Monday, 4 February 2008
Why the Web is...
The web is an interesting place.
I think interesting is not the right word. It should be amazing or at least surprisingly.
Why the web is amazing? you might ask.
Well, I first met it in 1993, with the appearance of Mosaic and since then it has always surprised me.
In fact today I even do research on it.
But let’s go on with more concrete issues.
After I graduated in 1995 in Engineering I started to work with youngsters.
They too found the Web an amazing place.
Their reasons are different from mine and this is the first reason for why the Web is. That is, the Web is our reflection, it gives us what we are looking for and like the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of the electron, it is impossible to know everything and find everything on it, even if you try to download it, you will just have one static "picture".
This is the second reason: it is dynamic and evolves.
We hear about Web 2.0 and new features like Blogs, Chats, Forums, Wikis, they all provide interaction and social features. Yes the Web now is Social.
Going in this direction Tim Berners Lee in his Blog posted about changing WWW to GGG :)
Tim's Blog
But before going into more detail about GGG, let's see other reasons why the Web is amazing.
Another reason is related to its global usage: work, hobbies, shops,... information available at a distance of a click.
Recently i found in Techlearning.com a teacher's blog. She has a post quite interesting about web tools usage in her teacher's work.
I recommend visiting it and trying some tools like:Blogger, Digg,Feedburner, Show Me Widget , Netvibes, Google Reader , Twitter , Newsmap , Del.icio.us, Camtasia, Ning.
That's why the Web is amazing and keeps beeing amazing every day...
Monday, 14 January 2008
My Social Network
I am now using Social Networks. It is exactly what i was looking for.
Please visit and join in : esgondomar Social Network
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Thursday, 6 December 2007
Social Network Portability
And now my hot interesting subject!!!
Portability with social networks, maybe the FOAF open standard (Friend-of-Friend).
This issues are quite new to me. But it seems quite interesting to use in my own context. Import a learner profile with is own hi5 network...
I have found an interesting workshop.. mediamatic about portability and also a blog which references these issues:
Google groups
Or even in microformats seems worth read it carefully.
Maybe tomorrow...
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Web 3.0
Go beyond Web 2.0!!
In a few years the participation paradigm that Web 2.0 lays on will give way to what Tim Berners Lee has already called GGG as to Giant Global Graph in his blog Tim's blog
But what we expect to be Web 3.0?
http://web3next.blogspot.com/
Well it is Semantic Web technology, starting with RDF OWL and SPARQL and giving more. Tim Berners Lee compares with what WWW was about giving information, and now is going to be about social. The data in a FOAF file can be read by other applications. Photo-sharing, travel sites, sites which accept your input because you are a part of the graph.
It is about connections and sharing ourselves rather our pages...
Monday, 15 October 2007
IADIS MCCSIS E-Learning
http://www.elearning-conf.org/
Amsterdam, Netherlands
22 - 25 July 2008
Call for papers
Submission Deadline: 25 February 2008
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