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Eminem Discography

2008-11-09T10:42:56-07:00

Albums

Studio albums

Year	Title	Peak chart positions												Sales and certifications (sales thresholds)
Year	Title	US	AUS	AUT	BEL	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA	NZ	SWE	SWI	UK	Sales and certifications (sales thresholds)
1996	Infinite Released: November 1996 Label: Web Format: cassette, CD	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
1999	The Slim Shady LP Released: February 23, 1999 Label: Aftermath/Interscope Format: cassette, CD, digital download	2	49	—	7	9	52	51	—	—	—	25	1	RIAA certification: 4× Multi-Platinum BPI certification: Platinum US sales: 5 million Worldwide sales: 9 million+
2000	The Marshall Mathers LP Released: May 23, 2000 Label: Aftermath/Interscope Format: cassette, CD, digital download, LP	1	1	40	1	9	2	3	7	11	2	2	1	RIAA certification: 9× Multi-Platinum BPI certification: 5x Multi-Platinum US sales: 10 million
2002	The Eminem Show Released: May 28, 2002 Label: Aftermath/Interscope Format: cassette, CD, digital download, LP	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	RIAA certification: 8× Multi-Platinum BPI certification: 4x Platinum IFPI certification: 4x Platinum Worldwide sales: 19 million+
2004	Encore Released: November 12, 2004 Label: Aftermath/Interscope Format: CD, digital download, LP	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	6	1	2	1	1	RIAA certification: 4× Mult-Platinum BPI certification: 3x Platinum IFPI certification: 2x Platinum Worldwide sales: 8.472.000+
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

EPs

Year	Title
1997	The Slim Shady EP Released: December 10, 1997 Label: Web Format: cassette, CD

Compilations

Year	Title	Peak chart positions												Sales and certifications (sales thresholds)
Year	Title	US	AUS	AUT	CAN	GER	IRE	ITA	NL	NZ	SWE	SWI	UK	Sales and certifications (sales thresholds)
2005	Curtain Call: the Hits Greatest hits album Released: December 6, 2005 Label: Aftermath/Interscope Format: CD, digital download, LP	1	1	5	1	7	8	1	5	1	6	5	1	RIAA certification: 2× Multi-Platinum BPI certification: 3x Platinum US sales: 2.9 million Worldwide sales: 5.387.000+

Soundtracks

Year	Title	Peak chart positions											Sales and certifications (sales thresholds)
Year	Title	US	AUS	AUT	CAN	FRA	GER	ITA	NZ	NL	SWE	SWI	Sales and certifications (sales thresholds)
2002	8 Mile soundtrack Released: October 29, 2002 Label: Shady/Interscope Format: cassette, CD, digital download, LP	1	1	2	1	6	1	9	1	2	10	3	RIAA certification: 4× Multi-Platinum BPI certification: Gold IFPI certification: Platinum

Video albums

Year	Title
2000	E Released: December 19, 2000 Label: Aftermath/Interscope RIAA certification: Platinum
2002	All Access Europe Released: June 18, 2002 Label: Interscope RIAA certification: Platinum
2005	Eminem Presents the Anger Management Tour Released: July 4, 2005 Label: Interscope

Singles

Solo charts

Year	Title	Peak chart positions															Album
Year	Title	US Hot 100	US R&B	US Rap	AUS	AUT	CAN	FRA	GER	IRE	ITA	NL	NZ	SWE	SWI	UK	Album
1998	"Just Don't Give a Fuck"	—	62	5	—	—	—	—	34	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	The Slim Shady LP
1999	"My Name Is"	36	18	10	13	—	30	70	37	—	—	12	—	16	29	2
1999	"Guilty Conscience" (feat. Dr. Dre)	—	56	—	—	—	—	97	—	—	—	—	—	25	—	5
2000	"Bitch Please II" (feat. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, & Nate Dogg)	—	21	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	The Marshall Mathers LP
	"The Real Slim Shady"	4	11	7	11	—	15	6	7	—	—	5	—	3	2	1
	"The Way I Am"	58	26	24	34	—	40	—	19	—	—	10	—	6	19	8
	"Stan" (feat. Dido)	51	36	—	1	—	28	4	1	1	26	3	14	3	1	1
2001	"Drug Ballad"	—	51	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2002	"Without Me"	2	13	5	1	1	4	3	1	—	2	1	1	1	1	1	The Eminem Show
	"My Dad's Gone Crazy" (feat. Hailie Jade)	115^¹	64	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Cleanin' Out My Closet"	4	11	5	3	5	91	—	40	—	8	4	5	3	5	4
	"Business"	—	77	25	4	22	—	—	15	7	—	—	14	—	—	6
	"White America"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Lose Yourself"	1	4	2	1	1	9	3	6	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	8 Mile soundtrack
	"8 Mile"	—	54	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	8 Mile soundtrack
2003	"Superman" (feat. Dina Rae)	15	44	10	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	42	—	—	—	The Eminem Show
2003	"Sing for the Moment"	14	—	18	5	7	2	28	5	3	5	8	5	11	8	6	The Eminem Show
2004	"Just Lose It"	6	35	7	1	4	—	7	2	2	2	—	1	12	1	1	Encore
2004	"Encore/Curtains Down" (feat. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent)	25	48	20	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2005	"Mockingbird"	11	51	10	9	18	77	—	15	7	20	—	8	—	14	4
	"Like Toy Soldiers"	34	64	—	4	8	24	34	8	3	8	—	2	14	3	1
	"Ass Like That"	60	93	—	10	27	—	—	31	4	—	—	14	—	25	4
	"When I'm Gone"	8	96	22	1	7	—	—	6	5	—	6	2	5	7	4	Curtain Call: the Hits
	"Shake That" (feat. Nate Dogg)	6	—	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	6	Curtain Call: the Hits
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Other charting songs

Year	Title	Peak chart positions			Album
Year	Title	US Hot 100	US R&B	UK	Album
2000	"Kill You"	—	102^²	—	The Marshall Mathers LP
2002	"Hailie's Song"	113^¹	110^²		The Eminem Show
2004	"Mosh"	—	112^¹	—	Encore
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Solo certifications

Title	Certification
"The Real Slim Shady"	BPI certification: Silver
"Stan"	BPI certification: Platinum
"Without Me"	RIAA certification: Gold BPI certification: Silver
"Lose Yourself"	RIAA certification: Gold BPI certification: Silver
"Just Lose It"	RIAA certification: Gold
"Like Toy Soldiers"	RIAA certification: Gold
"Mockingbird"	RIAA certification: Gold
"When I'm Gone"	RIAA certification: Gold

Charted collaborations

Eminem has collaborated on different songs as a featured performer, some of which have entered in one or more music charts.

Year	Title	Peak chart positions				Album
Year	Title	US Hot 100	US R&B	US Rap	UK	Album
1999	"Dead Wrong" (with The Notorious B.I.G. & Puff Daddy)	—	39	—	—	Born Again
2000	"Forgot About Dre" (with Dr. Dre)	25	14	—	7	2001
2002	"Rock City" (with Royce da 5'9")	—	99	—	—	Rock City (Version 2.0)
2003	"My Name" (with Xzibit & Nate Dogg)	—	66	—	—	Man vs. Machine
2004	"One Day at a Time (Em's Version) (with Tupac & Outlawz)	80	51	22	—	Tupac: Resurrection soundtrack
2005	"Welcome 2 Detroit" (with Trick-Trick)	100	—	—	—	The People vs.
2006	"Smack That" (with Akon)	2	34	—	1	Konvicted
2006	"You Don't Know" (with 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, & Cashis)	12	7	—	4	Eminem Presents: the Re-Up
2007	"Jimmy Crack Corn" (feat. 50 Cent)	101^¹	—	—	—	Eminem Presents: the Re-Up
2007	"Touchdown" (with T.I.)	109^¹	—	—	—	T.I. vs. T.I.P.
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

1 "My Dad's Gone Crazy", "Hailie's Song", "Jimmy Crack Corn" and "Touchdown" all charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at numbers 15, 13, 1 and 9 respectively, equaling numbers 115, 113, 101 and 109 on the Billboard Hot 100.
2 "Kill You", "Hailie's Song" and "Mosh" all charted on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart at numbers 2, 10 and 12 respectively, equaling numbers 102, 110 and 112 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Singles.

Guest appearances

Year	Title	Artist(s)	Album
1998	"Trife Thieves"	Bizarre, Fuzz	Attack of the Weirdos
	"We Shine"	Da Ruckus	Episode 1
	"Fuck Off"	Kid Rock	Devil Without a Cause
	"Green and Gold"	The Anonymous	Green and Gold
1999	"Hustlers & Hardcore"	Feel-X	Behind the Doors of the 13th Floor
	"Busa Rhyme"	Missy Elliott	Da Real World
	"The Last Hit"	Mr. Eon	Home Field Advantage
	"Any Man"		Soundbombing II
	"The Anthem"	Sway & King Tech, RZA, Tech N9ne, Xzibit, Pharoahe Monch, Kool G Rap, Jayo Felony, Chino XL, KRS-One	This or That
	"Get You Mad"	Sway & King Tech	This or That
	"Stir Crazy"	The Madd Rapper	Tell 'Em Why U Madd
	"Bad Influence"		End of Days soundtrack
	"What's the Difference"	Dr. Dre, Xzibit	2001
	"Bad Guys Always Die"	Dr. Dre	Wild Wild West
	"If I Get Locked Up"	Dr. Dre	The Tunnel
	"Murder, Murder"		Next Friday soundtrack
2000	"Rush Ya Clique"	Outsidaz	Night Life
	"Get Back"	D12	The Piece Maker
	"Hellbound" (H&H remix)	J. Black, Masta Ace	Game Over
	"Off the Wall"	Redman	Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
	"Desperados"	Proof, Bugz, Tha Almighty Dreadnaughtz	Kill the DJ
	"Don't Approach Me"	Xzibit	Restless
	"What the Beat"	Method Man, Royce da 5'9"	The Professional, Pt. 2
2001	"What If I Was White"	Sticky Fingaz	Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones
2001	"Renegade"	Jay-Z	The Blueprint
2002	"Watch Deez"	Thirstin Howl III	Skilligan's Island
2003	"Go to Sleep"	DMX, Obie Trice	Cradle 2 the Grave
	"Patiently Waiting"	50 Cent	Get Rich or Die Tryin'
	"Don't Push Me"	50 Cent, Lloyd Banks	Get Rich or Die Tryin'
	"We All Die One Day"	Obie Trice, Lloyd Banks, 50 Cent, Tony Yayo	Cheers
	"Shit Hits the Fan"	Obie Trice, Dr. Dre
	"Lady"	Obie Trice
	"Hands on You"	Obie Trice
	"Outro"	Obie Trice, D12
	"911"	Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., B-Real	West Koastra Nostra
	"Three Six Five"	Skam	Fat Beats Volume Three
2004	"I'm Gone"	Obie Trice	The Streetsweeper Vol. 2: The Pain from the Game
	"Welcome to D-Block"	The L.O.X.	Kiss of Death
	"Warrior Part 2"	Lloyd Banks, Nate Dogg, 50 Cent	The Hunger for More
	"Soldier Like Me"	2Pac	Loyal to the Game
	"Black Cotton"	2Pac, Kastro, Young Noble	Loyal to the Game
2005	"We Ain't"	The Game	The Documentary
	"American Psycho III"	B-Real, Bizarre	The Gunslinger
	"Gatman and Robbin"	50 Cent	The Massacre
	"My Ballz"	D12	The Longest Yard
	"Lean Back" (remix)	Fat Joe, Mase, Lil Jon, Remy Ma	All or Nothing
	"Hip-Hop"	Bizarre	Hannicap Circus
	"Pimplikeness"	D12	Searching for Jerry Garcia
	"Off to Tijuana"	MC Hush, D12	Bulletproof
	"Drama Setter"	Tony Yayo, Obie Trice	Thoughts of a Predicate Felon
	"It Has Been Said"	The Notorious B.I.G., Obie Trice, P. Diddy	Duets: The Final Chapter
	"No More to Say"	Trick-Trick, Proof	The People vs.
2006	"Shady Narcotics"		Eminem Presents: the Re-Up
	"We're Back"	Obie Trice, Stat Quo, Bobby Creekwater and Cashis
	"The Re-Up"	50 Cent
	"Public Enemy #1"
	"Shake That" (remix)	Nate Dogg, Obie Trice and Bobby Creekwater
	"No Apologies"
	"There They Go"	Obie Trice, Big Herk	Second Round's on Me
	"Frontpage Stardom"	Hittman	Hittmanic Verses
2007	"Pistol Poppin'"	Cashis	The County Hound EP
2007	"Peep Show"	50 Cent	Curtis
2008	"Who Want It"	Trick Trick	The Villain
2008	"Norman Bates Motel"	50 Cent	Before I Self Destruct

Music videos

Year	Title	Director(s)	Album
1998	"Just Don't Give a Fuck"	Darren J. Lavett	The Slim Shady LP
1999	"My Name Is"	Dr. Dre, Phillip Atwell
	"Guilty Conscience"
	"Role Model"
2000	"The Real Slim Shady"		The Marshall Mathers LP
	"The Way I Am"	Paul Hunter
	"Stan"	Dr. Dre, Phillip Atwell
2002	"Without Me"	Joseph Kahn	The Eminem Show
	"Cleanin' Out My Closet"	Dr. Dre, Phillip Atwell	The Eminem Show
	"Lose Yourself"	Eminem, Paul Rosenberg, Phillip Atwell	8 Mile soundtrack
2003	"Superman"	Paul Hunter	The Eminem Show
2003	"Sing for the Moment"	Phillip Atwell	The Eminem Show
2004	"Mosh"	Ian Inaba	Encore
	"Just Lose It"	Phillip Atwell
	"Like Toy Soldiers"	Saline Project
2005	"Mockingbird"	Eminem, Quig
	"Ass Like That"	Phillip Atwell
	"When I'm Gone"	Anthony Mandler	Curtain Call: the Hits
2006	"Shake That"	Plates Animation	Curtain Call: the Hits

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Website

2008-08-03T02:34:51-06:00

A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN.

A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a protocol that transfers information from the Web server to display in the user's Web browser.

All publicly accessible websites are seen collectively as constituting the "World Wide Web".

The pages of websites can usually be accessed from a common root URL called the homepage, and usually reside on the same physical server. The URLs of the pages organize them into a hierarchy, although the hyperlinks between them control how the reader perceives the overall structure and how the traffic flows between the different parts of the sites.

Some websites require a subscription to access some or all of their content. Examples of subscription sites include many business sites, parts of many news sites, academic journal sites, gaming sites, message boards, Web-based e-mail, services, social networking website, and sites providing real-time stock market data.

As of March 2007 there are over 8 billion web pages in total on the World Wide Web. - Source

History

The first on-line website appeared in 1991. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone.[1] A copy of the original first Web page, created by Tim Berners-Lee, is kept here.

Spelling

As noted above, there are several different spellings for this term. Although "website" and "web site" are commonly used (the former especially in British English), the Associated Press Stylebook, Reuters, Microsoft, academia, book publishing, The Chicago Manual of Style, and dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster use the two-word, initially capitalized spelling Web site. This is because "Web" is not a general term but a shortened form of World Wide Web. As with many newly created terms, it may take some time before a common spelling is finalized. (This controversy also applies to derivative terms such as "Web master"/"webmaster" and "Web cam"/"webcam").

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary and the Canadian Press Stylebook list "website" and "web page" as the preferred spellings. The Oxford English Dictionary began using "website" as its standardized form in 2004.

Bill Walsh, the copy chief of The Washington Post's national desk, and one of American English’s foremost grammarians, argues for the two-word spelling with capital W in his books Lapsing into a Comma and The Elephants of Style, and on his site, the Slot.

Prizes

The Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the world's "best" websites, a concept pioneered by Best of the Web in 1994.

Notes and references

Cailliau, Robert. A Little History of the World Wide Web.
AskOxford: How should the term website be written in official documents and on the web?. Oxford Dictionaries Online.
The Slot—Sharp Points: Here We Go Again—Eeee!.

Links

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Web design

2008-07-24T02:16:05-06:00

Web design is a process of conceptualization, planning, modeling, and execution of electronic media delivery via Internet in the form of Markup language suitable for interpretation by Web browser and display as Graphical user interface (GUI).

The intent of web design is to create a web site -- a collection of electronic files that reside on a web server/servers and present content and interactive features/interfaces to the end user in form of Web pages once requested. Such elements as text, bit-mapped images (GIFs, JPEGs, PNGs), forms can be placed on the page using HTML/XHTML/XML tags. Displaying more complex media (vector graphics, animations, videos, sounds) requires plug-ins such as Flash, QuickTime, Java run-time environment, etc. Plug-ins are also embedded into web page by using HTML/XHTML tags.

Improvements in browsers' compliance with W3C standards prompted a widespread acceptance and usage of XHTML/XML in conjunction with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to position and manipulate web page elements and objects. Latest standards and proposals aim at leading to browsers' ability to deliver a wide variety of media and accessibility options to the client possibly without employing plug-ins.

Typically web pages are classified as static or dynamic.

Static pages don’t change content and layout with every request unless a human (web master/programmer) manually updates the page.

Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on end-user’s input/interaction or changes in the computing environment (user, time, database modifications, etc.) Content can be changed on the client side (end-user's computer) by using client-side scripting languages (JavaScript, JScript, Actionscript, etc.) to alter DOM elements (DHTML). Dynamic content is often compiled on the server utilizing server-side scripting languages (Perl, PHP, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, etc.). Both approaches are usually used in complex applications.

With growing specialization in the information technology field there is a strong tendency to draw a clear line between web design and web development.

History

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, published a website in August 1991.[1] Berners-Lee was the first to combine Internet communication (which had been carrying email and the Usenet for decades) with hypertext (which had also been around for decades, but limited to browsing information stored on a single computer, such as interactive CD-ROM design).

Websites are written in a markup language called HTML, and early versions of HTML were very basic, only giving websites basic structure (headings and paragraphs), and the ability to link using hypertext. This was new and different to existing forms of communication - users could easily navigate to other pages by following hyperlinks from page to page.

As the Web and web design progressed, the markup language used to make it became more complex and flexible, giving the ability to add objects like images and tables to a page. Features like tables, which were originally intended to be used to display tabular information, were soon subverted for use as invisible layout devices. With the advent of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), table-based layout is increasingly regarded as outdated. Database integration technologies such as server-side scripting and design standards like CSS further changed and enhanced the way the Web is made.

The introduction of Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash) into an already interactivity-ready scene has further changed the face of the Web, giving new power to designers and media creators, and offering new interactivity features to users, often at the expense of usability for persons with disabilities, search engine visibility and browser functions available to HTML.

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Lively, Google's 3D Second Life

2008-07-09T17:33:33-06:00

Google forgot of Jaiku, the social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service purchased by Google in 2007, and wants now to compete with Linden's Second Life.

Lively, available in Google Labs, like Second Life, need a software to be downloaded and installed in your computer (only Windows, for now), and it uses the common browser for the members (it is, in fact, a plug-in for browsers).

Google does not consider it as an alternative life, but as an cyber improvement of your existing life. For this, it uses the existing photos and videos on Internet, or you can embed the Lively area into your content using Google widgets.

Lively helps you to design your own virtual space and share it with the others.

Google Official Blog says that "if you enter a Lively room embedded on your favorite blog or website, you can immediately get a sense of the room creator's interests, just by looking at the furniture and environment they chose. You can also express your own personality by customizing your avatar's look, showing people who you are without having to say a word. Of course, you can chat with each other, and you can also interact through animated actions.“

"Our intent is to be part of the users' everyday experience," said Niniane Wang, an engineering manager at Google with contribution in designing Lively. "We designed it to be easy to use."

For the moment, Lively does not allow any commercial use of this virtual world.

Bridges

2008-06-25T17:29:03-06:00

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

(Author unknown)

(Music: Iosif Ivanovici, The Waves of the Danube)

What A Wonderful World

2008-06-18T09:25:52-06:00

I see trees of green........ red roses too
I see em bloom..... for me and for you
And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue..... clouds of white
Bright blessed days....dark sacred nights
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world.

The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the sky
Are also on the faces.....of people ..going by
I see friends shaking hands.....sayin.. how do you do
Theyre really sayin......i love you.

I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
Theyll learn much more.....than Ill never know
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world

The colors of a rainbow.....so pretty ..in the sky
Are there on the faces.....of people ..going by
I see friends shaking hands.....sayin.. how do you do
Theyre really sayin...*spoken*(I ....love....you).

I hear babies cry...... I watch them grow
*spoken*(you know their gonna learn
A whole lot more than Ill never know)
And I think to myself .....what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself .......what a wonderful world.

(Louis Armstrong, What A Wonderful World...)

(From a PPS with anonzmous author)

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Winter - Video

2008-06-16T07:46:47-06:00

A winter garden in an alder swamp,
Where conies now come out to sun and romp,
As near a paradise as it can be
And not melt snow or start a dormant tree.

It lifts existence on a plane of snow
One level higher than the earth below,
One level nearer heaven overhead,
And last year's berries shining scarlet red.

It lifts a gaunt luxuriating beast
Where he can stretch and hold his highest feat
On some wild apple tree's young tender bark,
What well may prove the year's high girdle mark.

So near to paradise all pairing ends:
Here loveless birds now flock as winter friends,
Content with bud-inspecting. They presume
To say which buds are leaf and which are bloom.

A feather-hammer gives a double knock.
This Eden day is done at two o'clock.
An hour of winter day might seem too short
To make it worth life's while to wake and sport.

(Robert Frost, A Winter Eden )

Social networking and Web 2.0

2008-06-05T17:53:18-06:00

Social networks connect people at low cost, a good feature for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand their contact base and targeted visitors. These networks often act as a customer relationship management tool for companies selling products and services. Companies can also use social networks for advertising in the form of banners and text ads. Since businesses operate globally, social networks can make it easier to keep in touch with contacts around the world.

Professional networking sites function as online meeting places for business and industry professionals. Other sites are bringing this model for niche business professional networking.

Virtual communities for business allow individuals to be accessible. People establish their real identity in a verifiable place. These individuals then interact with each other or within groups that share common business interests and goals. They can also post their own user generated content in the form of blogs, pictures, slide shows and videos. Like a social network, the consumer essentially becomes the publisher.

A professional network is used for the business to business marketplace. These networks improve the ability for people to advance professionally. Business professionals can share experiences with others who have a need to learn from similar experiences. Additionally, the ability to find, connect and network with other business professionals is one reason to become so popular.

The traditional way to interact is face-to-face. Interactive technology makes it possible for people to network with their peers from anywhere, at anytime in an online environment. Professional network services attract, aggregate and assemble large business-focused audiences by creating informative and interactive meeting places.

Most services are primarily web-based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion groups, and so on. Social networking has revolutionized the way we communicate and share information with one another in today's society. Various social networking websites are being used by millions of people everyday on a regular basis and it now seems that social networking is a part of everyday life. The main types of social networking services are those which contain directories of some categories (such as former classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages), and recommender systems linked to trust.

Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web.

According to Tim O'Reilly: “ Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform." (Wikipedia)

Social networking tools o be included:

Social networking websites
Social bookmarking & news
MySpace page layouts and management
Podcast production (audio & video)
RSS feeds & syndicated content using XML
Blogs & message boards
Instant messaging & chat
On-demand and live video & audio
Mobile-ready content
User-submitted management content tools
Interactive maps, weather forecast, etc.
Any other specific feature, on-demand

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