Farhad Javidi
Web 2.0 Workshop
ShellyCashman Institute, 2008
Google Web 2 Tools
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Create a Gmail account, if you don’t have one
Install Google toolbar
Install and work with Google Talk
Join the ShellyCashman Group
Work with Google Documents
Work with Google Calendar
Work with Google Spreadsheet
Work with Google Presentation
Work with Picasa
Work with Blogger
Work with YouTube
Work with Orkut
Install and work with Lively
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Play Time
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Create a Facebook account, if you don’t have one
Visit Pownce
Visit Twinity
Create a profile on TedTalks
Install Flock
Install FireFox
Play with addons – Ex. PicLens
Play with VoiceTread
Play with SlideShare
Play with pbwiki
Play with flauntr
Play with diigo
Visit giveawayoftheday.com
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PodCasting
A podcast/VideoCast is a media file that is distributed by
subscription (paid or unpaid) over the Internet using syndication
feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. The
host or author of a podcast is often called a PodCaster/VideoCaster.
Gcast
http://www.gcast.com/
Jott
Jott is a voice-to-text transcription service which allows its users to call a
toll-free telephone number and speak for up to 30 seconds. The speech is
then transcribed to text using a combination of software and human
transcribers who work in a "sterile environment which also includes
medical dictation." The message can be sent back to oneself, turned into a
reminder, sent to a contact or group, or sent to a third-party "Jott link"
such as LiveJournal. Transcribed messages can be delivered to recipients
via email, text message, or both.
http://www.jott.com/
Yap
A service for your mobile phone that allows you to: instantly send text
messages...just by talking!
http://www.yapme.com/
Online Office Suites
Zoho is a web office suite which includes tools for word processing,
spreadsheets, presentations, databases, note-taking, wikis, CRM and other
applications. Being web-native, all Zoho applications are operating system
independent.
http://notebook.zoho.com/
Search Engines
oSkope visual search is a free online service developed by oSkope media
gmbh in Zurich and Berlin.
http://www.oskope.com/
Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search
front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research
projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize,
store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and
Live Search..
http://www.tafiti.com/
ChaCha
http://www.chacha.com/
Search Engines
Get custom content for Windows Live and Windows Vista, including Sidebar,
search, Messenger, and more. Live Search Video site plays videos as you
moves your mouse over them.
http://www.live.com/
http://gallery.live.com/
Vivisimo
http://vivisimo.com/
Clusty
http://clusty.com/
DogPile
http://www.dogpile.com/
Online Note Taking
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easy to
publish rich content to your blog. Publish to most major blog services
including Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, Wordpress, Blogger and many
others. Insert photos and videos, maps, tags and lots of other cool content, all
in a snap. Powerful editing features include tables, spell checker, and quick
hyperlinks. Writer shows you what your blog entry will look like before you
post it, using your blog's templates and formatting. Compose your entries
offline and publish them later, when you get back online.
http://writer.live.com/
Online Collaboration
Office Live Workspace is a Microsoft Office Live-branded online
storage and collaboration service for Microsoft Office 2007 documents and
most other common file types. The documents will be stored on remote
servers and will be made available to those who have access to the
documents. The service will also feature shared calendars and task lists.
http://workspace.office.live.com/
Online File Sharing
Live SkyDrive lets you Store and access your personal files from
anywhere online.
http://skydrive.live.com/
What is Virtual World?
A virtual world is a computer-based simulated environment
intended for its users to inhabit and interact via textual, 2 or 3
dimension avatars.
What is Second Life?
Second Life (abbreviated as SL) is an Internetbased virtual world launched in 2003, developed
by Linden Lab, which came to international
attention via mainstream news media in late
2006 and early 2007. A downloadable client
program enables its users, called "Residents", to
interact with each other through avatars,
providing an advanced level of a social network
service combined with general aspects of a
metaverse. Residents can explore, meet other
Residents, socialize, participate in individual and
group activities, create and trade items (virtual
property) and services from one another.
Virtual Worlds
– Lively by Google
http://www.lively.com/
– Multiverse
http://www.multiverse.net/
– MPK20, Sun's Virtual Workplace
http://research.sun.com/projects/mc/mpk20.html
– Built on Project Wonderland
https://lg3d-wonderland.dev.java.net/
– Built on Project Darkstar
http://www.projectdarkstar.com/
– Sony’s Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyquAXKeEI0
Virtual Worlds
– Twinity
– Second Life
http://www.secondlife.com
– There
http://www.there.com
– OpenLife Grid
http://www.openlifegrid.com/
– Croquet Consortium
http://croquetconsortium.org
Social Communities
– Facebook
http://www.facebook.com
– Orkut
http://www.orkut.com
– MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/
– Twitter (140 Characters Long Updates)
http://www.twitter.com
Scribd
Scribd is a document sharing website. It currently houses
over 350,000 documents. The site was initially funded with
$12,000 funding from Y Combinator, but has since received
over $3.7 million from Redpoint Ventures and The Kinsey
Hills Group.
http://www.scribd.com/
Internet TV
Discovery
http://www.discovery.com/googleearth/
Joost
http://www.joost.com/
Zattoo
http://zattoo.com/
HuLu
http://www.hulu.com/
Other Applications
Meebo
http://www.meebo.com/
OpenSocial
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
Box
http://www.box.net/
Twitter
http://twitter.com/
Quatably
http://quotably.com/
Microsoft Cloud
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CardSpace
Windows CardSpace
(codenamed InfoCard), is
Microsoft's client software for
the Identity Metasystem.
http://www.microsoft.com/net/cardspace.aspx
Internet Explorer Eight
Internet Explorer 8 will take the web experience beyond the
page. Internet Explorer 8 introduces a new way to seamlessly
experience the best of the web whether you are a web
developer writing to standards or a user discovering a new
online service. Be one of the first developers to take advantage
of improvements in Internet Explorer 8 for your websites and
applications.
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie8
Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and
cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of
.NET based media experiences and rich interactive
applications for the Web. By using Expression Studio and
Visual Studio, designers and developers can collaborate more
effectively using the skills they have today to light up the Web
of tomorrow.
http://silverlight.net/
Expression Studio
Microsoft® Expression® Studio takes your creative
possibilities to a new level. Studio includes:
Expression Web
Expression Blend
Expression Design
Expression Media
Expression Media Encoder
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/
PopFly
Microsoft Popfly (internally codenamed Springfield) is a website
that allows user to create web pages, program snippets, and mashups
using the Microsoft Silverlight rich internet applications runtime
and the set of online tools provided. Popfly is currently in Beta stage
of development. It requires users to log in with their Windows Live
ID, and fill-up additional information about themselves when
logging in for the first time to use Popfly.
http://www.popfly.com/
Google OpenSocial
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Google OpenSocial
OpenSocial is a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs)
for web-based social network applications, developed by Google, and
released November 1, 2007. Applications implementing the OpenSocial
APIs will be interoperable with any social network system that supports
them
A reference Implementation: Shindig
Apache Open Source Project
A huge community of developers (bigger community of users!)
Google Friend Connect
An online service by Google that allows users on the Internet
to connect with their friends on different websites.
Joining Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Availability,
Google Friend Connect is an Open Social application offered
by Google starting May 2008. Google Friend Connect main
focus is to simplify the connection between social and nonsocial websites standardize the handling and presentation of
social applications and content.
http://www.google.com/friendconnect/
Google Friend Connect
Google Friend Connect
Google Friend Connect
Google Friend Connect
Google Friend Connect is free but requires approval of your
website. It requires no knowledge of web programming and
enables any website to offer social applications and content
from Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Plaxo, MySpace, Google Talk and
others social networks. Here are some examples for using
Google Friend Connect:
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Ecommerce site: Allow users to check whether friends
purchased or review the product you are interested in on
the product web page.
News sites: Allow users insert comments and opinions
with their real profile.
Organization Sites: Increase marketing and
communication within members of the organization.
Questions? Comments?