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November 1, 2006
"Skinny on Web 2.0"
A short article from Information Week that has a simple definition of web 2.0:
"Web 2.0 is all the Web sites out there that get their value from the actions of users."
It lists Wikipedia, Digg, Technorati, Flickr, and Frappr as examples.
Gotta love the conclusion: "Radical innovation is alive and well on the Internet."
Could we write the article about those libraries that get their value from the actions of their users AND employ radical innovation. There are some. Off the top of my head, my list would start with (but not be limited to):
Hennepin County (OPAC on their MySpace and more)
Charlotte & Mecklenberg (Library Loft anbd Imaginon and Learning 2.0)
Alliance Library System (Second Life Library 2.0, InfoIsland.org)
InfOhio and Boston PL (SchoolRooms.net)
NCSU and their Endeca OPAC overlay
Queens PL and their Aquabrowser
Sun and Stanford and their Grokker pilots
Anything John Blyberg does at AADL.org
Leave more in the comments.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at November 1, 2006 4:09 PM
Comments
Thanks for your kind words...we love life on the edge!!...KP
Posted by: Kitty Pope at November 3, 2006 8:44 AM