Believe it or not, as I preach/evangelize Web 2.0 to friends and acquaintances, I have been getting questions like these: "which country uses Web 2.0?" or "where/how can we get Web 2.0", without these people realize that they've been using it all these years in the forms of Google applications (gmail, igoogle, bookmark, notebook, maps, docs, chat/talk, picasa etc), Yahoo! Flickr, Wikipedia, Friendster (3-million plus users in Malaysia alone ~ 10% of Malaysia's human population), Skype, YouTube, Wordpress/Blogger, Topix, Creative Commons license, misc forums etc -- if you'd care to check Alexa's traffic stats, you'd see how Malaysia constantly ranks as one of the top-20 countries where its inhabitants are flocking top Web 2.0 sites with some even at Top-5 rank even though Malaysia's population ranks at #43 (NOV 2007) among world's countries.
After some heavy discussions in Tokyo, I realized that even the top-notched ICT players among us seem to not fully understand what all the buzzes on Web 2.0 is all about (BTW, Tim O'Reilly did NOT invent Web 2.0!), so, here's a quick presentation to walk you thru the big thing (who needs web2expo??):
As Prof Dr. Michael Wesch and his team of cultural anthropology undergraduate lads at Kansas State University (the author/creator cum producer cum self-publisher of this presentation clip) put it: The machine is Us/ing us...
[This presentation that was finalized on 8 MAR 2007 including its draft versions has been viewed more than four million times via YouTube alone (including via syndication on other sites), and is also available in various downloadable formats, e.g. Microsoft windows media (55 MB) and Apple quicktime (96 MB)]
And if you'd like to learn more about mashing up and tagging as the more recommended and preferred ways to organize information today versus the archaic ontology method (first popularized for the Web by the original Yahoo! directory), check out Welsch's latest upload entitled "Information R/evolution" (12 OCT 2007).BTW, if you like trains and rails, read on my take on Web2Expo Tokyo at my WoNoJo (Pajamapreneurship/Work, Not Jobs 2.0) blog.
Sayonara!
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