Lesson 3 Web 2.0

WEB 2.
0
WHAT IS WEB 2.0?
• It is not a new version of the World Wide Web,

rather, it describes a new wave of web
applications that followed the dot.com bubble
of 1997 – 2001 and began to appear in 2004.
Create and share Collaborate with
information others on the web
Exchange news Publish and create

and photos
WEB 2.0 ones own materials
Keep in touch with Users can change

friends, organize web content
meetings,
WEB 2.0 TOOLS AND SERVICES
• Blogs
• E-portfolios
• Social bookmarking
• Social networks
• Wikis
• Video sharing
CHARACTERISTICS OF WEB 2.0
• Rich user experience

• User participation
• Dynamic content
• Metadata
• Web standards
• Scalibility
ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES OF WEB 2.0
• Openness
• Freedom
• Collaborative intelligence – user participation
KEY FEATURES
OF WEB 2.0
• Ease of finding information through
keyword searching.
• Links are guides to important pieces of
information.
• Links connect information together into a
meaningful information ecosystem using
the model of the web.
• Authoring is the ability to create a d
constantly update content that is co-
created by users.
• Tags are categorization of content by creating
tags that are simple, one-word descriptions to
facilitate searching and avoid having to fit into
rigid, pre-made categories.
• Know as folksonomies (folk taxonomies)
• Signals which uses of RSS (real simple syndication)
technology to create a subscription model which
notifies users of any content changes.
• RSS is a type of web feed which allows users and
applications to access updates to online content in
a standardized, computer-readable format.
WEB 2.0
TOOLS AND
SERVICES
PODCASTING
• A podcast is a digital medium that consists of an

episodic series of audio, digital radio, PDF, or ePub
files.
• Pod: a mobile playback device
• Casting: broadcasting
• A distribution of multimedia files
(audio or video) over the internet
• Shared using RSS
BLOGGING
• Described as personal diaries or journals
on the web
• Covers different topics and expresses
many opinions, a commentary on
current events, a collection of memories
or thoughts and a place to post photos
and comments.
• A blog (weblog )is an informational website
published on the World Wide Web.
• Consists of informal diary-style text entries called
posts
TAGGING
• It is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to

a piece of information.
• A type of met
• A data that helps describe an item and allows it to
be found again by browsing or searching
• Generally chosen informally and personally by the
item’s creator or by its viewer depending on the
system
• Metadata is "data that provides information about
other data". In short, it's data about data.
• Distinct types of metadata:
• descriptive metadata
• structural metadata
• administrative metadata
• reference metadata
• statistical metadata.
CURATING
• Content curation is the process of

collecting, organizing, and displaying
information relevant to a particular
topic or area of interest.
• Curators – services or people that
implement content curation
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING
• The way to store, organize, or search, manage,

and share collection of websites
• Users can save links to websites that they want to
remember or share and these bookmarks are
usually in public but can be saved privately
• Arranged chronologically
• By category or tags
• Or via a search engine
• Bookmarking sites provide web feeds (RSS) for
their lists of bookmarks and tagged categories.
ADDED EXTRA FEATURES
• Ratings and comments on bookmarks

• Import and export bookmarks from browser
• E-mailing of bookmarks
• Web annotation
• Groups or other social network features
POPULAR
BOOKMARKING SITES
• Del.icio.us
• Digg
• Technorati
SOCIAL NETWORKING
• Considered as the most popular, successful, and

evidently has the most widely accessed
application on the internet
• Provides a virtual community that connects
people who share the same interests
CAPABILITY AND FEATURES
• Chat
• Instant messaging
• Video conferencing
• Voice call
POPULAR SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Youtube
WEB CONTENT VOTING
• A rating site (a rate-me site)

• Designed for users to vote on or rate people,
content, or other things
• Organized around attributes such as physical
appearance, body parts, voice, and personality
E-PORTFOLIOS
• Electronic portfolio
• Electronic or digital compilation exhibiting
abilities, demonstrating achievements and
growth, permitting for flexible expression, and
consenting access from varied interested parties
• Can contain audio, graphics, video, multimedia,
and text typically maintained on the internet
• Recognized as valuable tools for learner,
teachers, and academic institutions
WIKIS
• “wiki”: Hawaiian word which means fast

• A page or collection of web pages designed to
enable any user private or public who accesses
them to collaboratively build up a body of content
on particular topics of interest and modify them
easily
• Wikipedia: best example of wiki which is really
popular for it serves as an online encyclopedia
MICROBLOGGING
• Also knowns as mobile
social networking
• A form of blogging that
limits the size of each
message or post to less than
200 characters, and publish
them via web-browser
based services, e-mail or
mobile phones
• Twitter, Tumblr, FriendFeed,
Plurk, Jaiku, and identi.ca
THE END!

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WEB 2.

• It is not a new version of the World Wide Web,

Exchange news Publish and create

Keep in touch with Users can change

• Rich user experience

• A podcast is a digital medium that consists of an

• It is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to

• Content curation is the process of

• The way to store, organize, or search, manage,

• Ratings and comments on bookmarks

• Considered as the most popular, successful, and

• A rating site (a rate-me site)

• “wiki”: Hawaiian word which means fast

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