Chapter 1: Introduction to Web 2.0: Part A

Web 2.0 and Social Media for Business

Roger McHaney, Kansas State University

• Term coined during O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference in late 2004

• Includes applications that allow people to participate in information creation, digital resource sharing, Web page design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web

• Users interact in virtual communities • Examples include Facebook, YouTube,

LinkedIn, Flickr, WordPress, Wikimedia, and Blogger

Introduction to Web 2.0

• Internet opened world to vast possibilities of communication, information creation, data sharing and computing power

• Humble beginnings traced to four networked host computers called ARPANET in 1969

• Expectations for more than 22 billion online devices by 2020

• A vast computer network of numerous smaller, interconnected computer networks

Internet

This network of networks establishes a global data communications system using standards or protocols

Internet

• Web pages are text-based documents following specifications known as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

• Web pages that conform to standards can be viewed as developer intended on compliant browsers and devices

• Web pages distributed and accessed using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

• Browser is client and requests resource user wishes to view

• Pages stored on networked computers running server software to respond to client requests

WWW

Collection of interconnected documents organized into human-readable computer screens called Web pages

WWW

Computers hosting Web sites function as Web servers

Transmission of requested Web pages can use encryption in the form of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)

1) Client submits HTTP request 2) Server responds by searching through stored content 3) Server returns a response message which generally contains requested content

How Web Servers Work

Web 2.0 can be viewed as four major, interrelated components:

(1) Social media(2) Content sharing(3) Filtering and

recommendations (4) Web applications

Web 2.0 Defined

Professor Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School defines Web 2.0 as:

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Technology Evolution Creating Environment for Web 2.0

Social media facilitates social networking. People are profoundly communal and need to interact with voice, gestures, and written language

Social Media

Includes:

• Online social networks• instant messaging (IM) and

texting• Audio and video

conferencing • Metaverses and virtual

worlds• MMORPGs (Massively

Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games)

Social Media

Social media facilitates social networking. People are profoundly communal and need to interact with voice, gestures, and written language

Example Tools:

• Microblogs• Podcasts• Blogs• Wikis

Social Media Tools

Takes common services used for a long time---newspapers, magazines, radio, record albums, telephones, and television---and recreates these in digital form with added benefit: layer of social interaction

Example Business Podcasts

Example Microblog (Twitter Feed)

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