Week 6: Social Media

I read a very interesting article on Web 2.0 on
Wikipedia. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has a very interesting

comment about whether the term Web 2.0

can be used with any significance. He believes that much of the technological parts of it have been around since the World Wide Web began.

The article uses Amazon.com as an example. Amazon.com has allowed its users to publish reviews of its books since 1995. Others in the article are concerned about a repeat of the dot-com fiasco in 2000.

The Web 2.0 image is from Wikipedia. It is a tag cloud.

Social media sites can be about entertainment such as Second Life, or they can be about communication such as Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, or Youmeo. Wikis are all about collaboration as are social bookmarking sites such as Delicious and StumbleUpon. Photobucket, Flickr, and YouTube are some of the multimedia sites available on the Internet.

A library site which uses Flickr is http://www.flickr.com/photos/clearly-unbalanced/489320825/.