News and views from the Internet generation
I stole the title of today's post from Katherine's Gargoyle blog posting. It was timely for me because I'm working on a presentation for next month's Illinois School Library Media Association conference. I'm supposed to talk about "unexpected consequences," the stuff that happens online that wasn't necessarily intended or imagined. So I've spent some time lately talking to students about the services they use and how their lives have changed because of this or that web application. Karen gave me some good insight into how she uses deviantART.com to get ideas for her own artwork. Shara shared what she knows about how social activists are using social networking tools to organize themselves and to get the word out about their views and events. Jeremy told me that "Facebook is the new rolodex." That pithy quote will definitely make an appearance on one of my slides.
I've also been poking around in spaces I don't usually frequent. Like Gaia Online, Twitter, and Justin.tv. Gaia, an "avatar-based persistent social world," is very popular around here. Twitter, a short message system that you use to report what you are doing in real time, is not very popular around here - at least not yet. And Justin.tv, a platform for videostreaming your life, who knows? From what I can see, an awful lot of people who broadcast are either sleeping or sitting in front of their computers. Give me Law and Order any time.
So what Web 2.0 app has changed the way you live? Do tell.
I've also been poking around in spaces I don't usually frequent. Like Gaia Online, Twitter, and Justin.tv. Gaia, an "avatar-based persistent social world," is very popular around here. Twitter, a short message system that you use to report what you are doing in real time, is not very popular around here - at least not yet. And Justin.tv, a platform for videostreaming your life, who knows? From what I can see, an awful lot of people who broadcast are either sleeping or sitting in front of their computers. Give me Law and Order any time.
So what Web 2.0 app has changed the way you live? Do tell.
posted by franceylibrarian at 10:21 AM
6 Comments:
For me, there's no doubt about it: Facebook is a big deal. MySpace may have more users (though it's uncertain how much longer that will be true), but especially thanks to their new open platform, the utility of Facebook goes far beyond just posting on people's walls. My personal favorite thing is actually photo tagging.
I second that.
Ah, yes, tagging goodness. I suppose once you are swallowed up by Facebook photo tagging, you might not be so interested in more general photo sharing sites like Flickr?
Web 2.0 is moving onward to Web 3.0 and beyond. Once anyone figures out what any of that means.
In the meantime, you should really get onto LinkedIn or Doostang, two sites for people who have graduated from college, and from facebook.
As for knowledge sharing, ideacv is an amazing new startup from Stanford- it's like Flickr, but for people's ideas. (full disclosure: an acquaintance of mine helped found it)
And if you're getting confused by your rapidly growing list of IM clients (I have friends on gchat, AIM, MSN) bring your IM communications together with meebo.com. It's better than Gaim or Trillian for most people.
PS: Hope all is well at the uni library :)
Jack! So good to see your alum-ish post. I've joined LinkedIn, but haven't done much with it except collect friends. On my list now: check out ideacv. Thanks for the tip. I have played with meebo, but on my own computer(s) I find that I prefer using a couple of "multilingual" clients. Anyone in your realm twittering? Uni library is good, students keep me sane.
Thanks for sharing Francey.
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