Social Computing in a Global Context Foothill College Spring Quarter 2011
Course Organization
Internet / Web History AOL, Compuserve Internet World Wide Web Web 2.0 (Social Web) Web 3.0 (Semantic Web) Web 4.0 (Integrated / device Web)
Internet Technology Telnet Bulletin boards Newsgroups FTP HTML XML Web pages / websites Portals (social and business process) IM/Text/SMS and GPS (device messaging / location / presence technology)
Wikinomics Wikinomics principles Openness Sharing Peering Acting globally
Web 2.0 Technology Blogs Wikis IM/text SMS/Twitter Social portals Tagging Ranking
Web 2.0 Portal Timeline Facebook LinkedIn MySpace Wikipedia eBay YouTube Twitter Flickr Skype Yahoo! Google Netscape Match.com Yelp [del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, diigo] Craigslist Friendster
Social Computing Networks and systems Social networks / social fabric History of social networking Social computing definitions Social Network Analysis (SNA) FOAF – Friends of a Friend Social Network Analysis software
Cloud Computing Open source model ‘Web sourcing’ ‘Web services’ SaaS – Software as a Service Cloud computing architecture Distributed computing architecture Supporting mobile computing
Organizational Trends Open Leadership (Charlene Li) Transparency in decision making Collaboration in decision making High performance workgroups Global collaboration tools
Open Innovation InnoCentive Crowd sourcing Collaborative Innovation Networks Collaborative design Proctor & Gamble
Social Data Tagging YouTube Open data / citizen science Social bioinformatics Citizen journalism
Social Business Models Kiva (microfinance) Social business Social entrepreneurs (Skoll foundation) Social transportation Generationwakingup.com Cause marketing