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New Trends on the Web

New Trends on the Web. August 2005. Overview. Social Bookmarking Tagging (a.k.a. Folksonomy) Flickr File sharing with BitTorrent et al. Geospatial Web – Google Maps, GoogleEarth Other Miscellaneous Items. What you should learn. What in the world is “Social Bookmarking”? What is tagging?

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New Trends on the Web

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  1. New Trends on the Web August 2005

  2. Overview • Social Bookmarking • Tagging (a.k.a. Folksonomy) Flickr • File sharing with BitTorrent et al. • Geospatial Web – Google Maps, GoogleEarth • Other Miscellaneous Items

  3. What you should learn • What in the world is “Social Bookmarking”? • What is tagging? • What is flickr? • What does BitTorrent do for us? • What possibilities arise from Google Maps?

  4. Background These new trends are being driven by these resources: • Fast, cheap internet access • Cheap storage • Open APIs to Big Websites (e.g., Google, Amazon) • The cooperation of many, many people

  5. Theme The one ginormous trend is "Power to the People" making the world more democratic. Information is flowing from common people to common people without the aid of established entities.

  6. del.icio.us • What is del.icio.us? • Demo • What’s your favorite web site? • http://del.icio.us/fincher42 • http://del.icio.us/popular • http://fresh.homeunix.net/delicious.html • Live bookmarks via RSS • Searching with http://del.icio.us/tag/ • Find people with similar interests Photo by Saffanna

  7. Flickr • http://flickr.com (photos+tagging) • “May we see your photos please?” • Hot tags http://flickr.com/photos/tags/ • Licensing options • Blog http://blog.flickr.com/ • Groups – Pisa Pushers

  8. Folksonomy • Folksonomy results from a group of people cooperating to organize information by adding single words to describe something • Not like Biology Species, genus,family, order, class, phylum, Kingdom • Problems: • synonyms, ANT, ant • similar tags: dog, dogs, puppies • no hierarchy: • Advantages: • wide coverage • Simple • Auto-Grouping Photo by mikecpeck

  9. BitTorrent • Allows large files to be distributed over the internet very efficiently • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent • The more copies downloaded, the faster distribution becomes • Legality? Bram Cohen

  10. Internet Protocol TV • What is it? • BBC is experimenting with it • Microsoft has IPTV software • SBC is buying Microsoft’s IPTV software • Future of TV is more like a library than a movie theater

  11. Public Media • Blogging (Text – Newspaper) • PodCasting (Audio – Radio Station) • Vlogging (Video – TV Station) • http://www.vlogdir.com/ • http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/

  12. Google Maps • Many of you have seen the satellite photos • GoogleEarth • Fly to bridge along 360 • View businesses • PhotoTagging

  13. GeoBlogging • http://geobloggers.com • http://txfx.net/2005/05/17/flickr-google-maps-geobloggers/

  14. Vista (nee Longhorn) • Delivery Nov 7th 2006 • Integrated “real” search engine • New user interface – Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon, Aero) • Virtual Folders • Windows Communication Foundation. WCF (Indigo) • Windows XP SP3?

  15. Screen Shot of Vista Virtual Folders

  16. IE7 • IE7 (Only in Vista and XP) • tabbed windows • Some CSS2 standards support • RSS newsfeed reader • security

  17. Screen Shot of IE7 Beta

  18. Miscelleous • WiMax - WiFi on steroids • BPL - Google made investment • AJAX - a more interactive web browsing experience • SnoCap – Legal Peer-To-Peer songs • Zigbee – the tiny home network

  19. Wrap-up • What in the world is “Social Bookmarking”? • What is tagging? • What is flickr? • What does BitTorrent do for us? • What possibilities arise from Google Maps?

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