WSA Web 2.0 Presentation

by Adam Procter for Learning & Teaching week at University of Southampton 2009

Web 2.0 for Creatives

Lecture on web 2.0 and its impact and use for creative thinkers/artists.

Web 2.0. What is it - and is it any different?

Looks at what Web 2.0 is, - people, business and technology and questions whether this is simply a continuation of Web 1.0

Value in Web 2.0

COMP6051, COMP6052 Notes Social Networking Technologies: Value in Web 2.0

The Web 2.0 Development Survival Guide

Building software for Web 2.0 and the Social Media world is non-trivial. It requires understanding how to create infrastructure that will survive at Web scale, meaning that it may have to deal with tens of millions of individual items of data, and cope with hits from hundreds of thousands of users every minute. It also requires you to build tools that will be part of a much larger ecosystem of software and application families. In this lecture we will look at how traditional relational database systems have tried to cope with the scale of Web 2.0, and explore the NoSQL movement that seeks to simplify data-storage and create ultra-swift data systems at the expense of immediate consistency. We will also look at the range of APIs, libraries and interoperability standards that are trying to make sense of the Social Media world, and ask what trends we might be seeing emerge.

Toward 2^W beyond Web 2.0

From its inception as a global hypertext system, the Web has evolved into a universal platform for deploying loosely coupled distributed applications. 2^W is a result of the exponentially growing Web building on itself to move from a Web of content to a Web of applications.