Serendipity

On my blog-round today I read this article. Very interesting. I have often read about Lifehacker, no. 5 on the list, but have never gone there. Today was the day and my eye immediately fastened on this article, which in turn of course led to this article. And naturally I had to read the other list as well. I can honestly say that some of those phrases I haven't used. But most of them I have. However, not "talk the talk, walk the walk". That really is an awful expression!

I promise to try and avoid each and every one of them in my paper. What about you?

Ivanessa's suggestions

My first contact with Web 2.0 was six years ago, with a site almost like Facebook, very known in Portugal, called Hi5. It's a social network, where everyone shares photos, comments and other personal information. Back then, I had no notion of what Web 2.0 was, and Hi5 was mostly used to keep in touch with friends all over the country.
As my contact with the Internet began to increase, I became aware of many other community websites for other purposes. I still didn't know what Web 2.0 was, yet it was clear to me that these new paradigms of community and sharing were transforming the way people interacted with the Web and eachother. I was soon introduced to Last.FM and shared a profile with a group of friends, which enabled me to discover lots of new music i was unaware of.

I still remember the time when the vast majority of us did not know Wikipedia. It was a major revolution in the way we students thought about writing essays and doing our homework. While I never contributed any article, Wikipedia is often the starting point for most of my work. Other wiki software (such as TWiki) is used in some of the courses in my school for students to submit their work, and enables us to work together as a group, using all the tools for collaborative writing it provides.

Although I don't write a blog, i regularly keep in touch with my friends by reading their blogs, especially after having come to Denmark.
I also became addicted to Facebook, which event planning feature allows me to arrange nights out with my friends :) The iRead feature is a very nice addition, through which i can know what books my friends have read and share suggestions (almost like LibraryThing).
Google Reader is another application of Web 2.0 that i'm addicted to. I can concentrate all my news sources in one place, and share them with my friends.
I also use Youtube to watch funny videos and music videos my friends share with me.

Even though I don't use them, I know many other examples of Web 2.0 applications, such as Flickr, used to share photos; Delicious is a social bookmarking tool, which allows people to keep their bookmarks online, accesible from anywhere, and share links; Twitter is a microblogging tool, which can be used for reporting current actions and events, or as a mass SMS sender.

I am not even near a power Interner user, but I hope that I may have contributed a little to this blog :)