Monday, January 21, 2008

Thing #1 Learning and Web 2.0

I've just read all of the suggested articles that were posted for our Thing #1 assignment. I am slowly gaining a better understanding of Web 2.0
The key themes that I picked up from these various articles is that Web 2.0 means
  • constant change
  • creativity
  • sharing between users
  • rich interactivity
  • simplicity

In the article "Hot Technology for 2008", the author said that blogs, wikis, social networks and mashups are all used to "collaborate with others". He said that these are easy to use and the user does not need to go through a bunch of corporate channels to create a blog. So I guess that learning the tools for Web 2.0 would be perfect for a group of librarians....who in turn can help faculty members and students gather information.

So what is a mashup?

3 comments:

MyraG said...

A mashup is simply using more than one Web 2.0 tool to create new content. Combining the features of several tools to make a new product. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid)

Kim said...

The impression I got is that it is a multi-media interactive communique. But, I could be dead wrong, that happens frequently!
:-) Kim

Anonymous said...

Ann,
How was your weekend trip? You must have worked on your blog all day Monday!