Web 2.0 Upgrade Instructions

If you're still using Web 1.0 and would like to upgrade to Web 2.0, please follow the following instructions:

1. Go to www.facebook.com and start a new account. Look up all your friends from high school, junior high, and even elementary school, and add them to your friends list. Upload your recent pictures, tag your friends, join common interest groups, and post a note to the world. (Facebook was started by Harvard students. Last year the owner of facebook was offered a billion dollars to sell the company, but decided not to.)
   
2. Post a video on YouTube or Viddler. Watch lots of other videos as well.
3. Download Skype. Call your friends and family for free and let them see you while talking with you by using your webcam.
4. Read a few articles on random topics from wikipedia, a place where anyone can add or update content on this online encyclopedia.
   
5. Visit Ning and start your own social network, maybe for your family, or for a class at school, or for a church group. You'll find that it is easy to collaborate with your friends and/or co-workers online, and you can search for your group and find it online at google.com
   
6. Open a delicious or diigo account. Add and organize the links to your favorite websites.
   
7. Open a goodreads account and share your favorite books online with strangers who have similar interests. Hey, while you're at it, add a goodreads gadget to your facebook wall.
8. Congratulations, you're upgraded.

If you've followed these instructions and if you are worried about the hardware or software component, don't worry! Web 2.0 refers not to any hardware or software upgrade, but an upgrade on how software-developers and even regular people use the web: collaboration, interaction, personal diaries, etc. That's why it's also known as Learning 2.0. The possibilities are endless.