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Presentations I gave at various conferences, sometimes with links to slides

Web 2.0: Issues

There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of pri­vacy, secur­ity, copy­right — all those things you’d rather you didn’t need to worry about. Take pri­vacy for example. On many social net­work­ing sites people sign up and then put in all their per­sonal inform­a­tion simply because there’s a field there for it. […]

2007 11 13 Identity and Privacy Comments (3)

Web 2.0: Process

The third aspect of Web 2.0, which is often under-appreciated, is the pro­cess aspect. This has changed people’s expect­a­tions of what soft­ware can do, and how it should be delivered. This cat­egory includes open source, con­tinual beta and quick release cycles, and some new busi­ness mod­els. Pro­cess Cloud Not all of the things that are important […]

2007 11 12 Technology Comments (0)

Web 2.0: Technical

The tech­nical com­pon­ent of Web 2.0 includes XML, Ajax, APP, vari­ous pro­gram­ming lan­guages, plug-ins and wid­gets, and the REST archi­tec­ture. All of these have a role to play in sup­port­ing the web sites that incor­por­ate Web 2.0 fea­tures, while many pred­ate the Web 2.0 phe­nomenon. There are far too many inter­est­ing tech­nical fea­tures for me […]

2007 11 09 Technology Comments (0)

Web 2.0: Social and Collaboration

The social and col­lab­or­a­tion part of Web 2.0 mostly revolves around the con­cepts of social net­work­ing, user-generated con­tent, and the long tail. Social Cloud Social net­work­ing is the idea that people can meet and talk and organ­ise their social lives using the Web instead of, or in addi­tion to, more tra­di­tional meth­ods such as talk­ing face […]

2007 11 08 Technology Comments (0)

Web 2.0: Buzzwords

Like any hyped tech­no­logy, Web 2.0 has a lot of buzzwords. They include the tag (as in tag cloud), the folk­sonomy, the long tail (more about that in a later post), and social soft­ware. Social soft­ware is there to sup­port net­work­ing and social activ­it­ies via the inter­net. Lots of people spend lots of time interacting […]

2007 11 07 Technology Comments (1)

Web 2.0: Introduction

At the CSW XML Sum­mer School this year I gave a talk on Web 2.0, in the Trends and Tran­si­ents track. I’ve been pon­der­ing whether to write it up as a series of post­ings or not; there’s so much hype and inform­a­tion around Web 2.0 that many people are bored silly with it now. I […]

2007 11 06 Technology Comments (1)