Web 2.0:Simple Tools & Smart People

Ethan ZuckermanSeptember 27, 2007

mosaic by stabillo boss

mosaic by 阿华

web 2.0

community media

civic mediacitizen journalism

photosharing

podcastingvideocasting

read/write media

social networkingvlogging

social media

tagging

folksonomy

semantic web wiki

bookmarkingweb servicesremix

mashup API

RSSXML

blogging

participatory web

Email - 1965. Internet Email - 1971. Mailing lists - 1975.

1978 - BBSsBulletin Board Systems

Ward Christensen - CBBS

1979 - Usenet. (And the invention of the emoticon -)

1979 - MUDs - Multi-User Dungeons

MMORPGs - World of Warcraft

1982 - Minitel - Chess = Chat

CERN web page in 1990

1995 - Geocities and Tripod: Personal Homepages

1997 - weblogs

1995: Ward Cunningham’s wiki

Wikipedia - 2001

mosaic by stabillo boss

it’s not about the tools.

it’s about the people.

map by telegeography.com

photo by laffy4k

-100 million handsets in sub-Saharan Africa- 300 million handset in China- 2.2 billion worldwide, rising to 3.3 billion in 2010- 97% of Tanzanians say they can access a phone

photo by Esthr

Interactive Radio for Justicefeaturing DRC deputy minister for defense,head of military operations for MONUC

phones collect.web disseminates.

activists are lead users

Web 1.0

Web 2.0

photo by Marvin (PA)

our dark secret

photo by Sbrimbillina

screencap by janet.powell

technorati.com

alexa.com

when 100 million peoplespeak, you need a filter.

buzzmonitor - developmentblogs.org

selection, translation, context

it’s not about the toolsit’s about who they connect

sometimes you have to ignore the geeks(me included)

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