Social Media and Semantic Web Technology

Evolution of the Web

• Web 1.0 → Intitial Web

  • A Web of Pages

• Web 2.0 → Social Web

  • A Web of Applications

• Web 3.0→ Semantic Web

  • A Web of Data

    • It turns the Web into a giant readable database  

Emergence of the Social Web: (setting the stage for web 2.0)

• Application Programming Interface API

set of commands and programming standards used by developers to write applications that can commincate with other applications

Emergence of the Social Web: (setting the stage for web 2.0)

• Software Development Kit (SDK)

a collection of software tools used by developers for writing applications that run on a specific device or platform

• API is included—> a part of SDK

AJAX Technologoies and APIs:

AJAX Technologies: a term referring to a group of technologies and programming languages that make it possible for webpages to respond to users actions without requiring the entire page to RELOAD

• HyperText Markup Language (HTML)→ responsible for content

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)→ responsible for format 

• Javascript→ responsible for responsibility

Web 2.0: Markets are Conversations:

Cluetrain Manifesto: a revolutionary way of thinking about the Web

• understanding not only how people behave—> but also the way they think about things

Web 2.0: The power of the Groundswell

business priorities to leverage the groundswell:

• listening

• talking 

• energizing

• supporting

• embracing 

a social trend where people use tech to get the things they need for each other rather than from traditional institutions like corporations