From QED

	Content creation should not be recondite. It should not be this bizarre arcana that only experts and gold-plated computer science gurus can do.
	-- Brendan Eich, inventor of Javascript, Innovators of the Net

Contents 1 Wikis and All That 1.1 Web 1.0 1.2 Web 2.0 1.3 Bookmarking 1.4 Blogs 1.5 Wikis 1.5.1 What is a wiki? 1.6 Second Life 2 QED 3 See also

Wikis and All That

http://alexa.com/

Web 1.0

http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0509/0509065.pdf

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. ...

According to Tim O'Reilly, "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform." [1]

List of Social Software^wp

• Blogs, Clipping, Collaboration, IM, Forums, IRC, eLearning, MPOG, Media Sharing, Media Cataloging, Social Annotation, Social Bookmarking, Social Cataloging, Social Citations, .... Virtual Worlds, Wikis
• Book reviews e.g. on Amazon.com

Genre (memorize)	Example (memorize)
Social bookmarking	Del.icio.us
Blogs	Princeton University Blog Service
Wikis	Wikipedia
Metaverse

• Readers can also be writers (user-generated content)
• Communities of engagement
  • "network effect"
• Prevalence of open-source software
  • rapid evolution to meet high expectations

wikipedia xanga del.icio.us secondlife princeton

Bookmarking

• http://del.icio.us
• http://etc.princeton.edu/links — pu.licio.us
• Firefox extension: del.icio.us Bookmarks
  • Access your bookmarks from any computer at any time

By the way: Comparison of browser synchronizers

E.g. Foxmarks

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Blogs

• Princeton University Blog Service
  • EQN
• Directory of Faculty Blogs

Wikis

 English Wikipedia, English Wiktionary

• Special:SiteMatrix

 Wikimedia Commons

• DjVu books

 PBwiki

• PBwiki in education
  • http://mappingglobalization.pbwiki.com [pw=v]

 "Every project has a wiki"

• NetWiki — network science
• WikiNet — articles about network-related concepts, measures, models, etc.
• R

 Princeton QED Service

What is a wiki?

• "Quick"
  • A quick way for one or more people to create and especially edit and maintain a web site
• Browser-centric
  • Browser is sufficient for viewing and editing "wiki-content"
  • (Philosophy) If plug-ins are required to view pages, they should be (are) free
• Management of conventional content
• "Open" or "Closed"?
  • read / create / update

• Wiki Software
  • Tracks updates
  • "What links here?"
  • WikiMatrix
  • Comparison of wiki software

Second Life

• You Only Live Twice

  Four Corners, ABC TV, 19 March 2007

  "Someone else is always there."

  "Experience the paranoid delusions of real patients."

  "... no STDs"

• Wikipedia^wp article on Second Life

QED

• The QED service at qed.princeton.edu is OIT-supported
• Currently it is an umbrella for projects and courses in a shared environment, e.g.
  • Mapping Globalization
  • Course:WRI168
• It is based on MediaWiki software with various extensions and enhancements, notably:
  • Google Maps
  • folders
  • flexible system for separately restricting read and write access
  • "Category Query" system
    • e.g. MG/Maps/CQ

• QED can also support "wikifarms"
  • e.g. qed.princeton.edu/PROJECTNAME/...
  • Drawbacks with current software:

• Help and Template namespaces must be separately maintained
• potential for login confusion (multiple "User:Tiger" web spaces)

• Extensibility architecture + Open software → innovation

See also

• Sites using MediaWiki