#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.