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The "World Live Web" (aka "social media" or "social software") is a catch-all phrase used to encompass the immense wave of social activity that has put people and interactions (rather than documents and transactions) at the very center of the Web. Key biases of the World Live Web include: openness, portability, decentralization, transparency, organic/viral growth and, most importantly, sharing.
Things We Do on the World Live Web
(ranked roughly by popularity)
- 1. Social Networking
2. Blogging
3. Wikis
4. Photo-sharing
5. Tagging (aka social bookmarking, folksonomy
6. VOIP and Open IM (Skype, Jabber, Google Talk)
7. Podcasting
8. RSS syndication (also Atom)
9. RSS aggregation
10. Blog search (Technorati, Feedster, etc)
11. Tag search
12. User-generated ratings
13. Viral video - 14. File Sharing
Places We Go on the World Live Web
- Wikipedia
- A community-generated encylopedia that anyone can add to or edit.
- Craigslist
- The leading classifieds website, born of a grass-roots effort by Craig Newmark. Anyone can publish or respond to any post in this wonderfully simple format.
- Flickr
- The leading photo-sharing social network. The darling of the blogosphere, it's become a world unto itself.
- LiveJournal
- Extremely popular blogging site. Open source. Simple format supports quick and fast journal entries. Owned by Six Apart. Very popular among teenagers.
- Typepad
- Popular blogging service. Some argue it's the best balance between easy-of-use and full-featured blogging.
- The leading social networking site for college students.
- Xanga
- A leading blogging site, with a social networking component.
- Blogger
- Perhaps the leading blogging site overall, one of the first, owned by Google. Free, and extremely easy to use.
- Friendster
- The leader first-generation social network. Now eclipsed by MySpace, it's still a very popular community w/ it's own flavor.
- My Yahoo
- The leading RSS aggregation site, among other things.
- MySpace
- The leading social networking site, for better or for worse.
Kewl WLW Articles
- The Unbearable Mashup of Being 2.0
- Opinion: Dissecting the Web 2.0 collage and categorizing the random sample of Web 2.0 companies therein reveals some interesting trends and business plans.
- LOGO2.0 - A folksonomy of logos
- Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world, securely and privately show photos to your friends and family, or blog the photos you take with a cameraphone.
- Most Comprehensive Web 2.0 List
Other Ginormous WLW Sites
- YouTube - video sharing
- The leading site for sharing your videos. Crazy popular.
- Delicious - social bookmarking/tagging
- The leading social bookmarking/tagging site. Bought by Yahoo.
- Upcoming.org- social events calendar
- A social events calendar...
- TagWorld
- Tag anything.
- Skype - The whole world can talk for free.
- Free VOIP.
- Digg- put your ear to the blogosphere
- User-rated list of news and memes.
- Second Life
- A collaborative virtual world.
- Blinklist
- Social bookmarking + discovery + expert recommendations.
Lenses into the World Live Web
- Intro to Web 2.0
- Web 2.0 info
- Blog Starter
- Blog tutorial
- MySpace Overlay tutorial
- How to make MySpace overlays
- Social Marketing
- How to use viral marketing on the social web
- Connecting using Social Media
- Getting connected using blogging, social networking, etc.
- The Green Blogosphere
- Environmentally friendly blogosphere.
- Video Blogs
- Video blogging
- The Long Tail
- All about the long tail of the blogosphere, etc.
Books We Read on the World Live Web
Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers
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