Timeline of Web 2.0 Resource Introduction
Blogging
Media sharing
Microblogging
Podcasting
RSS agregation
Social media
Social networks
Virtual worlds
Wikis
Source: Future Workplace.
Bebo The sixth largest social network in the world, according to comScore, owned by AOL and especially popular in the U.K, Ireland, and New Zealand.
www.bebo.com
Bing Microsoft’s search engine.
www.bing.com
Blogger A Web site providing an online service where users can create and customize their own blogs, free of charge.
www.blogger.com
Crowdspring A Web site where individuals can get artists from around the world to contribute designs for a project.
www.crowdspring.com
Delicious A popular social bookmarking site.
www.delicious.com
Digg A social news site where users submit content that is then rated by the community. The content with the most positive ratings, or “diggs,” rises to the top.
www.digg.com
eCademy An online networking service for business contacts, events, and groups.
www.ecademy.com
Facebook The largest social network in the world, according to comScore.
www.facebook.com
Fellowforce A Web site that connects talent with organizations.
www.fellowforce.com
Flickr An image- and video-sharing Web site.
www.flickr.com
Friendfeed A social media feed aggregator; allows users to aggregate services such as Twitter, Flickr, and personal blog posts on one platform. Users subscribe to one another’s feeds and comment on posted content.
http://friendfeed.com
Friendster The fourth largest social network in the world, according to comScore, with 90 percent of its members from Asia.
www.friendster.com
Google Docs A Web-based office suite that allows users to collaboratively edit documents in real time; offers word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and other capabilities. All documents created with Google Docs are stored centrally on the Web.
http://docs.google.com
Google Maps An application from Google that, in addition to point-to-point mapping and direction services, can be used to map other forms of data, such as real estate data or restaurants.
http://maps.google.com
HI5 The third largest social network in the world, according to comScore, especially popular in Latin America.
www.hi5.com
iGoogle A customizable start page. Allows users to add “gadgets” that range from RSS feeds of popular news outlets or blogs to weather and stock information.
www.igoogle.com
iTunes University A feature present in Apple’s iTunes software through which faculty at a wide variety of universities can distribute digital lessons and podcasts of their courses.
www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning
Last.fm An Internet radio and music community. Keeps track of listening behavior and connects users with people who have similar tastes.
www.last.fm
LinkedIn A business-oriented social network.
www.linkedin.com
Loopt A mobile social mapping application that can display the current locations of a user’s social network using mobile phones and mobile devices.
www.loopt.com
Mashable A large Internet news blog that carries news about a variety of topics from social networking sites to emerging start-ups.
http://mashable.com
MIT Open Courseware A project from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which the materials used in virtually all of MIT’s courses are made available on the Internet, free of charge.
http://ocw.mit.edu
MySpace The second largest social network in the world, according to comScore.
www.myspace.com
My Yahoo! A customizable start page. Allows users to add “gadgets” that range from RSS feeds of popular news outlets or blogs to weather and stock information.
my.yahoo.com
Ning An online service for creating, customizing, and sharing a social network.
www.ning.com
Orkut The fifth largest social network in the world, according to comScore. Owned by Google, it is especially popular in India and Brazil.
www.orkut.com
Pandora An Internet radio and music community; keeps track of your listening behavior and allows you to create radio stations tailored to your tastes.
www.pandora.com
Plaxo An online service to connect your contacts.
www.plaxo.com
QQ The most popular instant messaging program in China.
www.qq.com
Rypple A Web-based peer review tool that enables colleagues to give one another feedback.
www.rypple.com
Second Life A virtual world accessible via a free program that enables users to interact with one another through avatars.
www.secondlife.com
Skype A popular program that allows users to make free computer-to-computer phone calls and video calls over the Internet. Skype can also be used as an instant messaging service.
www.skype.com
Twitter A microblogging service through which users communicate in short messages called “tweets” that are limited to 140 characters.
www.twitter.com
Wetpaint A free wiki-hosting service.
www.wetpaint.com
Wikipedia A popular community-generated encyclopedia whose content is edited and added to by the community at large.
www.wikipedia.org
Wordpress An online service where users create and customize their own blogs, free of charge.
www.wordpress.com
World of Warcraft A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with more than 11.5 million subscribers.
www.worldofwarcraft.com
Yammer A microblogging service that caters to business users; only individuals with the same e-mail address domain can join a given network.
www.yammer.com
Yonkly A microblogging service on which users can create their own customized microblogging interface.
www.yonkly.com
YouTube A video-sharing Web site where users upload, view, and share video clips. Content ranges from commercial movie and TV clips to user-generated content.
www.youtube.com