It’s been a long, long time since I’ve updated my Web 2.0 materials; but I’m presenting a two-day Web 2.0 seminar in Rome next week, so I thought it was time to bring things up to date. I’ve actually been keeping a list of newsworthy items for just this purpose; and I’ve listed below the several dozen things I’ve added to the materials.

As usual, you can download the 33-megabyte PDF version of this presentation by clicking here, or on the icon below; you can also download it as a 34-megabyte Powerpoint file by clicking here. It’s published under the GNU Free Documentation license (GFDL), so you’re welcome to modify the material and reuse it any way you want, free of charge; the second page of the presentation provides the usual caveat emptor disclaimers. The material is also available/downloadable as a Powerpoint file from my Slideshare page; but because Google limits the size of uploaded presentations to 10 megabytes (along with several other annoying limitations), it’s no longer available on Google Docs. If you’d like me to make the material available in some other format, or on some other hosting site, please drop me an email note and let me know.

Here’s a summary of the material that I’ve added since the last version

1. On page 5, I updated the count of YouTube downloads of Michael Wesch’s “The Machine is (us)ing Us“; it’s now up to 5.5 million downloads.
2. Also on page 5, I added a bullet point with a link to a YouTube video that provides an audiovisual explanation/definition of Web 2.0, based on the Wikipedia article.
3. Also on page 5, I added a bullet point with a link to a sarcastic YouTube spoof, entitled Restaurant 2.0.
4. On page 18, I added a bullet point with a link to a Business Week article on “Beyond Blogs“.
5. On pages 19-25, I added several new pages of material to show the Twitter website (for those who have no idea what Twitter is all about), the Twhirl client-side tweet-reader (which runs on both Windows and Mac computers), Tweetstats. and several other aspects of Twitter.
6. On page 19, I added a description of Twitter that I got via a “tweet” from a Twitter user: “IM is real-time, person-to-person communication while Twitter is baby email with everyone where you get to pick whose msgs to read.”
7. Also on page 19, I added a bullet point with a link to a case study showing how a small business is using Twitter.
8. On page 22, I added a new page to show an example of Tweetwheel.
9. On page 23, I added a bullet point with a link to a slide show that describes the difference between email, IM, blogging, and Twittering.
10. Also on page 23: I added a bullet point with a link to a St. Louis newspaper article about using Twitter to provide real-time information about the traffic impact of a repair-shutdown of a busy highway in the area. I added the same information to an existing link on page 100, which discusses the use of Web 2.0 in government.
11. On page 24, I updated the statistics about Twitter to show that it had 1,752,793 subscribers as of May 30, 2008 (which, by the way, represents almost twice as many as the 952,517 subscribers that existed on March 29th); I also added a link to this chart, which shows Twitter’s recent exponential growth. I think Twitter is going mainstream, and will really begin to scale up at this point (if its architecture can handle it, which is very much an open question at this point. If you’re interested in keeping up with the statistics about Twitter’s growth, consult Twitstats whenever you want.
12. Also on page 24: I added a bullet point with a link to GroupTweet.
13. Also on page 24: I added a bullet point link to my blog article about “Twitter in Plain English“.
14. Also on page 24: I added a bullet point with a link to Dan Farber’s May 18, 2008 blog discussing some interesting statistics about the ratio of followers to following that one sees on Twitter.
15. Also on page 24: I added a bullet point link to a blog posting on “What is Twitter Used For? The Message is the Medium“; also, from the same author, “What is Twitter For?“
16. Also on page 24: I added a bullet point with a link to an online store that now carries “Eat. Sleep. Tweet.” t-shirts.
17. On page 25, I added a bullet point with a link to Dan Farber’s Apr 28, 2008 blog posting on “What Twitter Brings to the Party“.
18. Also on page 25, I added a bullet point with a link to a new service called Tweetcube, which supports file-sharing of files, via Twitter, of up to 10 megabytes.
19. Also on page 25, I added a bullet point with a link to an article about “tweetjects” and “blogjects” (i.e., objects that tweet and blog); and I provided some examples, including the twittering London Tower Bridge, and a twittering house (see also this article from Wired).
20. Also on page 25, I added a bullet point with a link to Tweetclouds, which lets you see which words you use most frequently in your twitter messages.
21. Also on page 25, I added a bullet point with a link to Twitterphone.
22. On (new) page 26, I displayed part of the Zappos Twitter page, as well as a link to a Harvard Business Publishing article entitled “Why Zappos Pays New Employees To Quit — and You Should Too“.
23. On page 28, I eliminated the “private beta” description of Dopplr. It’s now open to the public.
24. Also on page 28: I added a bullet point to indicate that Dopplr is now integrated with LinkedIn, Twitter, Gmail, and Flickr in order to help build a larger network of one’s “fellow travelers”.
25. On pages 29-31, I added more detailed slides to explain what Dopplr is all about.
26. On page 37, I updated the bullet point about Obama’s “1984″ YouTube spoof; as of May 28, 2008, it now has 5.2 million downloads.
27. Also on page 37: I added a bullet point with a link to the Obama “Yes, We Can” YouTube video — and indicated that as of May 28, 2008 it had 7.7 million downloads.
28. On pages 32-33, I added two new pages of material about special-purpose social-networking sites, and a screen shot of interesting YouTube presentations.
29. On page 46, I added a bullet point with a link to a recent CIO article indicating that enterprise mashups are on the rise.
30. On page 47, I added a bullet point with a link to the “ultimate Yahoo Pipes mashup list“. I also added a bullet point with a link to the Yahoo Pipes Twitter link monitor, which provides a stream of Twitter tweets that contain URL’s.
31. On page 62, I added a bullet point with a link to a mini-wiki tool called Backboard.
32. On page 76, I added a bullet point with a link to an article discussing rumors that Twitter may abandon its use of Ruby on Rails.
33. On page 85, I added a bullet point with a link to an Aprill 30, 2008 Information Week article summarizing Oracle’s plans to build a Web 2.0-friendly version of its enterprise apps.
34. On page 87, which lists several Web 2.0-related things going on at IBM, I added a bullet point with a link to IBM Rocks; and I added a bullet point with a link to a recent article about IBM’s Web 2.0 tools and plans; and I also added a bullet point with a link to a Business Week article about IBM’s use of social networking.
35. On page 88, I added a bullet point with a link to the Wikipedia article summarizing the basics of Microsoft’s Sharepoint product for blogs and wikis.
36. On page 99, I added a bullet point link to David Pogue’s March 27, 2008 New York Times column on “Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0?” And I also added a bullet point with a link to a May 6, 2008 CIO Australia article entitled “Enterprise 2.0: what is it good for?“
37. Page 99, with a list of “trends in large companies” got so crowded and busy that I broke it in half, and put the second half on a (new) page 98.
38. On page 103, I added a bullet point with a link to an interesting example of a “laggard” culture: 20% of the U.S. population has never used e-mail.
39. On page 105, I added a bullet point with a link to a Harvard Business School podcast on strategies for succeeding with social networking technologies in the enterprise.
40. On page 126 about ubiquitous/pervasive computing, I added a bullet point with a link to the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing.
41. On page 128, I added a new page about future UI paradigms, suggesting that (based on examples like Tweetwheel, Digg’s UI research, and IBM Rocks) some of them are likely to come from Web 2.0 vendors, startups, and inspired individuals. I also added a bullet point, with a link to Cisco’s recently-announced holographic video-conferencing technology (and I added a link to the Cisco announcement on page 90, which summarizes Cisco’s other Web 2.0 initiatives).
42. On page 99, I added a bullet point with a link to a recent McKinsey survey, summarizing usage of Web 2.0 in businesses.
43. On page 104, I added a bullet point with a link to the transparentgovt website, which has a list of about half a dozen countries whose governments are doing interesting things with Web 2.0
44. On page 126, I added a bullet point with a link to a blog posting indicating that Colombia has recently ordered 65,000 of the $100 OLPC computers, for distribution to its children. I also added a bullet point summarizing plans for a 2010-release of the 2nd-generation OLPC computer, with a link to a press release with more details.
45. Also on page 126: courtesy of Tim O’Reilly, who brought my attention to a May 31, 2008 New York Times article that I skimmed this morning but ignored, I’ve now added a bullet point on the page about ubiquitous computing to the article, which discusses billboards that are connected to the Internet, and which watch consumer reactions as they walk by.
46. On page 135, I deleted a bunch of Web 2.0 conferences that have already taken place, and added a June 25, 2008 event: International Conference on Enterprise 2.0, in Varese, Italy. I also added bullet points for upcoming Web 2.0 conferences such as SuperNova 2008 in San Francisco (June 16-18); Social Networking Conference in San Francisco (Jul 10-11); FOWA in London (Oct 8-10); Web 2.0 Expo in New York City (Sep 16-19); and the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco (Nov 5-7) . I also updated the details for the Wikimania 2008 conference in beautiful downtown Alexandria, Egypt.
47. On page 136, I added a parenthetical note to indicate that The ClueTrain Manifesto is now ten years old! (which simply demonstrates how easy it is for some companies to ignore major trends for a decade…) I also added a new book to the list: Social Networks Around The World: How is Web 2.0 Changing Your Daily Life?

I also tried to add a visual/graphic image to each page, so you wouldn’t be forced to stare at nothing but a page full of text (actually, I’m not so worried about the impact on people who look at the material on their computer screen; I’m more concerned about audiences falling asleep when I present the material in my seminar). But you should be aware that virtuall every image/graphic that you see is hyperlinked to some non-trivial material — e.g., a Website, an article, a YouTube video, etc. So don’t be fooled by pretty pictures; there’s content behind it.

I’ll probably be making some minor updates to the material during the seminar presentation in Rome next week, so check back from time to time to see if there is a new “V53″ version available.