Presentation about history leading up to Web 2.0, characteristics of Web 2.0, and about Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed

1. Web 2.0
Richard Akerman
NRC-CISTI
December 10, 2008

2. Internet Librarian 2004
• http://www.infotoday.com/il2004/
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3. Internet Librarian 2004
• http://www.infotoday.com/il2004/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rakerman/1535667/
© 2004 Richard Akerman
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4. Internet Librarian 2008
• http://www.infotoday.com/IL2008/
• http://il2008.pbwiki.com/
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5. Internet Librarian 2008
• http://www.infotoday.com/IL2008/
• http://il2008.pbwiki.com/
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6. 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
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7. Web 2.0
• “the egocentric web”
• user-created content
• social
• DEFAULT: PUBLIC
• low barrier
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8. Issues
• privacy (many sites not in Canada)
• too many pieces too loosely joined
(many user accounts)
• service level
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9. 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)
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10. 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)
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11. Technology Adoption
• Early Adopters
• General Adopters
• Late Adopters
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12. NRC First Light
• USENET 1988
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13. NRC First Light
• USENET 1988
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14. First NRC Web Mention
• USENET 1993
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15. First NRC Web Mention
• USENET 1993
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16. First NRC Web Link
• USENET April 1994
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17. First NRC Web Link
• USENET April 1994
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18. First CISTI Web Link
• USENET May 1994
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19. First CISTI Web Link
• USENET May 1994
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20. First CISTI Web Link
• USENET May 1994
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21. CISTI Web 1999
• http://web.archive.org/web/
19990117033701/http://cisti.nrc.ca/cisti/
cisti.html
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22. CISTI Web 1999
• http://web.archive.org/web/
19990117033701/http://cisti.nrc.ca/cisti/
cisti.html
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23. User Expertise
• Basic User
• Intermediate User
• Advanced (“Power”) User
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24. http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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25. 1990
pre-Web
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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26. 1990
pre-Web
1995
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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27. 1990
pre-Web
1995
1998
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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28. 1990
pre-Web
1995
1998
1999
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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29. 1990
pre-Web
1995 2001
1998
1999
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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30. 1990
pre-Web
1995 2001 2003
1998
1999
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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31. 1990
pre-Web
1995 2001 2003
1998
2004
1999
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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32. 1990
pre-Web
1995 2001 2003
1998
2004
1999
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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33. 1990
pre-Web
1995 2001 2003
1998
2004
1999
2005
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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34. 1990
pre-Web
1995 2001 2003
1998
2004
1999
2005
2006
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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35. 1990
pre-Web
1995 2001 2003
1998
2004
1999
2005 2007
2006
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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36. 1990
pre-Web
1995 2001 2003
1998
2004
1999
2005 2007
2006
Oct 2008
http://www.dipity.com/scilib/Web_2_0
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37. The Web in 2008
• Infrastructure: blogs, wikis, RSS, commenting,
bookmarking, tagging, multimedia, search
• From static pages to social life of
information
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38. Web Interaction
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39. Web Interaction
http://flickr.com/photos/juanpol/2854082526/ CC-BY
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40. Web Interaction
http://flickr.com/photos/juanpol/2854082526/ CC-BY http://flickr.com/photos/ppym1/405363942/ CC-BY-NC
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41. Government of Canada
• Prime Minister (?)
• GCPEDIA
• Beyond GCPEDIA
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42. Prime Minister
• http://pm.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?pageId=112
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43. Prime Minister
• http://pm.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?pageId=112
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44. Prime Minister
• http://pm.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?pageId=112
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45. Prime Minister
• http://pm.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?pageId=112
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46. 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
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47. Twitter Zero
• these new tools are entirely social
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48. Twitter Zero
• these new tools are entirely social
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49. Twitter (Many)
• Twitter only makes sense if you have a
social network
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50. Twitter (Many)
• Twitter only makes sense if you have a
social network
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51. Zero Degrees Point 1
• http://friendfeed.com/e/4968b5f8-4ea0-
e9bd-13e9-7c30c99d0ac8/Bio-IT-World-
Search-and-Deploy/
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52. Zero Degrees Point 1
• http://friendfeed.com/e/4968b5f8-4ea0-
e9bd-13e9-7c30c99d0ac8/Bio-IT-World-
Search-and-Deploy/
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53. Zero Degrees Point 2
• http://twitter.com/scilib/status/1013389500
• http://twitter.com/whereivebeen/status/
1017093025
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54. Zero Degrees Point 2
• http://twitter.com/scilib/status/1013389500
• http://twitter.com/whereivebeen/status/
1017093025
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55. Zero Degrees Point 2
• http://twitter.com/scilib/status/1013389500
• http://twitter.com/whereivebeen/status/
1017093025
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56. Lifestreaming
• http://www.wordspy.com/2007/11/
lifestreaming.html
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57. Facebook
• What happens in Facebook,
stays in Facebook... sort of
• “enclosed garden”
• Within Facebook, default = public
• in particular Wall posts are public
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58. Facebook Stats
• over 120 million users
• over 10 Billion photos
• over 30 million photos added daily
• http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?
statistics
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59. 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
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60. 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
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61. 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
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62. Lifestream: Facebook
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63. Lifestream: Facebook
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64. FriendFeed
• solves a problem you may not have
• low barrier to participation
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65. FriendFeed
• solves a problem you may not have
• low barrier to participation
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66. Lifestream: FriendFeed 1
• it’s all about everyone
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67. Lifestream: FriendFeed 1
• it’s all about everyone
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68. Lifestream: FriendFeed 2
• it’s all about me
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69. Lifestream: FriendFeed 2
• it’s all about me
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70. Aggregation: FriendFeed
• it’s all about a topic
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71. Aggregation: FriendFeed
• it’s all about a topic
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72. 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
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73. There are many copies
• new + no business model = endless
proliferation of sites
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74. Science Social Net
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75. Science Social Net
http://www.slideshare.net/neilfws/what-can-science-networking-online-do-for-you-presentation/
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76. HELP
• Five Weeks to a Social Library
http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/
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77. Richard Akerman
NRC-CISTI
http://www.connotea.org/user/scilib/tag/cistiweb2008
© 2008 Government of Canada
Licensed in the Creative Commons
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