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Web 2.0 Publishing Trends: Embracing Open Data for Innovative Applications

Explore the impact of Web 2.0 on data publishing, business trends, and technology advancements, emphasizing the importance of open data and user engagement for creating tailored applications.

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Web 2.0 Publishing Trends: Embracing Open Data for Innovative Applications

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  1. Data Publishing on Web 2.0 Leigh Dodds, Chief Technology Officer, Ingenta ldodds@ingenta.com 1st February 2007

  2. Social Trends • Spread of Broadband • Increasingly ubiquitous connections • A generation of “web natives” • Living on the web • Social networking; blogging; instant messenger • Create, not just consume • Some hard lessons about data ownership • Don’t steal my data; don’t lock me in

  3. Business Trends • Exploit the Long Tail • At internet scale even niche communities are very large • “We sold more books today that we didn't sell at all yesterday, than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday.” • Amazon employee quoted on Wikipedia • Success of web services • No need to own the user interface. It's your data that they want • Users can enrich your data • “Harnessing collective intelligence of users” • Review and Recommend; Social Bookmarking; Folksonomies

  4. Technology Trends • The Power of XML • Easier to exchange and process application independent data • Agile Engineering • Incrementally developer your product; short release cycles • Continually adapt to user needs • “The Perpetual Beta” • Maturation of the browser • AJAX, CSS, Javascript, Plugins • Browser as platform, not just document viewer

  5. Publishing on Web 2.0

  6. Web 2.0 Features • RSS Feeds • Social Bookmarking (“Folksonomies”) • Tagging and Categorization • Rating & Recommendations • Blogging • Comments and Discussions • Rich User Interfaces (“AJAX”) • Close to desktop systems • Web Services

  7. Web Services & Open Data • Publish Raw Data not (just) pages • Using “web native” formats like XML, not Excel or PDF • 328 Web services listed on ProgrammableWeb.com • Photo sharing; calendars; messaging; blogging • File storage; ecommerce; advertising; search • “Mashups” • Remixing Data to Create New Applications

  8. Example Mashups

  9. Lightweight Data Publishing

  10. A YouTube For Data?

  11. Summing Up

  12. Summing Up • Web 2.0 more than just hype • Culmination of a number of web trends • Importance of Open Data • Allows communities to assemble unique tailored applications • Importance of Users • Seek and create network effects • Browser as Application Platform • Huge potential for new kinds of web applications

  13. Practical Advice • Embrace Deep Linking • Clean, Reliable URLs • Avoid An Arms Race • Embrace Open Data

  14. Thank You

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