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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 in [...]

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 to [...]

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 with [...]

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)