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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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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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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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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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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