The first blog was launched in 1997. A blog is an online diary kept by
a person or a group, usually in reverse chronological order, and can be
updated every minute or once a month. There were 14 million blogs
worldwide in July 2005, with 80,000 new blogs per day. According to
Technorati, the first blog search engine, there were 65 million blogs
in December 2006, with 175,000 new blogs per day. Some blogs are
devoted to photos (photoblogs), music (audioblogs or podcasts), and
videos (vlogs or videoblogs).
The wiki concept became quite popular in 2000. Deriving from the
Hawaiian term "wiki" ("fast"), a wiki is a website allowing multiple
users to collaborate online on the same project. Users can contribute
to drafting content, editing it, improving it, and updating it. The
software can be simple or more elaborate. A simple program handles text
and hyperlinks. With a more elaborate program, one can embed images,
charts, tables, etc. The most famous wiki is Wikipedia.
Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow
students as a social network. Originally created for the students of
Harvard University, it was then available to students from any
university in the U.S. before being open to anyone worldwide in
September 2006, to connect with relatives, friends and strangers.
Facebook was the second most visited website after Google, with 500
million users in June 2010, while sparking debates on privacy issues.
Founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone, Twitter is a social
networking and micro-blogging tool to send free short messages of 140
characters maximum, called tweets, via the internet, IM or SMS.
Sometimes described as the SMS of the internet, Twitter gained
worldwide popularity, with 106 million users in April 2010, and 300,000
new users per day. As for tweets, there were 5,000 per day in 2007,
300,000 in 2008, 2.5 million in 2009, 50 million in January 2010, and
55 million in April 2010, with the archiving of public tweets by the
Library of Congress as a reflection of the trends of our time.
We now try to fullfill the second part of Tim Berners-Lee’s dream,
according to his essay dated April 1998: “There was a second part of
the dream, too, dependent on the web being so generally used that it
became a realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the
ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the
state of our interactions was online, we could then use computers to
help us analyze it, make sense of what we are doing, where we
individually fit in, and how we can better work together."
2005 > FROM PDAS TO SMARTPHONES
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