Transcript Future Web

Future Web
Web 2.0
2wayweb
Future Web
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Where is the web going?
Gartner’s Hype Cycle
Experience Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Design Principles
Recommended Reading
Where is the Web Going?
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Listen to the World
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Gartner
CNET
Wired
RSS Feeds
Conferences
Seek Out Thought Leaders
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Tim O’Reilly’s Foo Camp – Every October
Web Standards Project webstandards.org
RSS Feeds
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Are you reading RSS Feeds?
Are you producing RSS Feeds?
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I’m using Sage plug-in for Firefox
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What is Web 2.0?
Web 1.0
 DoubleClick
 Ofoto
 Britanica Online
 Screenscraping
 Publishing
 Taxonomy
 Sticky
Web 2.0
 Google AdSense
 Flickr
 Wikipedia
 Web Services
 Participation
 Tagging/Folksonomy
 Syndication
Experience Web 2.0
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Flickr – flickr.com (user as contributor, tagging)
del.icio.us – del.icio.us (user as contributor, tagging)
Google Map – map.google.com (rich user experience)
Tufts Campus Compass – inside.tufts.edu/compass/
MusicPlasma - musicplasma.com (rich user experience)
Newsmap - marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
Amazon – www.amazon.com (user as contributor)
Mash-Ups
 Google Pedometer gmap-pedometer.com
 Flickr Color Picker krazydad.com/colrpickr/
What is Delicious?
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I wonder what XYZ thinks is delicious
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Jeff Veen: del.icio.us/veen
Jon Hicks: del.icio.us/jonhicks
Molly: del.icio.us/molly
Wanna know what I think is delicious?
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Glenda: del.icio.us/glsims99
(no good tool for discovering delicious feeds that I’m aware of)
Web 2.0 Meme (from FooCamp)
Web 2.0 Design Principles
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Quality data and data management RULES!
The Long Tail - The Market of One
Hackability – Open Architecture
Architecture of Participation
Harness Collective Intelligence
Rich User Experience
Data & Data Management RULES!
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Web 2.0 requires a rich database with excellent
databases management tools
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Google, Amazon, Maps, Ebay, Napster
Infoware – not software. Information Application.
Amazon – adding to/extending their data
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Editor reviews
Publisher content (bookcovers, inside pages)
Customer reviews
Most popular (based on sales)
SQL is the new HTML
The Long Tail – The Market of One
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Small sites make up the bulk of the internet's content;
narrow niches make up the bulk of the internet's
possible applications.
Therefore: Leverage customer-self service and
algorithmic data management to reach out to the entire
web, to the edges and not just the center, to the long
tail and not just the head.
The Long Tail
Thoughts from Adam Connor
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Books
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Movies
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A large fraction of Amazon's sales come from books too obscure for most
"bricks and mortar" bookstores to stock.
The growth of the long tail may change the economics of many
industries.
When most movies require theatres, only a few movies can be hits at
any one time, and the distribution channel is powerful
When you can download them directly and watch them on an HDTV home
theatre, a lot more movies will enjoy at least modest success.
Education
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if you can turn courses into digital experiences with minimal manpower for
assessment, you can afford to "teach" courses that are too "esoteric" to be
taught in physical classrooms.
Hackability – Open Architecture
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Lightweight programming models-loosely coupled
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Web Services – SOAP or AJAX
Barriers to re-use and remix are extremely low.
Harness power of open source developer community.
Innovation in assembly:
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Example - Flickr API - www.flickr.com/services/
Open API Reference - www.programmableweb.com/apis
Think Syndication not Sticky
Web 2.0 & Open API
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“Everything you create online is being ripped apart
and recombined with other stuff by thousands of
curious geeks.”
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“or at least it should be.”
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“The easiest way to fail is by trying to control all this.”
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Jeff Veen of adaptivepath.com
Architecture of Participation
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Pay people to participate
Motivate volunteers to participate
Users contribute as a side-effect of ordinary use
www.netflix.com
Build Systems That Get Better
the More People Use Them
Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
Why the Many Can Be Smarter than the Few
Collective Wisdom
A group of independent thinkers can be smarter
than the smartest person in the group.
Draws on a diverse set of information sources
and opinions
Looks outside their norm (we tend to surround
ourselves with people we agree with)
Web 2.0 – Concept Catalyst
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Conversations that were once limited to a handful of folks
nearby are now conducted amongst thousands of very bright
minds all over the world, using blogs and message boards.
Ideas that once would have taken years to work out, now
happen in months, as one idea begets another.
The web is changing the nature of collaboration.
For hundreds of years, a lot of the value of Universities has
been in getting bright people together in a place where they can
interact.
While there are still advantages to face-to-face contact, the web
is providing an alternative accessible to a much larger number
of actors.
Quote from Adam Connor
Amazon & Netflix
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Science of user engagement
Invitation to participate on virtually every page
Harnesses the power of the users
Built in ethic of cooperation – win/win
Harness the Power of Collective Intelligence
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Trust your users
Users Add Layers of Value
Applications that learn from user behavior
Users contribute as a side-effect of ordinary use
Software gets better the more people use it
Emergent user behavior not predetermined
Rich User Experience
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Usable
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Multi-sensory
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Sight, Sound, Touch
Truly Interactive
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useful, easy to use, likeable, learnable
Emergent user behavior, Not predetermined, Non-linear
Collaborative
Mentally Stimulating
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Emotionally, Intellectually, Socially, Spirtually Satisfying
Rich User Experiences
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Arts
Social Networks
Gaming
Rich Museum Experiences
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Turning the Pages – The British Library
www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
PEM Artscape
www.pem.org/artscape/index.php
SFMOMA Anderson Project
www.sfmoma.org/anderson/
Recommended Reading
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What is Web 2.0? by O’Reilly
www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-isweb-20.html
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Programmable Web
www.programmableweb.com/matrix