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The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2006

  Don Hinchliffe takes a look at the best Web 2.0 applications/sites on the internet. If you are looking for examples of the more popular Web 2.0 sites, this is a good place to start. It is not an exhaustive list, but does cover the basics.

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

 
Wikinomics

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything I listened to a fascinating interview today with Dan Topscott from New Paradigm. He has just finished a new book called Wikinomics. In this radio interview on NPR, he explains and illustrates the significance of this change and how it affects society.

Listen to this story...  or check out the book's homepage.

 

Todd 

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Generational differences and the Internet

I was impressed by a few insightful words from an Emeritus professor in Australia about his students approach to the Internet and participatory culture. Its a great 2 page editorial - well worth reading.

Todd

"I always considered the Internet a great invention. It gives me as a scientist so many more possibilities: targeted search for publications I need for my own work, access to publications without the need to walk to the library, quick turnaround of correspondence with colleagues through email, and so forth. What I had not yet realized was that young people use the Internet in a very different way...

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Internet encyclopaedias go head to head

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"Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds.

 One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. This radical and rapidly growing publication, which includes close to 4 million entries, is now a much-used resource. But it is also controversial: if anyone can edit entries, how do users know if Wikipedia is as accurate as established sources such as Encyclopaedia Britannica?"

Full Article with PDF and Britannica's rebuttal...

 
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