It’s the End of the Web as We Know it Redux
July 21, 2008
Presentation Materials
- PowerPoint Presentation (19 MB)
Contact Information
Mark Greenfield
Director of Web Services
Mail Drop: 109 Norton Hall
Office Location: 454 Porter Hall
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, N.Y. 14260
Phone: (716)645-2811
Fax: (716)645-7761
Email: markgr@buffalo.edu
Abstract
A seismic shift is underway. Exponential change will make tomorrow’s technology unrecognizable. The mobile web is making always on — always connected a reality. Prosumers are driving the move from Mass Media to My Media. The weapons of mass collaboration have laid the groundwork for the Participation Age. It’s no longer about one-way communication to an audience. It’s about two-way conversation with a community.
It’s time to rethink a few things.
Completely updated for 2008, this award winning presentation will focus on the (r)evolution of the web and the implications for higher education web professionals. A review of the latest trends will be followed by strategies on how to fully leverage the full potential of emerging technologies.
Recommended Books
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- Fogg, B.J. Persuasive Technology. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003
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- Levine, Rick and others. The Cluetrain Manifesto. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001
- Li, Charlene. Bernoff, josh groundswell. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2008
- Morville, Peter. Ambient Findability. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2005
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- Trippi, Joe. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. New York NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004
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Web Resources
Introduction
- Spinning Dancer
- TheWorldWideWeb Browser
- Google Earth
- local.live.com (from Microsoft)
- Slingbox
The End of Print
- Books Aren’t Dead – They’re Just Going Digital – (Newsweek Cover Story from November 2007)
- The Coming Death of Paper as an Information Storage Medium
- Princeton University to publish Kindle textbooks
- Steve Jobs Was Only Half-Right: People Do Read – Even Kids – They Just Do It Online
- Move Over Kindle: Here Comes the Chinese E-Book
- Envisioning the Next Chapter in Electronic Books
- NY Times publisher: Our goal is to manage the transition from print to internet
- Faculty Members Prefer Digitized Texts
- LG.Philips Announces 16.7-Million Color Electronic Paper
The World Network
- The next big thing: The Web as your servant (from USA Today)
- Loopt
- MIT iFIND
- eSuds
- NJIT’s SmartCampus Project
Virtual Reality
- Second Life
- Vassar College offers on-demand tours of its SecondLife campus
- Penn State Admissions site on Teen Second Life
- Teachers, college students lead a Second Life (From USA Today)
- Educators Are Split About the Viability of Second Life
- Club Penguin
- Webkinz
E-mail is Sooo Dead
- Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead (from c|net)
- E-Mail Reply to All: ‘Leave Me Alone’ (from the Washington Post)
- E-Mail is Broken
- E-Mail is for Old People
- E-Mail is so Five Minutes Ago (from BusinessWeek)
- Is E-mail in Danger?
- Can Social Tools Really Replace Email? – They Already Are! (Part I)
The Read/Write Web
Information Overload
Redefining TIme
The End of Walled Gardens
- The Conversation has left the Blogosphere
- Ladies and Gentleman, The Conversation has Left the Building
- Netvibes
- FriendFeed
- Spokeo
- PingFM
Community
- Teens and Social Media (PEW)
- Why Facebook is the Future (From Time Magazine)
- Social Networking is a Feature, Not a Destination
- The future of social networks: Social networks will be like air
- How Is A Social Network on Ning Different from a Facebook Group?
- Ning
- Video Interview with Gina Bianchini (CEO of Ning)
- uwebd Social Network
- Bigger Not Always Better in Social Media
- Sermo a sign of a larger trend toward specialized social networks
- Social Networking’s Next Phase (From the New York Times)
- Social Media and the value of weak ties
- How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye
- ASPCA Online Community
The Mobile Web
- Deeper insights into the 7th Mass Media channel, mobile is to the internet, what TV is to radio
- W3C Mobile Web Initiative
- Mobile Web Design
- The Phone of the Future: Wired to Run Your Life
- Mobile Browsing Seen Changing Face of the Web (from InformationWeek)
- More Cell Phones Than People
- More Internet users mobile than wired in Japan
- 3G Mobile Phones
- Summary from Wikipedia
- 3G Today
- 3G Newsroom
- Texting Translation Service
Strategies
- Fear and Loathing in Web 2.0 (From Currents magazine)
- Radical Transparency
- 2008 Horizon Report
Concluding Thoughts
- From Gutenberg to Gates to Google (… and beyond)
Getting Started
- Start using IM and Text Messaging
- Learn how to use RSS (Bloglines, Netvibes)
- Participate in the Blogosphere (WordPress, Blogger)
- Get expereince with social sites (del.icio.us, flickr, YouTube)
- Join some social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning)
- Experiment with the new stuff (Twitter, Second Life, Yahoo Pipes, FriendFeed, Plaxo, Flock)
Training (Video Instruction)
- Social Networking in Plain English
- Wikis in Plain English
- Social Bookmarking in Plain English – del.icio.us
- RSS in Plain English
- Bloglines Tutorial