Monthly Archives: May 2011

Module 2: Mashups

Posted on 30/05/2011 by dhoneybone

Mashups are interactive Web 2.0 applications that utilise content retrieved from external data sources to create new and innovative services Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) The API permits web communities to create an open architecture for sharing content and data. As … Continue reading →

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Module 2: Tagging

Posted on 30/05/2011 by dhoneybone

What value does a user-generated folksonomy offer in comparison with a taxonomy designed by information professionals? What is a Folksonomy? Informal tags created by communities of users of such sites as Flickr and Delicious to enable content searching. Created by … Continue reading →

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Module 2: Blogs and Microblogging

Posted on 29/05/2011 by dhoneybone

Blogs Simple and prolific. Adopted by subject librarians in university libraries with mixed results due to content and frequency of posts. I chose WordPress to host my Online Learning Journal based on a seminar I attended whilst at RMIT where … Continue reading →

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Module 1: Web 2.0 Social Networking and the social life of information

Posted on 26/05/2011 by dhoneybone

Begins with an exploration of definitions of Web 2.0 through Wikipedia, O’Reilly and Youtube Key points Wikipedia: McAfee’s SLATE acronym and also consider Tim Berners Lee assertion that Web 2.0 is simply a ‘piece of jargon’. O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Meme … Continue reading →

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Mashup: Book Depository

Posted on 26/05/2011 by dhoneybone

An example of a mashup: Book Depository Live Hypnotic viewing as a map of the world moves around highlighting real time book purchases through Book Depository (free postage). No wonder Amazon UK have started to offer free postage to Australian … Continue reading →

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