“This is a really great book if you're new to Web 2.0 or if you have dabbled but want to feel like an expert. For example, I have a delicious.com account, but reading about social bookmarking in general helped me become more familiar with the concept as well as discover some other sites people use for this purpose. The same can be said for many of the other chapters in this book, such as blogs, RSS, photo sharing, and mashups like chicagocrime.org, housingmaps.com, or Flickr's geotagging (matching a photo to a spot on the map where the picture was taken).
After reading this book, I feel like I could have an educated conversation about the many Web 2.0 tools that involve user-generated content and thrive on the interaction among those users. I did skim a few chapters (vertical search engines, answers technology, virtual worlds) near the middle-end of the book that I either felt I knew enough about to realize I wouldn't personally use them or just wasn't interested in.
Overall, this is an easy-to-read, no mumbo-jumbo book with informative, value-added screen shots. This book has given me the encouragement I need to use features of m yWeb 2.0 favs that I have been ignoring! I recommend this book to any Internet user who wants to feel more confident using these tools to work more effectively, as well as people who get paid to use and create these tools, such as librarians, journalists and web designers/programmers.”
MsWrobel wrote this review Tuesday, July 14 2009.
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