My accounts on Del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Vodpod and Listal.
"Web 2.0 has numerous definitions. Tim O'Reilly [credited with terming Web 2.0 in 2004] regards Web 2.0 as business embracing the web as a platform and using its strengths (global audiences, for example)" -- taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
My exploration of the Web 2.0 platform begins with building a social network for my course in New Media, part of the MFA in Documentary Media program at Ryerson University. Eventually I will expand my networking capacities to include research on my thesis topic. By doing so I can begin to meet people who share similar interests identified by the way we tag our blog posts, bookmarks and online interests. This potential for building research relationships fascinates me. At the same time, the Web 2.0 platform is merely four years young, and I am interested in understanding more about it as I enter into this realm.
In a podcast interview Tim Berners-Lee [developer of the World Wide Web] described the term "Web 2.0" as a "piece of jargon." "Nobody really knows what it means," he says. -- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
I have found these mixed opinions, however the value of Web 2.0 as a social networking platform seems clear. Still, I have some questions about using these technologies for sharing information, especially with user interfaces changing as rapidly as they are. To explore my questions it is necessary to understand the network potential and there is no better way to do that than trying it out.
Here are links to my del.icio.us, flickr, vodpod, youtube and listal accounts:
http://del.icio.us/documentarynewmedia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26535911@N08
http://documentarynewmedia.vodpod.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/documentarynewmedia
http://janiscole.listal.com/view/books
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