- Marines @Iwo Jima - Collaboration (Social Media)
- Twitter (Mashup)
- Web 2.0 Enterprise (The Whole Shebang)
I picked these because I feel they best describe what Web 2.0 means - they harness collective intelligence! Collaboration is the epitome of harnessing user information and is what makes Web 2.0 so prosperous. However, even though collaboration is what creates and defines the information, mashups are what make it available as a valuable data source. Twitter is amazing really. It's a microblogging service and one would wonder its usefulness, but it's been proven very very useful actually. Take this Time article for instance. The gist of the article is that although Twitter is mostly used as a quick means to vent or spread news to your friends, it has the potential to spread short bursts of real time information on the latest, newest information occurring around the world! During the 2009 Iran protests, Twitter made its world-wide debut, it delivered street-level information in real time. That has so much potential, it's kind of frightening.
So I felt Flickr was very user friendly. I didn't feel the tutorials were really necessary but they did help. I did like to see that Flickr is compatible with iPhoto via third party app. I may end up looking into that if I start using Flickr more often. Right now I use other software to edit and manage my pictures. There were a lot of tags that were similar to the ones I used for each picture but the one with the lease similar tags was definitely the picture of the Marines @Iwo Jima. I used that one to depict collaboration because I feel this is the essence of the word. I feel this every time I lay eyes on it.
-Gina
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