What really impresses me about the big Web 2.0 sites is how they use familiar metaphors in new ways. By starting from what we already know (such as profiles, groups, ratings, and ‘friends’), people naturally…
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The CIT (Center for Instructional Technology) Innovation Award celebrates the “excellent use of technology in education” at USF. One of the 2007 awards honored the use of wikis, open source, and podcasting at the business…
A draft version of a new position paper, “Web 2.0: A social informatics perspective“, is now available online. Any actual intelligence on its pages is the product of my co-authors Howard Rosenbaum and Pnina Shachaf,…