An introduction to Web2.0

What is Web2.0?

Also known as the social web

"Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.

Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and applications such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Characteristics of Web2.0

Read/write web

Web as a platform

Permanent beta

Open source

Radical trust

Top sites in the UK May 2009

1. Google UK 11. Blogger

2. Facebook 12. Amazon UK

3. Google 13. Bebo

4. YouTube 14. Myspace

5. Yahoo! 15. Twitter

6. Windows Live 16. Flickr

7. BBC Newsline Ticker 17. Microsoft

8. Ebay UK 18. Wordpress

9. Microsoft Network 19. The Internet Movie Database

10. Wikipedia 20. AOL UK

Source: alexa.com

Young people and Web2.0

Blogging

Online diary/journal

Brief entries arranged in reverse chronological order

Most recent entry at the top

Quick and easy way to publish content online

Ability to comment

Edinburgh Libraries – Tales of One City

Manchester Libraries

Leicestershire Libraries

Teen Librarian

Chicklish – Teen fiction

About books

Neil Gaiman

Bookstart Bear’s Blog

Creating your own Blog

RSS

Really Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary

Also known as news feeds

Allows you to be notified when new content appears without having to visit a site.

Easy way to receive updates from your favourite sites or blogs

Can save you a lot of time

Web-based news readers

www.google.com/reader

www.bloglines.com

Wikis

A collaborative website that can be edited by anyone with access to it

Wikis are often used to create collaborative or community websites

Wikipedia

Portsmouth Libraries

Portsmouth’s Teen Reading Group Wiki

Lib Success Wiki

Wikireadia

St. Joseph County Public Library's Subject Guides

Create your own Wiki

Photo/video sharing

Publishing or transferring digital photos or videos online, enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately)

FlickrFlickr is an image and video hosting website and online community.

Plymouth Libraries

Flickr sets

Groups on Flickr

Inspiration

YouTube YouTube is a video sharing website. Users can upload, share and view videos.

Westminster Libraries

Mindspot - Aarhus Public Libraries, Denmark

Efford HeadSpace

Social networking

A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others.

Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact including chat, messaging, email, video, blogging etc.

Bebo, MySpace, Facebook

Bebo – 13th most popular

MySpace – 14th most popular

Facebook – 2nd most popular

Bebo – Renfrewshire Libraries

Bebo - Rotorua Public Library – New Zealand

MySpace – Sighthill Library, Edinburgh

MySpace – Get it loud in Libraries, Lancaster

Facebook – Manchester Libraries

Facebook – East Renfrewshire

Facebook - CILIP

Twitter

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets.

Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters, displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them (known as followers).

Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter