Blogs, Wikis, MySpace, and More: Everything You Want to Know About Using Web 2.0 but Are Afraid to Ask

By Terry Burrows

Book Overview

Don't know your Flickr from your Facebook? Then you need this guide Social media, streaming video, apps, cyber security, tags, and clouds--today's Internet is changing so fast it's difficult for anyone but the most tech-savvy surfer to keep up. How in the World Wide Web are you going to fully understand the "new" Internet without having to dig through two-inch-thick manuals of geek speak? Blogs, Wikis, Facebook, and More is a handy miniencyclopedia of useful and interesting sites, big and small, popular and obscure, that make up today's Internet community. Each website and online application is explained through step-by-step screen shots, with details of what each does, why you'd want to use it, and how to get started. Newly updated and expanded, this guidebook will teach you how to improve your network security, launch your own blog, explore the virtual world of Second Life, and use tags and bookmarks to navigate news and social networking sites like a pro. Even expert surfers will find little-known tips to better use the sites they visit every day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613743270
• ISBN13: 9781613743270
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Best book that I've found on 2.0

I have reviewed and looked at many books that would help me with the many new web sites available. I checked this one out at the library - then rechecked it. Just browse through and pick a site that you have never tried. So many sites, tips and helps that you will want buy it to keep it handy.

Handy guide to Web 2.0

This book is a handy guide to Web 2.0. Burrows explains what exactly is Web 2.0 and how to make the most of it. He describes earlier websites as static and Web 2.0 as interactive. In each chapter, Burrows addresses some new interactive, exciting way the Web in now being used. For example, Burrows has a chapter about blogging. He explains what blogging is, the evolution of blogging, how to start a blog and websites where you can actually get started. He uses the same approach in chapters about creating podcasts, sharing videos, social networking and more.