What is Web 2.0 Ideas, technologies and implications for education

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discussion with a now famous paper, What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business …… new technologies that are developed on the basis of Web 2.0 ideas, …

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What is Web 2.0?
Ideas, technologies and implications for
education
by
Paul Anderson
This report was peer reviewed by:
Mark Hepworth
Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Brian Kelly
Policy and Advice Team Leader and Web Focus
UKOLN
Randy Metcalfe
Manager, OSSWatch
University of Oxford
Lawrie Phipps
Programme Manager, Users and Innovation
JISCJISC Technology and Standards Watch, Feb. 2007 Web 2.0
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CONTENTS
Introduction 3
1. Web 2.0 or Web 1.0?: a tale of two Tims 4
2. Key Web 2.0 services/applications 6
2.1 Blogs 6
2.2 Wikis 7
2.3 Tagging and social bookmarking 8
2.4 Multimedia sharing 9
2.5 Audio blogging and podcasting 9
2.6 RSS and syndication 9
2.7 Newer Web 2.0 services and applications 11
3. The big ideas behind Web 2.0 13
3.1 Individual production and User Generated Content 13
3.2 Harnessing the power of the crowd 14
3.3 Data on an epic scale 17
3.4 Architecture of Participation 18
3.5 Network effects, power laws and the Long Tail 19
3.6 Open-ness 24
4. Technology and standards 26
4.1 Ajax 26
4.2 Alternatives to Ajax 27
4.3 SOAP vs REST 28
4.4 Micro-formats 29
4.5 Open APIs 30
5. Educational and institutional issues 31
5.1 Teaching and Learning 31
5.2 Scholarly Research 33
5.3 Academic Publishing 34
5.4 Libraries, repositories and archiving 35
6. Looking ahead - the Future of Web 2.0 45
6.1 Web 2.0 and Semantic Web 46
6.2 The emerging field of Web Science 48
6.3 The continued development of the Web…