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Web 2.0 Social Networking (audience participation)

Social Networking is loosely defined as user created and user participatory content on Internet. It is often mis-called Web 2.0, but broadly includes a mix of both Web (e.g. websites like Facebook)and other types of Internet Content (e.g. personal blogs).
A Brief User's History of the Internet:
  • 1974 - On-line ATMs introduced – The newly connected machines soon led to the modern-day networks we’re all familiar with.
  • 1984 Apple introduces the Desktop Computer in a single two-minute Super Bowl Ad
  • 1986 telephony Internet telephone connections
  • 1988 Commercial eMail available, usually through worksite and educational institutions
  • 1991, Al Gore "invents" the Internet wisely dubs it the “Information Superhighway” in December when Congress passes a bill to build the National Information Infrastructure
  • 1991 Laptops developed - the look and feel of the laptop was defined by the Apple computers, (built in trackball, keyboard and Palm rest). Not to be outdone the IBM Thinkpad 700C introduced the TrackPoint a year later.
  • 1992-1994 Starbucks opens in California
  • 1993 Proprietary Online eMail service provides large scale adoption of Internet email as a global standard.
  • 1993 Cell phones available to public in replaceable hand-held sizes (2nd Generation)
  • 1995 the wwweb and the Internet becomes available to households with Netscape and the W3C
  • 1995 Laptop batteries last more than 10 minutes and laptops, power cords are introduced to recharge them, hard drives big enough to hold data and run software...they become portable.
  • OnStar satellite subscription service available in cars.
  • 1996 MapQuest.com was launched on the Internet, changing the way people obtain street maps and directions forever.
  • 1996 (Palm) Pilot was the name of the first generation of personal digital assistants (PDAs) manufactured by Palm Computing in 1996 (then a division of U.S. Robotics).
  • 1997 IRC Chat and text messaging
  • 1997 AOL Instant Messaging (IM)
  • 1998 Cell Phones start to become mainstream
  • 2000 Text messaging launched for cell phones (2nd Generation)
  • 2000 eHarmony & Match.com online dating
  • 2001 Streaming audio and video
  • 2001 iPod first generation
  • 2002 Blogging becomes available when MetaWeblog API merges RSS 0.92 with XML-RPC to provide a powerful blogging API. 3/14/02.
  • 2003 T-Mobile Hotspot develop wireless access
  • 2003 MySpace launched
  • 2000 GPS systems In Your Car, and on your cell phone, dude! (1996 developed | 2004 in cars)
  • 2004 Facebook launched
  • 2004 Blackberry becomes popular
  • 2004 Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository
  • 2006 A Skype user can have local numbers for voice and video telephone; Skype Video conferencing was introduced in January 2006 for the Windows and Mac OS X platform clients.
  • 2007 the iPod introduced and iPod Ads as well a the iPod nano Ads
  • 2007 iPhone introduced and iPhone Ads (all Ads)
  • 2007 - 2009 Twitter launchedand takes over media and the Congress (see 4 Reception - 4.2 In the Media )
Where is the Internet going?

Internet 2 is a media generated term that is meant to imply that the electronic standards for improving the Internet are, in fact, being improved and being worked on by a "consortium" of businesses, governments, educational and research institutions and leaders worldwide. Standards are thought to be developed for:

Speed, connectivity, electronic universal languages, technology, physical infrastructure and so on.

In fact, they are not.

| Internet2 (Not) | Internt2Abilene (Is) | Internet2 FAQs |

The main organizations running the Internet and contributing to its architecture and use include:

Internet2 Project (UCAID)
for development of advanced network services for higher education and research and the VBNS highspeed backbone on which it will run. See also Abilene and QBone and VBNS+. And there is the Canadian CA*net 3 which is discussed in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Internet Society
Concerned with the evolution of the Internet and its social, political, and technical issues.
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Develops technical standards for the Internet.
Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
Oversees Internet protocols and procedures and the creation of Internet standards.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
Coordinates assignment of protocol numbers. See ICANN (below) for domain name name assignments.
Commercial Internet Exchange Association (CIX)
Nonprofit trade association for public data internetworking service providers.
CommerceNet
Nonprofit group that works to accelerate the application of electronic commerce on the Internet.
W3C, World Wide Web Consortium
An industry consortium run by MIT that develops standards for the evolution of the Web. Registrars ...
ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (supersedes some IANA functions) and list of Accredited Registrars.
InterNIC at Network Solutions
Directory and Databases.

AND ...

MIDS.  
Internet responsiveness or weather as maps from
Internet Domain Survey
run in January and July.
IP Next Generation (IPng).
This set of Web pages provides information of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 is sometimes also called the Next Generation Internet Protocol or IPng.

Web 2.0 is user driven form and content on the Web as opposed to organization driven content. From this point of view the internet information has four primary sharing patterns:

  1. one-to-one,
  2. one-to-many,
  3. many-to-many,
  4. and many-to-one.

Internet Technologies to meet all four of these design patterns, are evolving and include...

...as examples of user developed content.

Businesses use these tools as well.
http://www.japanesegarden.com/

Three particular technologies and attendant device development (wireless, PDAs, iPods, etc) have made Web 2.0 aka Social Networking able to respond to the huge interest people have in participating in content development and sharing.

1. RSS - Rich Site Summary aka Really Simple Syndication - is a lightweight XML format designed for multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication formatting:

for data feeds from a website content publisher (including the BBC, CNET, CNN, Disney, Forbes, Motley Fool, ESPN, Wired, Red Herring, Salon, Slashdot, ZDNet, and more) that syndicates its content through an RSS publisher.

for Blogs - A blog (a contraction of the term web log) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many bogs

2. Wireless and satellite communications andhe building of the cellular network towers

3. PDAs and touchscreens,cell phones (iPhone) and other protable devices

Web 2.0 | | Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

In Summary - What do users of the Internet do with the Internet?

shopping, entertainment, selling, banking, exchanging information, social networking, play, advertise, pay, and much more.

  Top 50 most searched for items. Lycos - week ending June 8, 2002
http://50.lycos.com/
Top 50 most searched for items. Lycos - November, 2000
(Number in parentheses = last year's rank. Note: Item #1 received 200% more hits than item #2.

1. Britney Spears (2)
2. Dragonball (4)
3. Pokemon (1)
4. WWF (3)
5. 'N Sync (14)
6. Pamela Anderson (5)
7. Tattos (11)
8. Napster (-)
9. Jennifer Lopez (18)
10. Summer Olympics (-)
11. NFL (25)
12. Election 2000 (-)
13. Las Vegas (19)
14. Backstreet Boys (7)
15. Eminem (-)
16. Christmas (29)
17. Final Fantasy (24)
18. Anna Kournikova (37)
19. Halloween (9)
20. Marijuana (32)
21. "Big Brother" (-)
22. Baseball (26)
23. the IRS (42)
24. Christina Aguilera (-)
25. the Bible (33)

26. Gundam Wing (-)
27. Sailor Moon (31)
28. NASCAR (28)
29. "The Simpsons" (28)
30. Korn (34)
31. "The X-Men (-)
32. Shania Twain (35)
33. "South Park" (12)
34. Metallica (-)
35. Digimon (-)
36. Skateboarding (-)
37. Madonna (-)
38. Harry Potter (-)
39. NBA (-)
40. Golf (16)
41. Diablo II (-)
42. Carmen Electra (47)
43. Mariah Carey (46)
44. Valentine's Day (-)
45. Blink-182 (-)
46. Survivor" (-)
47. Tupac Shakur (-)
48. Limp Bizkit (40)
49. DMX (-)
50. "Star Wars" (6)

The Top Google Searches by year (Every year, Google compiles a huge list of its top searches; this list is known as the Google Zeitgeist.)
http://websearch.about.com/b/2008/12/12/the-top-google-searches-of-2008.htm