Superhighway?

3. Information Superhighway Popular collective name for the Internet and other related large-scale computer networks.

4. Nam June Paik, a 20th century South Korean born American video artist, claims to have coined the term in 1974.

5. The term was popularized by former Vice President, Al Gore in the early 1990’s.

6. Super. . . what? The Information superhighway started changing. People started looking at the Internet as a new place to. . .

7. Colonize!

8. Populate!

9. Build Words

10. … the sky is the limit

11. To the moon, Alice!

12. But . . . what is it, really? What has the super highway become?

13. Tools Goods Services Information Entertainment Social Networking

14. Sounds like a mall or a town or your own little store. Lets see that again. . .

15. Tools Radio Shack-ish, Drugstore Goods Retail, specialty stores Services Banking, dog license, appts Information Media outlets, Libraries

16. Entertainment Music, video, books, clubs Social Networking Clubs, associations, regular meetings

17. cool tools

18. Adobe Voice to Text Here is the path on your pc… Start Menu Control Panel Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices Speech Text to Speech Test & choose your voice

19. Adobe Voice to Text cool tool

20. Adobe Voice to Text Download any pdf file to your computer. Open Adobe Reader, and open it from Adobe Reader. Choose View Read out loud Read this page only Read to end of document

21. Library Thing social software for us bookish types http:// www.librarything.com / Offers a widget for your blog Catalog your own collection, or a small library or bookstore. Through Library of Congress and Amazon.com and more. Why not? Its addicting, useful and you get to peek at what others are reading. (Tim Spalding)

22. The Flickr show http://www.flickr.com/

23. Delicious (just type delicious in Google) http://del.icio.us/ Don’t miss the Hot List

24. Rochelle Carr Notes can be found here: http://cali-librarian.livejournal.com/

25. Widgets and Gadgets Yahoo http://widgets.yahoo.com/ Google http://desktop.google.com/plugins/

26. Slide.com cool tool http://www.slide.com/ Instant slides from picture files Easy and fast

27. Picassa picasaweb.google.com/ seamlessly works with Blogger to upload and create captions for your pictures.

28. Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ Upload your PowerPoint slides onto the Web. Imbed into your Blog or anywhere cool tool

29. LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/ Blog that offers a variety of features

30. Meebo.com http://wwwm.meebo.com/ Offers widgets for your blog cool tool

31. Morphing Mashing Web We hear terms like mash-ups and wonder… Huh? But when you find out that putting some things together

32. Like Flickr and Yahoo and Powerpoint Google and Blogger and Picasa My blog and say…Meebo and LibraryThing and Flickr…

33. To the moon, Alice!

34. … the sky is the limit

35. Web 3 anyone? Thank you.