Bookmarks for Web 2.0: Searching Innovations

Bookmarks for Web 2.0: Searching Innovations

The Meaning of Web 2.0

  • Library 2.0 - September 1, 2006 - Library Journal
    • www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6365200.html
    Important, readable article explaining a lot of what is behind 2.0, "library 2.0," and what many of the buzzwords mean.
  • Web 2.0: Where Will It Take Libraries? Into a New World of Librarianship
    • www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/3.htm
    Michael Stevens, library 2.0 champion, voices eloquent values and ways to think in order to embrace "library 2.0."
  • Riding the Waves of 2.0: More Than a Buzzword But Still Not Easily Defined (pdf)
    • www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Web_2.0.pdf
    From PEW Internet Project, a balanced, no-hype, maybe a little conservative view of 2.0 from a distance. Lots of food for thought. Published Oct, 2006, it needs to be put in context of what has happened since.

  • Library 2.0 Reading List on Squidoo
    • www.squidoo.com/library20/
    Fairly comprehensive reading list for for the ALA Library 2.0/Library Futures online course. Most of the major names and players, links to definitions, seminal writings and thoughts.
  • The Good, the Bad, and the "Web 2.0: - WSJ.com
    online.wsj.com/article/SB118461274162567845.html?mod=Technology
    Brilliant debate in the Wall Street Journal on Web 2.0 values and society. Andrew Keen, who wrote "The Cult of the Amateur," argues the web has become overwhelmed with useless noise. David Weinberger, author of "Everything is Miscellaneous," argues that Web 2.0 tools let users filter out irrelevant (or inaccurate) information. Longer, full-text of their conversation from WSJ here.

  • The Net Generation Strategic Investigation (video - requires sound and media player)
    mms://204.15.36.163/NGen
    Very informative interview of four young Net-Generation young people by Dan Tapscott, founder and CEO of New Paradigm: The Business Innovation Company. Wonderful to see the values and promise of youth today. Explains a lot of what is different because of the tools and trends behind Web 2.0. (For more depth, watch the E-learning Forum on Wikinomics. Click the button "VoD" to watch the video and follow the PowerPoint.)
  • Mashups & Remixes: API examples at ProgrammableWeb.com
    programmableweb.com/apis
    APIs (Application Program Interface) facilitate create inventions combining (mashing up) one or more parts of a web services with something else (most popular mashups). APIs are offered in many services from Google and Yahoo; also in YouTube, Flickr, Amazon, A9, and many more (list of over 450 available APIs). Some library catalogs have APIs. Overview of (and links to) instructions for using many APIs to make mashups. Some programming skill is helpful.

Tags, Tagging, and del.icio.us

  • Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging
    www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page5508.cfm
    Guidelines, synthesized from other articles, on do's and don'ts of tagging. Not the final word, but worth paying attention to.

  • The Best of del.icio.us
    • jamesmelzer.com/bearings/?p=68
    From the blog of an information architect, views and tips on how to tag effectively and organize tag names and bundles hierarchically in del.icio.us. Links to some del.icio.us accounts the considers will organized. Take a look at his own organization in del.icio.us/jamesmelzer.

Web Search Engine Innovations

  • Google (google.com) and Recent Google Offspring:
    • Google News Archive Search
      news.google.com/archivesearch
      Historical archive of news articles, some back to the 19th century. Can limit by time period or view as Timeline.
    • SearchMash
      searchmash.com
      Google experimental search with links to Wikipedia, Images, and other formats on the side. No ads.
    • Google Experimental Search (labs)
      www.google.com/experimental
      Screenshots and sample searches showing some of what Google is thinking of adding to its search results.
    • Google Finance
      finance.google.com
      Interactive, real-time. Less added value and instructional content than Yahoo Finance (below).
    • Google Earth
      earth.google.com
      Requires desktop download. Recent enhancements add features of Google Local/Maps and some wiki and photo additions. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.
    • Google Docs & Spreadsheets
      docs.google.com
      Create a free account (or use a gmail login) and create, share, collaborate, and publish spreadsheets and word processing docs. Take the tour.

  • Yahoo Search (search.yahoo.com) and Recent Yahoo Offspring:
    • Yahoo Answers
      answers.yahoo.com
      Searchable archive of thousands of answers from Yahoo's members. Not vetted. Evaluate for yourself.
    • Yahoo's Portal
      yahoo.com
      Hundreds of things to do, ways to share, shop, connect, communicate, and find stuff. Often the most popular webspace in the world. Complete list of Yahoo services.
    • Yahoo Finance
      finance.yahoo.com
      Some recent additions and enhancements. More real-time stock info. Lots of background that can help people learn about finance and investing.

    • Ask.com (www.ask.com) and Recent Ask Offspring:
      Three-panel results display, integrating search suggestions, links to info from media, dictionary, encyclopedia, videos, blogs, more. Same good Teoma technology ranking as before.

    • Ask.city
      city.ask.com (not ask.city.com)
      Local events, businesses, movies, and more, integrated with maps and directions.

  • "Social Search"
    • Sproose (sproose.com)
      • KnowledgeRank™ relies of searchers' individual votes for individual pages. Tags, communities, preferred pages on a topic available to subscribers. Not supposed to spam you.
    • Mahalo (mahalo.com)
      Human editors rank sites for the top 10,000 search terms. Selected volunteers, (paid), help Mahalo staff contribute and rank sites. Google search results supplement sites picked by Mahalo team.
    • New York Times article on social search engines, related to Google and other machiine-ranked search engines.

Customized, Vertical Search Engines

Blogs, Wikis, and RSS Feeds

  • Blog and Feed Search Engines
    You almost always get a mixture of blogs in feed search results. And so they are listed together here.
    • Google Blog Search
      blogsearch.google.com
      The most popular blog search engine, but not always the most useful.
      Advanced Search allows limiting by blog author, dates, blog title.
      Can also type the limiters inblogtitle: and inpostauthor: Click links in results to date limit and sort by date.
    • Technorati
      search.technorati.com
      At present, maybe the best results for blog searches.
      Enter search terms and select "a lot" of authority. These are the most linked to and most frequently updated.
    • Ask.com Blog & Feed Search
      ask.com/blogsearch
      Generally good search results, not overwhelming in quantity. Convenient tabs to view results as Blog Postings, Feeds or News feeds. "Top feeds" within results often worth looking at.
    • Bloglines Search
      bloglines.com in upper right corner of most pages
      Feed search matches words in titles of postings. Blog search matches words in blog texts.
    • Google Web Search (and other search engines)
      google.com (or other web search engines)
      If you include the word blog or use the limiter inurl:blog, you search text of the many blog postings mixed in with ordinary web pages. Popularity ranking often helps with finding.
    • LISZEN
      liszen.com
      A Google CSE of about 600 library and librarian blogs. A product of Library Zen which also has a blog and a wiki.
      Liszen Trends is real time, interactive discussion of many topics of interest to the library profession.

  • Finding Wikis
    • Google Web Search (and other search engines)
      google.com (or other web search engines)
      If you include the word wiki or use the limiter inurl:wiki, you search text of the many wikis mixed in with ordinary web pages. You may want to exclude the Wikipedia from results:  -wikipedia. Popularity ranking often helps with finding.
    • List of wikis in Wikipedia
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis
      An admittedly incomplete but large list. Useful categories to browse.
    • WikiIndex.org
      wikiindex.org
      A wiki that is a directory of wikis.
    • Wikia.com
      www.wikia.com
      A directory of wikis that is searchable and browsable by categories, language, and more.
    • Wikinside
      A Google CSE that searches text within about 3,000 wikis.

  • Examples of Wiki Sites Used in PowerPoint for this Class:
  • More about Wikis and Wiki Technology from Meredith Farkas

Major 2.0 Participation Sites

Keeping Up with 2.0

Web 2.0: Searching Innovations Spring-Summer 2007 - This material has been created by Joe Barker for the Infopeople Project [infopeople.org], supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Any use of this material should credit the author and funding source.