Guest Speaker: Curt Smith
Jan 26, 2011
Please find the presentation from Curt’s talk. Thanks again Curt – amazing insights!
What Business Owners Should Know About Facebook
Apr 26, 2010
A look on tools and applications available on Facebook. Fan Page/Group, Applications and Social Games, Facebook Connect. Opportunities that business owners have to leverage Facebook for their company. Considerations for business owners prior to making business decisions to utilize Facebook as another touchpoint.
Search Engine Optimization Overview
Mar 29, 2010
Please find slides from our Search Engine Optimization class.
API’s, Mashups and Content
Mar 14, 2010
This class was focused on Content generation and focused in on the use of APIs and Mashups. We discussed types of content: professional content, semi-professional content, user generated content (user gen) and machine generated content (APIs were tossed into this last bucket). During the discussion on APIs we spoke about some of the early leaders like Ebay and Amazon and then went into current trends, authentication models (Facebook, Google OpenID, and more). Finally, the class broke out into groups and created their own Mashup / web service using a few APIs.
Additional readings:
Great New York Times Article that discusses trends in Hyperlocal news and spends some time with Adrian Holovaty, the founder of Everyblock and Chicagocrime.org, which was an early example of a Mashup, looking at crime data by neighborhood in Chicago, you can read more about that here from a 2005 NY Times article.
ProgramableWeb’s directory for APIs – great starting place if you are considering creating your own Mashup. List is at 1,600+ as of March, 2010.
History of Online Communities
Feb 19, 2010
Please find the class presentation below. Subjects covered include: History of Online Communities, BBS, AOL IM, ICQ, Instant Messenger, Blogger, Tripod, GeoCities, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Friendster and more!
Course Overview and History of the Internet
Jan 15, 2010
Please find the powerpoint deck from class one, 1/13/10 here:
Link to download the Class Presentation – Course Overview / History of the Internet
Video #1, History of the Internet
Video #2, Social Media Revolution
