I’ve added Ellyssa Kroski‘s Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals to my Recommended Reading list. Even though it’s written for librarians, it’s a good introduction to web 2.0. She has chapters on the following:
- web 2.0
- blogs
- RSS and newsreaders
- wikis
- social bookmarking
- photo sharing
- social cataloging
- video sharing
- personalized start pages
- social networking software
- vertical search engines
- social news
- answers technology
- virtual worlds
- productivity tools
- podcasting
- mashups
I do have a couple of objections to her classifications: (1) She included Second Life in a book on “web 2.0.” To access Second Life, you have to download their software; it cannot be accessed on the web (i.e., by using a browser). Therefore, in my mind, it doesn’t belong in this book. (2) She included Ning in a chapter on “Mashups” when it clearly fits under social networks.
