to all my students or to those who deal with web – an old (Sept 2005), but vary important article of Tim O’Raily on Web 2.0 – main differences in between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, definitions, key lessons
“The Internet is now the most popular source of news after TV”
“In 2008, 40% of the respondents said they got most of their national and international news from the Internet, versus 35% for newspapers”
Business Week announced the 25 most influential people on the Web
Among them we see people from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Mitchem Baker from Mozilla Foundation (Firefox, 4 years later has already about 20%!), Web 2.0 poeple, Apple, etc … Internesting, yes. More details – follow this link
“American youth may appear to be up to their eyeballs in new technology, but in terms of Internet access they are surpassed by 12- to 14-year-olds in Britain, Israel, the Czech Republic, Macao and Canada, according to a new report by the Center for the Digital Future. Only 88% of that age group in the U.S. accesses the Internet, compared to 100% in the U.K. and 98% of Israelis, the report found.”
how about Bulgarian kids? no exact data, but for age 15-19 – 70% are online, which is OK, compared with 33% overall penetration
for a few days I am at Glasgow to work on a European project on web sites evaluation and science and Internet
we come from 7 European countries and everyone deal with science, University and Internet
and it is so so hard to understand each other, to know everyone understand the same under the same word
we talk about “websites” and what is website, should be a blog be considered as website, is a portal site website, is an online tv website? … hard.