My journey through Web 2.0 Adventure!!!

Six weeks!!! That was super fast. I am still feeling I didn't have enough of this adventure. There were easy time and difficult time. It was like riding a roller coaster through the journey.

This is my first time using Google Blogger. I used to blog on MSN Live Spaces. That was quite easy to use with some pre-set application. I didn't explore too much of my Live Space because my PC takes ages to apply/embed new application into the life space.

Google Blogger impressed me a lot. The page uploading is faster than my Live Space. Plus, it has more gadget options provided, even with another supplimentary site, the Blogger Buster. Blogger Buster allows me to find new templates and other gadget applications that I want to embed into my blog. It was contributed by most Blogger users.

Back to my rollercoaster story. The fun part that I like most was exploring You Tube and SlideShare. I was surprised to find out that YouTube and SlideShares are good resources for teaching information literacy. They can be used in creating informative library blogs, or library websites, or even information literacy tutorial class, but have to use under Creative Common License. Oh Yes!! Talking about Creative Common License, it is another big discovery for me. I went to explore its web site and try to understand different categories of license listed in there. It helps me to better understand the copyright issue in the open net environment.

The social bookmarking, mashup and wikipedia editing gave me a huge headache. It is easy to contribute and make changes in the Australian Newspapers collaboration site, but not so in the actual wikipedia site. I guess the actual wikipedia site is governed by strict rules and its too complicatate for me to do editing at this stage. But, from my other course, I have the opportunity to use PbWikis just 2 weeks after the wikipedia adventure, and I have done some editing in that PbWiki for our group assignment.

I was overwhelmed with the information I encountered in social bookmarking and mashup. Most of the time, I was thinking "The site seems interesting, do I really need this?" "Am I taking too much time to learn a new application and manage it?" For example: I have installed the Diigo tool bar in my PC, I never have the time to learn, dig into it, explore all its applications and use them.

Mashup is terribly difficult, and seriously I haven't fully understood the principal behind it. I think if I know API, I can understand that better. But point is, I don't know API.

In conclusion, after 6 weeks, I should say my adventure through web 2.0 was a success. I have learned many new applications, and pushed my embedding skills to higher level. I wish to learn how to embed podcasting application, and embedding movies, but I think that probably be too difficult to manage within one week. I heard of this Adobe Captivate, it can capture the screen shots and used as a tool to design and develop web-based tutorial classes for students. But it is very expensive. I wonder, is there any similar version of this exists in the web and hosted by some web developers? I guess to upload podcast and vimeo will be my next target of learning in web 2.0.

Is this an end? No!! This is just the beginning of my journey into this big Machine (internet). And I really appreciate Doc Man in creating this starting point for me.

Stay tuned!! I won't stop blogging on my discovery on web 2.0 and perhaps web 3.0 or even semantic web.

Something about Mashup

Mashup is difficult!!! Because I don't know how API works..
But I have found one interesting slideshare about it..
I will embed it here.. very informative.. And I wish I have more time to dig into every sites recommended here.

Sticking between: mashup in libraries

View more presentations from bonaria.

This slideshare is prepared by Bonaria, used here under Creative Common License.

My first Yahoo Pipe!!

Hooray!! Have a try on constructing my own pipes using Yahoo Pipes, and success!!!! Yahoo Pipes is an easy tool to do some mashups on content around the web, especially for person like me who do not have any knowledge and training in API. It took me half a day to figure it up. I watched the "How to Build a Pipe in Just a Few Minutes" video from Yahoo Pipes homepage.

Learn How to Build a Pipe in Just a Few Minutes @ Yahoo! Video

Then, I started to build my first ever pipe.. (Excited!! and Scary!!!)

1. I need an Yahoo account in order to sign into Yahoo Pipe

2. Watch the above mentioned video.

3. Decide my Pipe's title: Latest Social Media News

4. Browse some social media sites which contain latest news or feeds in this area.

5. Back to my Yahoo Pipe page. Click "Create a Pipe"

6. Start building.. Drag a "module" I want to use from the "source" (tools on left column). I chose the "Fetch Site Feed" and add the URLs of the social media sites that I want to include. See diagram below.



7. Next, I filtered the feeds with some limitation. Link all the boxes together. The following diagram shows the Filter box and limitation rules that I set.



8. Type my pipe title, hit the "Save" button, then click the "Run my pipe".

9. Here is how it looks like in my Yahoo Pipes home page. It lists news about the latest social media sites.



10. I can add this list to My Yahoo, My Google, or get it as RSS, JSON, results by emails or phone. I can even embed it into Blogger, TypePad, Wordpress or iGoogle.



I chose the Blogger Badge because I want to see how it looks in my blogspot.

11. Done. Please refer to my homepage left column under my Twitter updates, there is a box showing the latest social media news.

Well, this is my first "kindergarten" level of piping or mashup skill.. I will dig more in the future. Very Interesting!!! I feel soooooooooooo satisfied after I managed to do this.. ^_^!! haha!! With this skill, I can make my own homepage with mashups content targeted to my own information needs.