Thursday, November 1, 2007

#19 Discovering Web 2.0 tools

The categories in the SEOmoz's Web 2.0 awards 2007 reflect the topics we have been investigating in Library 2.0 with many of the tools we have played with appearing in the winners' list. The categories also demonstrate the extent to which sharing and creation of information has quickly become an accepted part of the Internet.






  • *Blog guides
  • *Bookmarking
  • *Books
  • Business
  • City guides &reviews
  • Classifieds & directories
  • *Collaborative writing & word processing
  • Communication
  • Content aggregation & management
  • Digital storage & remote access
  • Events
  • Feed management
  • Fun stuff
  • Games
  • Health
  • *Hosted wikis
  • Lists & polls
  • Mapping
  • Marketing
  • *Mashups
  • Mobile technology


  • Music
  • Online desktop
  • *Organisation
  • Philanthropy
  • *Photos & digital images
  • *Podcast services
  • Professional networking
  • Questions & advice
  • Real estate
  • Retail
  • *Search
  • Social networking
  • Social news
  • *Social tagging
  • Start pages
  • Travel
  • *Video
  • Visual arts
  • Web development & design
  • *Widgets


For this exercise I explored Google Maps which would be a useful tool for creating maps for a heritage walk for example. The path taken can be indicated on the walk, specific locations noted etc. So far I have only gone as far as locating the area of the map I am interested in and had a look at the YouTube guides provided on the Google Map site. Next step will be to add the route etc - when time permits during the next few days.

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