Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers by Bradley L. Jones, Chapter 11

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Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Web-2-0-Heroes-Interviews-Influencers/dp/0470241993/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224483069&sr=1-5

Quote: “The Web is a very highly social utility. If we create more open systems, it will be even more social.”

Learning Expectations:

I expect to learn how Biz Stone used the Web 2.0 and made a lot of world changing things in the internet. Blogs are a whole new level of communication that they made possible for people to use world wide. I also expect to learn how Web 2.0 affected the way Twitter function to the people who use it everyday.

Review:

The 11^th Chapter of the Web 2.0 E-Book is about Biz Stone and how he operated Twitter, one of the most popular and most used micro-blogging website in the world. He co-created Twitter to let people all over the world experience blogging. He is giving them the chance to communicate and converse with other people for themselves. They can meet new friends, long lost friends, and maybe even the one who will let their heart beat faster than a running horse. Communication leads to people linking with each other and this link will give them a lot. The link that people get from others gives them the advantage in a whole wide array of things.

Communication and conversation are both essential for people all around the world. This gives them the insurance that there are people that they can talk to and trust at the same time. Every people need to talk because people are social beings. Being socially active gives people the urge to talk and share information to others. Parting knowledge to others is also a way for people to quench their urge to have a discussion to others. Communication also links people from one another. Having a strong link to people who can be trusted can go a long way. They can get competitive advantage from others and they can also gain mutual respect and connection to others. Having all of these things are somehow essential for a human being.

One way for people to communicate in the internet or the web is through blogging. The blog is a word made up by people who are fond in the internet. It is the contraction of the words ‘web’ and ‘log’, in other words, weB + LOG = BLOG. Blogs are websites that posts what people want to say. It can be personal, corporate, and many more. The usual blogs that can be seen are personal blogs.

People share information and knowledge through blogging. They share their experiences in life to see if there are other people who share the same experiences, small world isn’t it? People use blogging as a tool to let others know what they want and what they truly feel. People want to share their experiences because as we said earlier people are social beings. They want to express what they feel and what the things that are boggling their minds are.

Blogging can be done through a lot of channels. One of the most popular is through Wordpress but in terms of Micro-blogging, Twitter is the one of the best. Micro-blogging is the term used because the information shared by people is not that long compared to the traditional blog. People just share what they are thinking of for the instant or what they are planning to do in the coming moments. These are just minuscule information that people can use to form a conversation and continue it through talking.

The short messages that people post in micro-blogs are short but important information that they can use to form a conversation and keep it running as the time goes by. There are also a lot of other micro-blogging platforms that people can use other than Twitter, but Twitter is one of the most popular giving it an advantage compared to the other micro-blogging platforms. Using Twitter can help a lot of people to reconnect to their old buddies that they want to communicate and be with again. Links and relations to others are something that keeps people human.

People can also use Twitter without the internet or the web. It can be used offline too you know. People can integrate their cell phones and other mobile devices and use it to post their information in the internet. They can do micro-blogging while walking on the streets, having a break in the office, and other stuffs that people do in a daily basis.

Being open and transparent to others is also one of the reasons for the success of micro-blogging. People are opening up to others and tell them what they feel deep inside their hearts and minds. They are not holding back information to others because they have the sense of trust for the people who they are communicating with in the micro-blogs.

Lessons Learned:

I have learned how Biz Stone used the Web 2.0 to help change the world with the use of Twitter. It gave people the chance to send out and post blogs for other people to reply with. I have also learned how Twitter gave a lot of people the chance to strengthen their links and relationships with other people.