1. Horizons
(Or how everything you've been told,
about web 2.0 fits together...)
Ian Forrester – Senior Producer for BBC Backstage

2. Overview
The challenge facing the BBC
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The people formally known as our audience
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What changed?
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Current state of the internet
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What's hot on the Horizon?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/adammcgrath/429230598/

3. “Get web savvy or we die...”

4. On-line, but not part of the net

5. Many alternatives to our content

6. The socially participatory web
Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media
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in 2004, refers to a perceived or proposed
second generation of Web-based services
such as social networking sites, wikis,
communication tools, and folksonomies that
emphasize online collaboration and sharing
among users.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/315385916/

7. Where's our audience?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adammcgrath/429230598/

8. The people formally known,
as our audience
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/646403383/

9. Have better tools that us
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericrice/1695411823/

10. Have more important things to do
http://www.flickr.com/photos/noneck/352489401/

11. Want to tell their own story
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13543974@N08/1447120293/

12. Expect participation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iconolith/145162224/

13. Prefer a human tone
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jazzylemon/1447957159/

14. Expect to time-shift everything
http://www.flickr.com/photos/manu_le_manu/235186276/

15. Expect sharing to be implicit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimax/319342240/

16. Take note of what we do

17. Will tell us, if we are wrong
http://www.flickr.com/photos/problog/70829300/

18. Are not scared to explore beyond
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamat/204542767/

19. Have great distribution methods
http://www.flickr.com/photos/technopops/11749497

20. See content as never finished
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peweck/423497311/

21. What changed?
Architecture of participation
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Collaboration
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Collective intelligence
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Social
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Web as a platform
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined
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The Long tail
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Everything is miscellaneous
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mumbleyjoe/1565110782/

22. Architecture of participation

23. Architecture of participation
Digg.com
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Alternative Reality Gaming
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24. Collaboration

25. Collaboration
Wikipedia.org
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Google Spreadsheets
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Wiki's
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Creative Commons ShareAlike licence
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26. Collective intelligence

27. Collective intelligence
Del.ico.us
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Wikipedia.org
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Amazon Mechanical Turk
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Not Groupthink
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Free / Open Source Software
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28. Social
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kino-eye/402560705/

29. Social
Facebook / MySpace
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Linkedin.com / Dopplr.com
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Google OpenSocial
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Twitter / Jaiku
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BarCamp's / Meetup's
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Upcoming.org
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Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/kino-eye/402560705/

30. Web as a Platform

31. Web as a Platform
API's (xml, json, php arrays, swx)
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RSS / Atom feeds
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Adobe Air / XUL platform / Google Gears
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OpenID / Oauth
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Microformats
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32. Small Pieces Loosely Joined
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superciliousness/1922398858/

33. Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Mash-up culture
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APIs / WebServices
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Google OpenSocial
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Amazon WebServices (ec2, s3, etc)
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Peer 2 Peer services
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OpenID / OAuth
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/superciliousness/1922398858/

34. The Long Tail

35. The Long Tail
Amazon.com
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Netflix.com / Lovefilm.co.uk
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The Web
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YouTube
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Blogs
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Podcasts
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36. Everything is Miscellaneous
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/1306995840

37. Everything is Miscellaneous
Amazon.com
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Last.FM / Musicbrainz
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Folksonomies
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Chaos / Disorder
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Messiness as Virtue
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Web of Data
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Preference
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/1306995840

38. Current state of the net
Web of Data
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Semantic Web
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Open APIs
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Social Media
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Social Networking
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Life Streaming
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Perma-linked Media
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/oberazzi/1306995840/

39. Web of data

40. Semantic Web
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/639163558

41. Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
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42. Open API's

43. Social Media
http://www.flickr.com/photos/noodlepie/341534139

44. Social networking

45. Current state of social networking

46. Life streaming and flow apps

47. Perma-linked Media

48. What's hot on the Horizon?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adammcgrath/429230598/

49. Just on the horizon
Data Portability
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Attention and Presence Management
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User-Centric Identity Management
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Real-Time Communication
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Full-text / Richer RSS Feeds
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More Pipes and Flow Applications
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Peer 2 Peer mixed with Social Tools
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User generated content into indigenous content?
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/molamoni/482355662/

50. Just beyond the horizon
Open Mobile Services (android, openmoko, etc)
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Hybrid (web/net) and Streaming Applications
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Standard Web Stack (xhtml+css+js+dom+xbl+svg)
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Scalable Real-Time Communication via XMPP
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Ubiquitous Connectivity (ultrawideband, w-usb)
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Network Connected Objects (Smart Objects)
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Networked Sensors
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APIs in to Smart Objects
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogseat/436402348/

51. Thank you, any questions?
Ian Forrester - ian.forrester@bbc.co.uk
Senior Producer at BBC Backstage
Presentation : CC BY-NC-SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogseat/436402348/