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The past, present and future of social media Alex Howard Government 2.0 Correspondent O’Reilly Media

Social media past, present and future

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The past, present and future of social media

Alex HowardGovernment 2.0 Correspondent

O’Reilly Media

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What is social media?

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Postal Service (550 BC)

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Telegraph (1792)

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Pneumatic mail (1865)

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Telephone (1890)

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Radio (1891)

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Email (1966)

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ARPANET (1969)

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Commercial online services (1969)

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Bulletin Board Services (BBS) (1979)

Ward Christensen and the First BBS [Credit: Wikipedia]

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Usenet (1979)

• Conceived of by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis.

• Usenet let users post articles or posts to newsgroups.

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Online chat rooms (1980)

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Internet Relay Chat (1988)

• IRC was followed by ICQ in the mid-90s.

• First IM program for PCs.

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World Wide Web (1991)

Credit: http://www.radford.edu/srabago/links/text.html]

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Blogs (1994) First blog? Links.net

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Wikis (1994)

• Ward Cunningham was inspired in part by Apple’s Hypercard

• He developed Vannevar Bush’s ideas of “allowing users to comment on and change one another’s text”

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America Online (1995)

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Social networks (1997)

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P2P/ Social filesharing (1999)

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Livejournal

…and Blogger (1999)

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Wikipedia (2001)

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RSS (2002)

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Friendster (2002)

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MySpace (2003)

• Friendster (2002)• MySpace (2003)

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Second Life (2003)

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Facebook, Digg, Flickr and LinkedIn (2004 )

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YouTube (2005)

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Twitter (2006)

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Livestreaming (2006)

• uStream.tv• Justin.tv• Livestream.com

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First YouTube Presidential Debate (2007)

[Credit: HowStuffWorks]

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Tumblr (2007)

• Lifestreaming + microblogging platform

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My.Barack.Obama.com (2007)• 2 million+ members. Most contributed to

nearly half a billion dollars raised online.

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#IranElection (2009)

[Credit: UPI]

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Foursquare (2009)

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Posterous (2009)

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DoD Social Media Policy (2010)

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Google Plus (2011)

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The Future?

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China

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Russia

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Augmented reality

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Augmented overload!

Image Credit: Daonk.org

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Digital tools for open government

NY Senate on iTunes

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Social audits

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Socialmemories

Image Credit: Portal To Your Dreams

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We’ll need better filter/browsers

Image credit: PC World on Aurora

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Privacy challenges

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The stream