I have attached a table from Trinder et.al. (2008) on typology of web 2.0 technologies.
Are there others which are not in this table?
One of the points made by Trinder et.al. is that students (and teachers) have a lot of expertise in using these technologies for social networking, or buying and selling, but are inexperienced in applying them to learning/academic contexts.
What do others think?
Kimberly
ooo - he lists blikis - great minds think alike cos I started calling our blogs in the wiki blikis a couple of years back!

Where would he locate things like uTube?
I would distinguish between what I call Open Virtual Worlds (OVRs) like Second Life and other multi-user virtual worlds (like World of Warcraft) which for the sake of simplicity we might call Closed Virtual Worlds (CVRs) or more accurately Restricted Virtual Worlds (RVRs) - there are two important distinctions it seems to me to be made between OVRs and RVRs:
- RVRs generally have goals/missions - you know what a success state is and you can see what progression through the 'game' would look like (often quite explicitly though moving up levels). OVRs have no explicit/inbuilt purpose - like real life they are pointless until you (or someone else) overlays a purpose on them. So RVRs are games whereas OVRs are not (though of course you can behave in both environments in ways which undermine the designers intentions!)
- RVRs are restricted in the sense that everything you can create is pre-scripted - you are restricted in the things that you can create and indeed do within the environment. OVRs are open in the sense that these restrictions do not apply - you can use the building and scripting tools provided to do anything you wish (within the constraints of your own expertise in using the tools and the limitations of the tools themselves).
Where would things like uTube go?
Where would things like Google Docs go?
Would Flashmeeting or Skype fit into the definition of Web 2.0?
It is interesting that his examples don't include FaceBook.
Where would Amazon fit?
Hmm - lots of questions ...
Maybe we should create
a page in the wiki with an alternative (extended) classification ... (sorry I couldn't resist)
