I teach at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communicaation and Information at the Nanyang Technological University.

Web 1.0 VS Web 2.0

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Mashing up the Once and Future CMS

By Malcolm Brown

Web 1.0

Publishing

Content management, presentation

Individual, large-scale websites

Directories

User observe, “listen to” websites

Subscription services

They, the media (control held by a few)

Macro content

Authority is key

Versions and major revision

Creator defines content, design

Taxonomy

Value indifferent to amount of usage

Business model

In author we trust

Harnessing of authority’s intelligence

Best-sellers

Control

Example: Encyclopedia Britannica

Web 2.0

Participation

Content reappropriation (e.g., mashups)

Blogs, wikis

Tagging

User add value, co-create

Low-cost or free services

e, the medai (we create the media)

Micro-content

Collective decision-making

Continuous micro-enhancement

User defines content, design

Folksonomy

Value increases the more it is used

Blogosphere

In users we trust

Harnessing of collective intelligence

The “Long Tail”

Cooperation

Example: Wikipedia

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