Omgili

From the site:

"Omgili (Beta) is a search engine designed to index web-based discussion forums. Omgili's unique algorithm analyzes forums not as a simple web page, but as an active discussion with a title, topic and replies.

Omgili was created in order to separate ordinary web pages from information rich discussion forums. The information contained in online forums is typically presented in a "question and answer" or debate style format. How is this significant?

Many times you will have a question that has already been answered. Using Omgili, you can avoid posting already asked questions and quickly find your answer. Unlike ordinary search engines that prioritize articles and edited web pages, Omgili only indexes discussion forums. Using Omgili's advanced search capabilities you can choose to independently search titles, topics or just the replies of a discussion."

-Miguel

Dabble

From the site:

"Dabble's mission is to help you find and collect videos from all over the web, no matter where they are hosted.

What does this mean? Videos get put on the web in lots of different ways: uploaded from people's home computers, mobile phones, and digital cameras, as well as professionally produced and posted by the company that made them (or others who enjoy them).

With all of these different sources for online video, we knew people would need one place where they could collect videos from all over the web. Dabble gathers video data from hundreds of hosting sites, as well as from tens of thousands of other websites. Dabble keeps a record of where web videos are located, descriptions about the video, who made it, what it's about, how popular it is, and so on.

This record, called "metadata", makes it easy to search and find video. The community of Dabble members adds details and notes, correcting mistakes, and sharing what is valuable to them about the media, enhancing the metadata in a massive team effort that goes far beyond what any one site can do alone."

-Miguel

Talking With Talis

"Listen to conversations with thought-leaders at the interface between Web 2.0, Libraries, and the Semantic Web..."

-Miguel

Berners-Lee on the read/write web

From BBC News:

"In August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first website. Fourteen years on, he tells BBC Newsnight's Mark Lawson how blogging is closer to his original idea about a read/write web."

-Miguel

Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries

From Webology:

"This article posits a definition and theory for "Library 2.0". It suggests that recent thinking describing the changing Web as "Web 2.0" will have substantial implications for libraries, and recognizes that while these implications keep very close to the history and mission of libraries, they still necessitate a new paradigm for librarianship. The paper applies the theory and definition to the practice of librarianship, specifically addressing how Web 2.0 technologies such as synchronous messaging and streaming media, blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging, RSS feeds, and mashups might intimate changes in how libraries provide access to their collections and user support for that access."

-Miguel