WEB 2.0  -  Interesting Sites

 

 

EMM ( Europe Media Monitor ):    http://press.jrc.it/NewsBrief/clusteredition/en/latest.html  

 

( monitors permanently about 1200 media every ten minutes and in 26 languages )

 

 

Imooty :     http://www.imooty.eu/    

 

( media news from 19 European countries )

 

MyImooty :   http://www.imooty.eu/my_imooty.php   

 

( make your own tailor made Imooty )

 

 

Blogging Portal :   http://www.bloggingportal.eu/  

 

( monitoring 343 blogs for the time being )

 

 

miCandidate:     www.miCandidate.eu  

 

( new interactive site with lots of candidates for the European elections all over Europe )

 

 

Twitter  ( 10 Downing Street ):

 

http://twitter.com/DowningStreet   

 

 

Welcome Europe :   http://www.welcomeurope.com/   

 

( how to find funding from the EU – in 7 languages )

 

 

 

Milkshaker:     http://milkshaker.eu/   

 

( mixing your ideas about Europe )

 

 

Y VOTE 2009:    http://yvote2009.blogactiv.eu/  

 

( about voting in the 2009 European elections )

 

Parties and Elections in Europe:

http://www.parties-and-elections.de/countries.html  

 

( overview of political parties all over Europe )

 

 

What has Europe ever done for us ? 

http://www.whathaseuropedone.eu/   

 

( interactive communication from the European Movement )

 

 

EU Calendar:   http://europa.eu/eucalendar/   

 

 

Dutch Site on Web 2.0 communications:

http://www.ambtenaar20.nl/    

 

 

 

Social Media Forum:

http://www.thesocialmediaforum.org/    

 

( discussions on many aspects of the use of social media )

 

 

D L D  (  Digital, Life, Design ):

http://www.dld-conference.com/   

 

( discussions on back to human touch )

 

 

S K Y P E:

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/welcomeback/

 

( free Internet telephony, incl. conference calls, and free chat functions too.  And for the price of about 5 € a month ( Europe ) and about 9 € a month ( rest of world ) you call also call all fixed phones in 43 countries worldwide ).

 

 

Google Translate:

http://translate.google.com/   

 

(  machine translation to and from 41 languages – including all 24 official EU languages )

 

 

 

Obama:  Organizing for America:

 

http://www.barackobama.com/index.php    

 

 

 

 

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

 

e-mail:  kimbrer@gmail.com

 

www.simplesite.com/communicating_better    

 

April 17, 2009   

THE  W E B

 

Main developments

 

                                      WEB 1.0:      The web until about 2001

 

                                                             Main characteristics:

 

·     Publishing on the web

·     One-way flow of information

·     One to many

·     Read-only material

·     Worries over privacy

·     Widespead internet illiteracy

·     Slow internet  and dial-up connections

·     Online Guest Books

 

                                      WEB 2.0:      The web since 2001 – under constant development

 

                                                             Main characteristics:

 

·     Participation  ( “the participatory web “ )

·     Buttom-up approach – everybody a publisher

·     Many-to-Many

·     People not only consumers of information, but also producers

·     Enhances creativity

·     Social networking sites ( like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. )

·     The web now a platform in its own right

·     Works on much bigger bandwidth ( aver. 1 MB )

·     Special technical features in Web 2.0: 

-      search

-      links

-      authority  ( like wikies and blogs )

-      tags  ( key words )

-      signals ( like RSS feeds, etc. ) – notifying users of new changes

 

                                                              Tim O’Reilly’s 4 levels in the hierarchy of Web 2.0:

 

·     Level 3 applications:

          The most web 2.0 related. Work only on-line on

          the web. Based on inter-human relations and

          network effects. And they are growing in

          effectiveness as people make use of them

 

 

 

          Examples:

 

-          eBay

-          Craigslist

-          Wikipedia

-          del.icio.us

-          Skype

-          dodgeball

-          Ad Sense

 

·     Level 2 applications:

              Can operate off-line, but gain advantages by

              Going on-line

 

         Example:     Flickr

 

·     Level 1 applications:

              Operate off-line, but gain features on-line

 

         Examples:     

 

                   -     Google Docs and Spreadsheets

-          iTunes

 

 

·     Level 0 applications:

              Work as well off-line as on-line

 

         Examples:  

 

                   -     MapQuest

-          Yahoo! Local

-          Google Maps

 

·     Non-web applications:

 

-      e-mail

-      SMS – Instant Messaging Checks

-      Telephone

 

                                                              Closed Web 2.0 networks  ( password and with payment )

 

                                                                          ( closed on-line communities )

 

                                                                          Companies:   

                                                                                -    Harris Connect

-      iModules

-      Publishing Cencepts

 

 

                                                 WEB 3.0:   Research development from 2006

 

                                                                     Main characteristics:

 

·     “The intelligent web” 

·     Semantic web   ( artificial intelligence )

·     Immense computer graphics developments

·     Microformats

·     Natural language search

·     Data mining

·     Machine learning

·     Recommendation learning

·     Open technologies

·     Operating on min 10 MB bandwidth – all the time

·     Full video web

·     Aimed at full mobility

 

                                                                    Operational:  expected from 2010 and onwards

 

 

                                                 NJT – November 2008    

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Web 2.0 is the Internet of the future. It puts the users and their interests at the centre - not the information supplyer.

The simple principle behind it is that the web sites register your interest and reacts accordingly next time you log into the site concerned. And it also contains a number of interactive web sites, where you in a very easy way can share your interests with others worldwide.

The key words are cooperation and sharing.

Read much more:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2  

Hereby a number of very interesting Web 2.0 sites:

Amazon:    www.amazon.co.uk  

The online bookshop, which makes it possible for the clients to make their own tags at their website.

Del.icio.us:   http://del.icio.us/   

This is a social bookmarks manager - run together with other users. Popular home pages with lots of users will be up-front automatically.

Flickr:      www.flickr.com  

This social site for sharing of photos is part of Yahoo.

DIGG:     www.digg.com

This is a site on weblogs.

Last.fm:   http://www.last.fm/ 

This is world's largest social music platform, where you can share your music with otehrs with the same interest.

Wikipedia:    www.wikipedia.org  

The new interactive encyclopedia  (see next chapter)

Technorati:  http://www.technorati.com/

The best Blog overview on the web. Shows Who is Saying What. Right Now.

Internet 2.0 and all its possibilities also gives the possibility to do broadcasting yourself.  Also called free video sharing.

One of the biggest sites is:   YOU TUBE     http://www.youtube.com/

You can see on Techorati how many people have tagged YouTUBE on this site:  http://www.technorati.com/tags/youtube    

Read more:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube