MacWorld Web 2.0 Presentation

The Web 2.0 video presented the latest tools and technologies that teachers, students, and everyone and anyone could use to collaborate and learn on the web.
The presenter listed several open source resources that will assist in getting the most out of the Web 2.0 experience. He also cited and explained some very interesting facts about the types of viewers, critics, and contributors of this web era. For example the age range of most people contributing content to the web and critiquing information are young; between the ages of 12 and 26 and the age range of people just viewing content on the web are of an older age.
Of the plethora of resources presented I found a majority of them to be helpful and interesting and a handful of them interesting enough to explore further into and use in the future.
These tools and resources are:

• marumushi.com -- a mash-up platform that allows you to combine several of the same types of sites and information in the same easy to access platform. The example the presenter used was news from a variety of different websites (Google, yahoo, CNN) and mashing them together so that the viewer can access all information easily and distinguish what news source is most appealing.

• ePortfolios -- a site that allows users to contribute content to be analyzed and critiqued by others through a medium of productive collaboration.

• FeedBurner -- a site just purchased by Google in which users can subscribe the URL to their website, blog, or wiki and receive advertisement in exchange.

• McGraw Hill website -- an interactive learning site in which teachers and students can collaborate and learn together in fun and interactive ways. Two of the most interesting tools on the McGraw Hill website are "Meet the Authors" and "Poetry Mosaic", platforms in which one can learn about different authors through a variety of mediums and create and learn about poetry.

• ThinkVitamin -- a website that keeps web professionals and students updated on current web and digital design technologies, tools, resources, and platforms through AJAX, a tool that turns websites into web applications. Job postings by location and category are also available through this website which helps people in technical and design fields tap into the hidden job market.

There are so many more resources that the presenter brought to light that I want to research further and apply to my everyday learning and collaborating applications.

Extra Notes:
packaderm.com (open source web applications)
RSS (Real Simple Syndication) - family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content. XML based format for content distribution.