Online Social

Wiki’s A online social

presentation

Presented byBeth O` Regan

What's it all about!

How Online Social Networks have impacted on the Internet of today.

• What are the advantages and disadvantages in relation to a form of communication and information technology?

• Wiki`s history ?

• How it works ?

A brief history

“1978: The First Computer Bulletin Board System, CBBS, Goes Online

Ward Christensen and Randy Suess develop the Computerized Bulletin Board System (CBBS) in Chicago. Opened to the public the following year, it is the first electronic message-posting network.

Christensen, a physicist by education and a mainframe programmer by profession, was an electronics hobbyist in his spare time. By the late 1970s he had become expert at programming computers to transfer files from one machine to another via modems and telephone line” (tmg-emedia, inc 1999-2007).

How Online Social Networks have impacted on the Internet of today.

• From time began communication has been the key factor in any transaction or interaction.

• Your not alone-has brother barriers of communication down

• At a finger tip away knowledge and information can be used

• Dictionaries and tutorials make information understandable so its worldwide

• Creative-made people creative

• IP address space in depletion“while bulletin boards will not solve the internet's problems (nor

vice versa), the convergence of the internet and bulletin board technology may offer at least metrical relief in several areas” (Bern & Aboba 1993).

Advantages

• Interesting facts-learning new facts shared by peoples opinion.

• Reliability-more reliable then picking a news paper up.

• Cost alternative-cheap alternative then paying for a newspaper.

• Advances in Security-information on that is posted and can only be got by a password.

Benefits

• Its benefits“it wasn't feasible to converse an all-hands

meeting, the company was in a hurry”(Kimball &Rheingold 2000)

Speed-information published a faster rateInformation that is not censored for

newspapersOpen discussion-opinions –original

opinions <the truth>.

Disadvantages

• Security-harder to get information of blogs-instead registering passwords and user name just to read information

• Security –expensive• Broadcasted-information broadcasted with

unsuitable photos. for example bebo finessed.• Follow terms and conditions- always read the

small print• Nowadays more laws and policies when sharing

information

Security

• “what dangers are there in newsgroup and discussion areas?”

• “there a lot of problems you might come across when participating in public discussions everything form getting your name on spam lists being able to put together a profile of your interests with only a few mouse-clicks” (Gralla 1999, p.193).

List of social networking websites From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

43 Things Tagging 627,000[1] Open

Advogato Free Software and Open Source developers 11,000[2] Open

aSmallWorld European jet set and social elite 150,000[3] Invite-only

Amiworthit Mutually good-looking students Hundreds[4] Open to students but approval based

BlackPlanet.com African-Americans 16,000,000[5] Open

Bebo Schools and colleges 22,000,000[6] Open

Blue Dot Link sharing 80,000[7] Open

Broadcaster Video sharing and webcam chat 26,000,000[8] Open

Blurty Blogs, based on LiveJournal 947,169[9] Open

Bolt General (music and video) 4,000,000[10] Open

CarDomain Car enthusiasts 1,600,000[11] Open

Care2 Green living and activism 6,900,000[12] Open

Classmates.com School, college, work and the military 40,000,000[13] Open

Consumating "Consumeetings" 21,000[14] Open

Cyworld Young South Koreans 15,000,000[15] Open

Dandelife Collective narratives or "shared biographies" Unknown Open

DeadJournal "Dark" blogs, based on LiveJournal 490,310[16] By invite or payment (OpenID)

Name description user count Registration

Dodgeball.com Mobile location-based service, owned by Google Unknown[17] Open

DontStayIn Clubbing (primarily UK) 235,000+[18] Open

Doostang Careers 53,000[19] Invite-only

Ecademy Business 100,000[20] Open

eSPIN General 3,800,000[21] Open

Facebook College/High School students 16,000,000[22] Open

Facebox European young adults (14-24) 14,000,000[23] Open

Faceparty British teens and 20-somethings 5,900,000[24] Open

Flirtomatic Flirting/Dating 265,000[25] Open to people 18 and older.

Flickr Photo sharing 4,000,000[26] Open (Yahoo! login)

Fotki Photo sharing 1,000,000[27] Open

Friends Reunited School, college, work, sport and streets 12,000,000[28] Open

Friendster General 29,100,000[29] Open

Frühstückstreff General 10,100[30] Open

Gaia Online Anime and Games 5,000,000[31] Open

Gazzag General Unknown Open

GoPets Virtual pets 400,000[32] OpenGraduates.com School, college, and work 650,000[33] Open

GreatestJournal Blogs, based on LiveJournal 1,514,865[34] Open

Grono.net Poland 830,000[35] Invite-only

Hi5 General Unknown Open

Hyves General; focus on students and Dutch speakers 2,311,790[36] Open

imeem Instant messaging Unknown[37] Open

IMVU 3D chat software 1,000,000[38] Open

IRC-Galleria Finland 400,000[39] Open

iWiW Hungary 1,500,000[40] Invite only

Joga Bonito Football (soccer) Unknown Open

Last.fm Music 15,000,000[41] Open

LinkedIn Business 8,500,000[42] Open

LiveJournal Blogging 10,921,263[43] Open (OpenID)

LunarStorm Sweden 1,200,000[44] Open

MEETin General 67,000[45] Open

MiGente.com Latinos 3,600,000[46] Open

Mixi Japan 8,000,000[47] Invite-only

MOG Music Unknown Open

Multiply "Real world" relationships 3,000,000[48] Open

myGamma Cell phones 1,510,000[49] Open

MySpace General 162,400,000[50] Open

myYearbook General 950,000[51] Open

Nexopia Canada 989,000[52] Open

orkut Owned by Google 46,423,762[53] Open (Google login)

Passado General 4,700,000[54] Open

Phrasebase Foreign Languages (education) 100,000[55] Open

Piczo Teenagers, Canadians, photo sharing 10,000,000[56] Open

Playahead Swedish teenagers 530,000[57] Open

ProfileHeaven British teens 100,000[58] Open

RateItAll Consumer ratings + social networking 900,000[59] Open

Reunion.com Locating friends and family 25,000,000[60] Open

Ruckus Music 400,000[61] College students only

Ryze Business 250,000[62] Open

Sconex American high schools 500,000[63] Open

Sportsvite Recreational Sports 18,000[64] Open

StudivzUniversity students, mostly in the German-speaking countries

1,000,000 Open

Stumbleupon Websurfing 1,200,000[65] Open

TagWorld General (tagging) 1,850,692[66] Open

TakingITGlobal Social action 116,000[67] Open

The Student Center Teens and colleges 800,000[68] Open

Threadless Custom T-shirts 364,474 Open

Travellerspoint Travel 90,000[69] Open

Tribe General 602,876[70] Open

TwitterUpdate friends with your status through SMS, IM, web interfaces

Unknown Open

Vampire Freaks Gothic industrial culture 766,000[71] Open

VietSpace Vietnamese 20,000[72] Open

Vox Blogging Unknown Open

WAYN Travel & Lifestyle 7,000,000[73] Open to people 18 and older

WebBiographies Genealogy & Biography Unknown[74] Open

Windows Live Spaces Blogging (formerly MSN Spaces) 30,000,000[75] Open (Windows Live ID)

Xanga Blogs and "metro" areas 40,000,000[76] Open

XING Business 1,000,000[77] Open

Xuqa Colleges 1,000,000[78] Open

Yahoo! 360° Linked to Yahoo! IDs 4,700,000[79] Open to people 18 and older(Yahoo! login)

Yelp United States adults Unknown Open

Zaadz Social consciousness 36,467[80] Open

Wiki`s start

• wiki is a collaborate website (created since 2001)

• Bandwidth and server donated by Wales.• Combined encyclopedia  ~Et voilà

(www.wikipedia.org)• Wikipedia-a host of information• Information on every sort of topics• Now in several languages –a global virtual

book of information

Host of information

• Explanation- a detailed explanation of a certain topic.

• Information on a global bases- information shared without going abroad to find it

• Wiki-a brand reliable name know for facts and equations

• “A wiki is software that allows users to easily create, edit, and link pages together. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites” (wikipedia 2007).

• information is still gathered and updated every second.

• Not only information given but an option to post and voice your opinion and facts on a topic

• Free information without looking up countless of books

• Discussion groups open for a use full resources for projects and essays.

Thank you for listening to my presentation

References

Bern & Aboba 1993, The online user’s encyclopedia. Bulletin boards and beyond , Addison Wesley, America.

Gralla, P 1999, The complete idiot’s guide to protecting yourself online, Que Corporation, America.

Kimball, L & Rheingold, H 2000, How online social network benefit organizations, Rheingold Associates. Available from :< http://www.Rheingold.com/Asociates7/onlinenetworks > [1st march 2008].

Tmg-emedia Inc 2007, Chapter 3 What Does a Network Do? 1970 - 1978, tmg-emedia inc. Available from :< http://www.historyoftheinternet.com/chap3.html18 > [8th march 2008].

ReferencesWikipedia 2008, Wiki, Wikipeda. Available from :

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki> [2nd of March 2008]

Wikipedia 2008, Internet security, Wikipedia. Available from :< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_security> [3rd of March 2008]

Wikipedia 2008, Choice of language, Wikipedia. Available from :<

http://www.wikipedia.org/[4th of March 2008]

Wikipedia 2008, List of social networking websites, Wikipedia. Available from :< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites> [5th of March 2008]