This document provides an overview and schedule for a course on Web 2.0 technologies including blogs, wikis, tags, and social networks. The course will introduce new Web trends and features of Web 2.0, examine tools like blogs, wikis, Twitter, Flickr and social networks, and cover related concepts like tagging, social characteristics of users, and network theory. Students will gain hands-on experience using these tools for the course and do a final presentation of their work.

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

2. 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 )

3. 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, ...

4. 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!

5. Presentation Facebook

6. MySpace

7. Linkedin

8. Twitter

9. Flickr

10. YouTube

11. Slideshare

12. Google+ Blogger

13. Wordpress

14. Wikimedia

15. Wikipedia

16. Google Docs

17. Google Earth

18. iPhone

19. iPad How many of you use ... self-presentation: why we all are here?

20. the Web Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM (Information Revolution) http://www.worldofends.com The Internet isn't complicated

21. The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement

22. The Internet is stupid

23. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value

24. All the Internet's value grows on its edges

25. Money moves to the suburbs

26. The Internet has three virtues: a. No one owns it b. Everyone can use it c. Anyone can improve it

27. 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:

28. 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/

29. 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

30. the Web today World web sites – 1995-2011 ( http://www.netcraft.com ) the curve follows the 2009 crisis and the current recovery

31. big increment in 2011: see http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/

32. the Web today KeyTrends from http://www.readwriteweb.com/ : Location (eg http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=179386

33. 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

34. Internet of things: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-internet-of-things-infographic/

35. Mobile: next lesson

36. Structured Data: Open (LInked) Data - final lesson

37. 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/

38. press: http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/stats/2011/03/index.aspx

39. the Web today Agosto 2009 Google.com

40. Yahoo!

41. Facebook

42. Youtube

43. Windows live

44. Msn

45. Blogger.com

46. Wikipedia

47. Baidu (cn search engine)

48. Yahoo Giappone

49. myspace

50. Google India

51. Google Germania

52. Twitter

53. 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

54. Facebook

55. Youtube

56. Yahoo!

57. Windows live

58. Baidu.com

59. Wikipedia

60. Blogger.com

61. Msn

62. Twitter

63. Qq.com

64. Yahoo Giappone

65. Google India

66. Taobao.com (cn)

67. Amazon Yahoo!

68. Msn

69. Google.com

70. eBay

71. Amazon

72. Microsoft.com

73. MySpace

74. Google.co.uk

75. Aol.com

76. Go.com 2005

77. exercise 1 Send me (carlo.vaccari@unicam.it) a mail with your name and surname

78. Go to the wiki http://camerino20.wiki-site.com/index.php/Pagina_principale define a user to access

79. Create your personal page page in the wiki and add infos about you and links to your websites

80. In your page you will write ALL practices and exercises: start writing there what are your expectations by the course (needs, interests, ...)