It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (and I Feel Fine!)
National Technical Institute for the Deaf – October 5, 2007
Presentation Materials
- PowerPoint Presentation (PowerPoint – 3.0 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
It’s a new dawn. The next generation of the web is approaching. A web that is accessed more and more by mobile devices – anytime, anywhere. Where it is just as easy to create content as it is to consume it. A web connected through syndication rather than links, and where more and more, the user is in control.
This presentation will focus on the future direction of the web and the implications for higher education web professionals. Topics will include the mobile web, converging technologies, the read/write web, rich media, web 2.0, and everyware. The goal is to have the audience take a step back and think long term about the social and cultural changes, and the new opportunities for communicating and providing services to our constituents.
Recommended Books
- Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. New York NY: Hyperion, 2006
- Cairncross, Frances. The Death of Distance. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2001
- Fogg, B.J. Persuasive Technology. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003
- Greenfield, Adam. Everyware.Berkeley, CA: New Riders, 2006
- Kurzweil, Ray.The Singularity is Near. New York NY: Penquin, 2005
- Levine, Rick and others. The Cluetrain Manifesto. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001
- Morville, Peter. Ambient Findability. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2005
- Rheingold, Howard. Smart Mobs. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002
- Trippi, Joe. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. New York NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004
- Schwartz, Barry. The Paradox of Choice. New York, NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005
- Shapiro, Andrew. The Control Revolution. New York, NY: Century Foundation, 1999
- Surowiecki, James. The Wisdom of Crowds. New York, NY: Random House, 2004
- Warlick, David. Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century. Worthington, Ohio: Linworth Publishing, 2004
Web Resources
YouTube Videos
Introduction
- TheWorldWideWeb Browser
- Google Earth
- Slingbox
The End of the Web Page Paradigm
- Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content (by Joshua Porter – from Digital Web Magazine)
- Content in Motion: What iTunes Can Teach Us About Managing Web Content
- 2007 Will Be a Big Year for RSS
- The Copyright Debate & RSS
- Bloglines
The Mobile Web
- 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
The Evolution of Content
- Tim Berners Lee on the read/write Web
- The Long Tail
- YouTube
- Google Docs and Spreadsheets
- Zoho
- Netvibes
- Pageflakes
- StikiPad
- Basecamp
- Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility