Unleashing Web 2.0: From Concepts to Creativity

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
• Published by: Morgan Kaufmann July 27, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0123740347
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0123740342
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.7 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Reader Reviews
I borrowed this book from someone who knows a great deal about web directions, and I found it to be very very good. Although the authors do not reflect the tsunamis being created by Doug Englebart (Open hypertextdocument system or OHS) and Pierre Levy (Information Economy Meta Language or IEML), this is a very elegantly organized and presented book. It forced me to question my here-to-fore blind expectations with respect to the Semantic Web where in practice the theory of seamless integration has not been realized. I was especially taken with the author's conclusion that we must continue to develop applications for smallish communities of practice where the human brain continues to be the primary searcher, sorter, and valuation or linkage agent. Jim Bamford's book on the National Security Agency (NSA), Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, concludes that one day NSA may--after spending hundreds of billions more of our hard-earned wages, create the ultimate computer--one weighing very little, running on virtually no energy, and able to do petaflop calculations per second: THE HUMAN BRAIN. I am among a handful of co-founders of the Earth Intelligence Network, and I will conclude this very favorable review with my opinion: the World Brain is emergent, and it is the end-users, as the co-authorrs of this book conclude, that will continue to be the primary content creators, content sharers, and content valuators. As soon as China and India figure out they can create infinite wealth by handing out free cells phones and offering their respective 1.5 billion poor free information and education "one cell call at a time," it will be game over for both American and European digital ambitions. Machine learning has been over-hyped since the 1980's, and while I respect the computational mathematics being pioneered by Google, and various deep web or meta web endeavors, the reality is that search today stinks, yielding less than 2% of relevant information. I don't expect that to be resolved anytime soon. What I *do* expect is for humans empowered by relatively simple tools, to figure out how to do a national referendum from neighbood to nation=state, in 24 hours, and how to mobilize a public cabinet that posts a sensible slate of policies backed up by a balanced budget. See also: Mobilizing Generation 2.0: A Practical Guide to Using Web2.0 Technologies to Recruit, Organize and Engage Youth Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace (Helix Books) Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace Comment | | (Report this)