Well, I'm not sure I know exactly what Web 2.0 is. From what I've read it has to do with social, collaborative, and group web services. Using this definition I would say I have been using the following:
Sharepoint (discussions and file sharing used at work)
Wikipedia (group encyclopedia)
PHPBB (discussion lists)
Coranto (and old package for Blogging)
LinkedIn (social networking)
and recently
Pandora (music channel sharing)
Since this class started I've been "playing" with the following:
Blogger (blogging)
Twitter (micro blogging)
PageFlakes (sharing of custom web pages)
Second Life (virtual world)
Flickr (photo sharing)
One of the new sites I'm having fun playing with is Pageflakes. You tile "flakes" onto the page. There are thousands of flakes available. Most of these flakes are blogs and news feeds, but there are flakes for email, weather, stock tracking, etc. Follow the link under my links to see what an amateur can do.
I've been kinda pondering the playlist sharing sites. I like the auto-generated playlist on pandora (under my links), but I'm not sure anyone would be interested in listening to my channel. I've also been poking around imeem. Rather than being a community, seems to be more of a way for independent artists to promote themselves. I wondered onto imeem from my wife's niece's blog link to an artist "A Fine Frenzy" http://www.imeem.com/afinefrenzy/ She sounds good to me.
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Sharepoint is available at work, but most employees don't use it because it one more application to learn and check. How does your company handle these issues?
Most employees don't use it where I work either. Whom ever set it up didn't do it in an organized fashion. It's also quite slow. I only use it when I have to.
We use the community share stuff at work, too. I can see how that would improve security as people can post their data there rather than emailing things around. However, I haven't seen a whole lot of use as most people still use email, which still seems to be faster and easier to use.
To me, it seems that Web 2.0 is a fairly broad term that encompasses several things. At the lower levels, this seems to include technologies like AJAX and Comet, but can also include things like the use of taxonomies for tagging (i.e., Flickr). O'Reilly has an interesting article on this that includes a look at Web 2.0 from a design pattern perspective: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html.
I'm not sure that I agree that all of these are tools. I see some more as services - things you use to get information mostly. I view tools as things I use to create something.
Wincoder - I noticed you didn't specify which ones.
I tried to pick "tools" that included some extent of sharing. Others have chosen tools such as Skype, email, Yahoo, and iTunes which really aren't "sharing" (one to many). Perhaps it's in the interpretation of what Dr. Colongne meant by "tools". I took it to mean web sites/services that provided Web 2.0 capabilities, not Front Page, which is a tool used to create web content.
Pageflakes seems interesting. Soomthing along the lines of the mashup that I'm looking for, but not quite there.
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