Social Media Design 101

Lecture: examples of Web 2.0

The Web as Platform

Office suites

• Zoho
• ThinkFree Office

Wordprocessing

• Google Docs (formerly Writely)
• Zoho Writer

Image processing

• Splashup

Virtual computers

• Desktop On Demand
• EyeOS
• Ulteo

Workshop: [1] Review of a Web 2.0 site / application; [2] XHTML revision—start building a simple web site (by default, a tabular directory of Web 2.0 sites, though you may elect to substitute any other theme of your choosing). Rationale: you are not only revising your knowledge of XHTML but also compiling a directory of your favourite sites.