Web 2.0
Web 1.0 Web 2.0
DoubleClick --> Google AdSense
Ofoto --> Flickr
Akamai --> BitTorrent
mp3.com --> Napster
Britannica Online --> Wikipedia
personal websites --> blogging
evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation --> search engine optimization
page views --> cost per click
screen scraping --> web services
publishing --> participation
content management systems --> wikis
directories (taxonomy) --> tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness --> syndication
Library2.0
Library 2.0 reading list
Princeton Becomes Twelfth Library To Join GooglePrinceton is the twelfth institution to join the Google Books Library Project, joining Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, the University of California, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the New York Public Library, the University Complutense of Madrid, and the National Library of Catalonia.
Today's most used social-software tools, including:
Weblogs (blogs)
Podcasts
RSS feeds
Instant Messaging (IM)
Wikis
Flickr
Michael Stephens on 5 things libraries can do to get started on a 2.0 path:
Start a library blog
Create an Emerging Technology Committee
Train staff to use an RSS aggregator
Experiment and use 2.0 Tools
Implement IM reference
Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the 2.0 World
Librarian 2.0
Librarian 2.0 is the guru of the information age. Librarian 2.0 strives to
-Understand the power of the Web 2.0 opportunities
-Learn the major tools of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0
-Combine e-resources and print formats and is container and format agnostic
-Is device independent and uses and delivers to everything from laptops to PDAs to iPods
-Develop targeted federated search and adopts the OpenURL standard
-Connect people and technology and information in context
-Doesn’t shy away from non-traditional cataloging and classification and chooses tagging, tag clouds, folksonomies, and user-driven content descriptions and classifications where appropriate
-Embrace non-textual information and the power of pictures, moving images, sight, and sound
-Understand the “long tail” and leverages the power of old and new content
-See the potential in using content sources like the Open Content Alliance, Google Print, and Open WorldCat
-Connect users to expert discussions, conversations, and communities of practice and participates there as well
-Use the latest tools of communication (such as Skype) to connect content, expertise, information coaching, and people
-Use and develops advanced social networks to enterprise advantage
-Connect with everyone using their communication mode of choice – telephone, Skype, IM, SMS, texting, email, virtual reference, etc.
-Encourage user driven metadata and user developed content and commentary
-Understand the wisdom of crowds and the emerging roles and impacts of the blogosphere, Web syndicasphere and wikisphere
Library 2.0 at Sripatum University Library
