USER 2.0’s

A guide to Web 2.0 tools, services and concepts

WEB 2.0

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Introduction

The web has changed our lives in a manner that could not have been foreseeable even 30 years back. For some users it spread out a new plane of existence, it’s effects continue to be profound both on the collective as well as the individual. Democratization of information through the web hasn’t really been acknowledged as it should have been. Information that took years to acquire the traditional way in the past is now available at your fingertips, literally speaking

The web presented a world where users perceived by not skin color, ethnicity, religious denomination and like but by their knowledge, intellect and attitude. After all the web is a collaborative mind space, the trend of users taking active role in creating content on web (and thus sustaining it) went by the moniker Web 2.0 .

User 2.0

Most of the popular Web 2.0 services are built to augment specific user behavior on cyber space but due to the mushrooming of so many sites and services it has become quite confusing. Web 2.0 also saw emergence of active user, most content were generated by users themselves. Software applications were designed around this emerging user behavioral trend.

Thus arrived User 2.0 - the user who could optimally use the rapidly developing Web 2.0 services to create value without spending a lot of time on them. In this presentation I will try to explain some of the essential Web 2.0 services in context to usability and overall architecture of the Web 2.0 and the map of a typical User 2.0

User behavior on Web can be categorized under three types of behavior :

Web 2.0 Map

Content creation is sharing information through text, pictures, audio and video. It is the primary means to creating your identity.

Only activities involve interaction with other users.

Curation is bookmarking or saving links for future as well collaborate with curated content of other users

• Content Creation • Activities• Curation

Blogging

Web 2.0 Map

Wordpress and Blogger are the most popular blogging platform but certainly not the only

Blogging

Photo-Sharing

Web 2.0 Map

Flickr and Picasa are popular photo-sharing service

Blogging

Photo-Sharing

Social Networking

Web 2.0 Map

Blogging

Photo-Sharing

Social Networking

Rich Content Sharing

Web 2.0 Map

Blogging

Photo-Sharing

Social Networking

Rich Content Sharing

Social Bookmarking

Web 2.0 Map

Blogging

Photo-Sharing

Social Networking

Rich Content Sharing

Web 2.0 Map

Blogging

Photo-Sharing

Social Networking

Rich Content Sharing

Social Bookmarking

Aggregators

Web 2.0 Map

Blogging

Photo-Sharing

Social Networking

Rich Content Sharing

Social Bookmarking

Aggregators

Microblogging

Web 2.0 Map

Blogging

Photo-Sharing

Social Networking

Rich Content Sharing

Social Bookmarking

Aggregators

Web 2.0 Map

Microblogging

New services such Pinterest, Instagram, Quora are becoming popular but not really fit into a single category

Web 2.0 Map

This is a standard map of Web 2.0 but a personal one. The services I have included are my personal favorites, you might prefer a different set of services. As a matter of fact, using two or three services properly may more than suffice.

Further, most of these services can be linked to each other. For example, if you link your Twitter account to your Linked In account, you can simultaneously update Linked In status message and also tweet it. Conversely, if you have configured previously you can update your Linked In status message with your Tweet, preferably selectively. Similarly Facebook can be connected with most of the services listed in the map.

However, it is web feeds , mostly RSS feeds that would contribute most to your online reputation. Feeds act as transport agents taking your content across the web to readers instead of requiring users to visit the web page. If the Web were an organism web feeds would definitely be it life blood.

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Please note this presentation was created almost 2 years back and was hastily edited before uploading it here

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