Web 2.0 ?

What is it?

Why do I care?

What is it to me?

Information Superhighway?

Information Superhighway

Popular collective name for the Internet

and other related large-scale computer networks.

Nam June Paik, a 20th century South Korean born American video artist,

claims to have coined the term in 1974.

The term was popularized by former

Vice President, Al Gore in the early 1990’s.

Super. . . what?

The Information superhighway started changing.

People started looking at the Internet as a new place to. . .

Colonize!

Populate!

Build Words

…the sky is the limit

To the moon, Alice!

But . . .what is it, really?

What has the super highway become?

ToolsGoods

ServicesInformation

EntertainmentSocial Networking

Sounds like a mallor a town

or your own little store.

Lets see that again. . .

Tools Radio Shack-ish, Drugstore

Goods Retail, specialty stores

Services Banking, dog license, appts

Information Media outlets, Libraries

Entertainment Music, video, books, clubs

Social Networking Clubs, associations, regular meetings

cool tools

Adobe Voice to Text

Here is the path on your pc…

Start Menu

Control Panel

Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices

Speech

Text to Speech

Test & choose your voice

Adobe Voice to Textcool tool

Adobe Voice to Text

Download any pdf file to your computer.

Open Adobe Reader, and open it from Adobe Reader.

Choose

View

Read out loud

Read this page onlyRead to end of document

Library Thingsocial software for us bookish types

http://www.librarything.com/

Offers a widget for your blog

Catalog your own collection, or a small library or bookstore.

Through Library of Congress and Amazon.com and more.

Why not? Its addicting, useful and you get to peek at what others are reading. (Tim Spalding)

The Flickr show

http://www.flickr.com/

Delicious(just type delicious in Google)

http://del.icio.us/

Don’t miss the Hot List

Rochelle Carr

Notes can be found here:

http://cali-librarian.livejournal.com/

Widgets and Gadgets

Yahoo

http://widgets.yahoo.com/

Google

http://desktop.google.com/plugins/

Slide.comcool tool

http://www.slide.com/

Instant slides from picture files

Easy and fast

Picassa picasaweb.google.com/

seamlessly works with Blogger to upload

and create captions for your pictures.

Slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/

Upload your PowerPoint slides onto the Web.

Imbed into your Blog or anywhere

cool tool

LiveJournal

http://www.livejournal.com/

Blog that offers a variety of features

Meebo.com

http://wwwm.meebo.com/

Offers widgets for your blog

cool tool

Morphing Mashing Web

We hear terms like mash-ups

and wonder…

Huh?

But when you find out that putting some things together

• Like

• Flickr and Yahoo and Powerpoint

• Google and Blogger and Picasa

• My blog and say…Meebo and LibraryThing and Flickr…

To the moon, Alice!

…the sky is the limit

Web 3 anyone?

Thank you.