1. New Trends on the Web August 2005

2. Overview Social Bookmarking Tagging (a.k.a. Folksonomy) Flickr File sharing with BitTorrent et al. Geospatial Web – Google Maps, GoogleEarth Other Miscellaneous Items

3. What you should learn What in the world is “Social Bookmarking”? What is tagging? What is flickr? What does BitTorrent do for us? What possibilities arise from Google Maps?

4. Background These new trends are being driven by these resources: Fast, cheap internet access Cheap storage Open APIs to Big Websites (e.g., Google, Amazon) The cooperation of many, many people

5. Theme The one ginormous trend is "Power to the People" making the world more democratic. Information is flowing from common people to common people without the aid of established entities.

6. del.icio.us What is del.icio.us? Demo What’s your favorite web site?site http://del.icio.us/fincher42 http://del.icio.us/popular http://fresh.homeunix.net/delicious.html Live bookmarks via RSS Searching with http://del.icio.us/tag/http://del.icio.us/tag/ Find people with similar interests Photo by Saffanna

7. Flickr http://flickr.com (photos+tagging)http://flickr.com “May we see your photos please?” Hot tags http://flickr.com/photos/tags/http://flickr.com/photos/tags/ Licensing options Blog http://blog.flickr.com/http://blog.flickr.com/ Groups – Pisa PushersGroups

8. Folksonomy Folksonomy results from a group of people cooperating to organize information by adding single words to describe something Not like Biology Species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, Kingdom Problems: –synonyms, ANT, ant –similar tags: dog, dogs, puppies –no hierarchy: Advantages: –wide coverage –Simple –Auto-Grouping Photo by mikecpeck

9. BitTorrent Allows large files to be distributed over the internet very efficiently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent The more copies downloaded, the faster distribution becomes Legality? Bram Cohen

10. Internet Protocol TV What is it? BBC is experimenting with it Microsoft has IPTV softwareMicrosoft SBC is buying Microsoft’s IPTV softwareSBC Future of TV is more like a library than a movie theater

11. Public Media Blogging (Text – Newspaper) PodCasting (Audio – Radio Station) Vlogging (Video – TV Station) –http://www.vlogdir.com/http://www.vlogdir.com/ –http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/

12. Google Maps Many of you have seen the satellite photos GoogleEarth Fly to bridge along 360 View businesses PhotoTagging

13. GeoBlogging http://geobloggers.com http://txfx.net/2005/05/17/flickr-google- maps-geobloggers/http://txfx.net/2005/05/17/flickr-google- maps-geobloggers/

14. Vista (nee Longhorn) Delivery Nov 7 th 2006 Integrated “real” search engine New user interface – Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon, Aero) Virtual Folders Windows Communication Foundation. WCF (Indigo) Windows XP SP3?

15. Screen Shot of Vista Virtual Folders

16. IE7 IE7 (Only in Vista and XP) – tabbed windows –Some CSS2 standards support –RSS newsfeed reader –security

17. Screen Shot of IE7 Beta

18. Miscelleous WiMax - WiFi on steroids BPL - Google made investment AJAX - a more interactive web browsing experience SnoCap – Legal Peer-To-Peer songs Zigbee – the tiny home network

19. Wrap-up What in the world is “Social Bookmarking”? What is tagging? What is flickr? What does BitTorrent do for us? What possibilities arise from Google Maps?