The advantage of teaching is it really forces you to sit down and learn. My class is called Social Web 2.0 so I figured OK I better actually figure out what Web 2.0 means. I read the O’Reilly overview, and then for my class revised it to emphasize the more social aspect. Here are my bullet points from the slides about Social Web 2.0:
What is Web 2.0?
- The web as platform
- Data is key
- End of software release cycle
- Lightweight programming
- Above level of single device
- Rich user experience
What is Social Web 2.0?
- The web as tool for awareness of, access to, communication with others Any time (asynchronous), any place (not co located), many at a time
- Integration of communication and collaboration tools
- People are key, social meta-data is key
- Standardizing data across applications to enable interoperability
- Key role of users in generating content (democratization of content)
- Harnassing collective intelligence
- social metadata for structuring and organizing information
- Social metadata for defining sharing
- Mega-collaboration and coordination
indeed!