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Contributed by Harry Hoover
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 Web 2.0 Getting To Know Web 2.0 By Harry Hoover. Everyone throws around the term Web 2.0. They know about MySpace.com and Wikipedia.com because of the publicity surrounding them, but I’m convinced most of them don’t have a clear grasp on the range of technologies covered by this term.
Let’s review the web services, peer-to-peer networking, blogs, podcasts and social networks that constitute Web 2.0.
Blogs – Also known as Web logs, these sites are online journals that allow the host or blogger to post comments, text, photos, graphics and links on a regular basis. Visitors to the site often can respond by posting their own comments. There are a number of blog types: photoblogs, videoblogs, podcasts, and even online portfolios called sketchblogs.
Collaborative Tools – Many Web 2.0 tools are services that will replace desktop applications. Google has rolled out a number of them, such a Google Docs & Spreadsheets. This service allows you to store documents and spreadsheets online and to allow others access for collaborative purposes. |
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Contributed by Michael L. Collins
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 Old Paradigm TV 2.0 - The Future of Television and the Genesis of a New Entertainment Form - Part 1. By Michael L. Collins. Entertainment is undergoing a paradigm shift. How, where and when we watch movies or television programs is changing. In the next decade the integration of traditional entertainment platforms with the web will transform our lives just as TV itself did more than a half century ago. For the television industry, especially, panic and worry have already set in despite the fact that they currently hold the same monopoly on our entertainment choices that they've enjoyed for decades. Perhaps they suspect the coming transformation in entertainment won't be of their own making?
Because of this, some people fear the television networks are facing extinction, or at the very least are facing a challenge from the web much like TV posed the motion picture industry in the 1950s. However, any eulogies over the death of TV are most likely premature. What's happening to television, and to a lesser extent to motion pictures, is similar to what happened to the music industry several years ago. |
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Radio Show Audio of lively and informative talk show discussion about "The Web", local Web history, portals & networks & links, and using Web for the benefit of Taos. From the KVOT talk show "The Education of Pattee Brown" with Alex Chavez, Ty Hannigan, and J. R. Ransom. Aired live August 3, 2007.
"A local person working independently, a local company or whatever, can offer information better than those big companies. And I don't think we should rely on those big companies, like hotels.com or realestate.com. Build your own. We're in a war with them. They just want to take as much money as they can out of here. So, as an evangelist for why Taos should do it, do it or Die. Oh, you've got a cute little gallery? Maybe you won't have that in the future..." - J. R. Ransom
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Joomla! Windows Joomla! is supported by a group of over 500 open source Web developers. Joomla! is a way for you to have a very powerful, easy to use, dynamic Web site that has a lot of interesting features and allows you to post new content and make content & photo/image changes very easily.
Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to
everybody.
Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Here are just some of the ways
people use Joomla! software: |
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Joomla Extension Directory 'Joomla PlugIns Take Your Site Further' by J. R. Ransom. What do you want to do with your site? Do you want your site to be a 'portal' or a 'blog' or an online store? OK, no problem. Do you want to add content yourself and post a lot of pictures or videos about a certain topics such as quilting or other craft, or a social topic? It's all right there at the Joomla Extension Directory.
How about a paypal donations box? How about using the six levels of login (3 back, 3 front) to do a community effort? Try an automated emailing list, an mp3 player, podcasts, internal statistics, even a community builder for membership organizations. And oh so much more.
Don't be afraid, most of the 1880+ extensions in there are free, just like the Joomla core files.
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