1. What’s New in Web 2.0?

2. What is Web 2.0?
“…the phrase "Web 2.0" hints at an improved form of the World Wide Web - more than just read-only websites.”
“…aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.”

3. What is Web 2.0?
“In short Web 2.0 is about ideas, behaviors, technologies and ideals all at the same time.”
“…Web 2.0 is a conceptual frame, within which we can correlate and make sense of those diverse events even as we use it as a convenient short–hand. What then are the main elements to this frame, the pieces which, together, create the boundaries around the picture of the current state of the World Wide Web? There are four – technology, economy, users and philosophy…”
Web 2.0: An Argument Against Convergence by Matthew Allen

4. What is Web 2.0?
“Essentially, the Web is shifting from an international library of interlinked pages to an information ecosystem, where data circulate like nutrients in a rain forest.”
From Emerging Technology: Software upgrades promise to turn the Internet into a lush rain forest of information teeming with new life by Steven Johnson retrieved from

5. From Emerging Technology: Software upgrades promise to turn the Internet into a lush rain forest of information teeming with new life by Steven Johnson retrieved from

6. Some Tech Characteristics
Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content
Folksonomies (collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging)
Microformats extending pages with additional semantics
REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs
Rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax-based
Semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup
Syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom feeds
mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and server-side
Weblog-publishing tools
wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content

7. Some Tech Characteristics
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8. A free social-networking & micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates (tweets). Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length which are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have subscribed to them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow anybody to access them. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications.

9. Talk
tweets: posts made by twitter users, which must be under 140 characters
un/follow: un/subscribe to a particular users’ twitter posts
RT: Retweet: tweeting content posted by another user
DM / direct message: send a direct private message to another twitter user
tweeps: friends on twitter
tweople: people who tweet
tweetup: meeting a twitter user/s in the real world

10. Let’s go play!!

11. Educational Uses Real-time learning Foreign language acquisition
Video mail for assignment explanations
Test reviews
File sharing
Group collaboration

12. “BeFunky helps people turn their offline personalities within photos and videos into powerful online visual expressions. BeFunky holds to mission to let everyone become instant artists without the need of any talent nor technical knowledge.”

13. Visual Poetry
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Flower Text
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Poetry Blender
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Sketchpad
Banners
Word Mosaic NEW
Symbols
Video
Awareness
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