What was your favorite thing you learned about?
I enjoyed looking over the Web 2.0 award winners at SEOmoz. Many of the two point oh challenges were easy and familiar to me, but I found a few interesting sites at SEOmoz.
What did you like least about Web 2.0?
I’m glad the challenge was implemented so quickly after the committee was formed but I wish I could have been even sooner. Many of our patrons have been asking for help (since I began working here) with 2.o apps and so few Librarians were knowledgeable enough to help.
What areas of Web 2.0 do you think the library should get more involved in?
The library must allow users to access this technology. Why isn’t there a music downloading station in the Library? Why can’t people bring their iPods and iTunes gift certificates here for use? We have to find ways to accomodate usage of 2.0 hardware as well as the software. Why are there so few PCplus machines?
What Web 2.0 services have you shared with your friends and family?
My family has become familiar with Flickr, MySpace, and Facebook thanks in some part to me.
Look up Web 3.0 and predict what you think it will be.
I’ve been reading a lot about Web 3.0. Many believe it will be a semantic web: ”an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.” These people see the eveolution of the web like this. The early web was machine to people. No interaction. We simply took information from the web. Only developers and programmers were providing content. Web 2.0 was people to people. It’s all about generating|sharing|commenting on content.
Web 3.0 would be machine to machine. “The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so that they can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing and combining information on the web” [Wikipedia]. I believe, in order for machines to understand machines and make “intuitive” decisions, something will need to be done about standards.
But I believe Web 3.0 will also involve huge advances in hardware, where touch screen capability will compliment a highly developed semantic web. Keyboards, the mouse, and low pixel per inch resolutions will become as obsolete as the operating systems they now run with.
