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From a Web visionary and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , a fascinating, ambitious look at how the Web is transforming the concepts on which our society is built . In this insightful social commentary, David Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hype to reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the Web is transforming not only social institutions but also bedrock concepts of our world such as space, time, self, knowledge-even reality itself. Through stories of life on the Web, a unique take on Web sites, and a pervasive sense of humor, Weinberger is the first to put the Web into the social and intellectual context we need to begin assessing its true impact on our lives. The irony, according to Weinberger, is that this seemingly weird new technology is more in tune with our authentic selves than is the modern world. Funny, provocative, and ultimately hopeful, Small Pieces Loosely Joined makes us look at the Web as never before.

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Information society. --- World Wide Web --- Internet --- Mass media and culture. --- Société informatisée --- Web --- Médias et culture --- Social aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Political aspects --- Political aspects. --- Aspect social --- Aspect économique --- Aspect politique --- Société informatisée --- Médias et culture --- Aspect économique --- Information society --- Mass media and culture --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- World Wide Web - Social aspects --- World Wide Web - Economic aspects --- World Wide Web - Political aspects --- Internet - Social aspects --- Internet - Economic aspects --- Internet - Political aspects

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Ever since its inception, the Web has changed the landscape of human experiences on how we interact with one another and data through service infrastructures via various computing devices. This interweaving environment is now becoming ever more embedded into devices and systems that integrate seamlessly on how we live, both in our working or leisure time. For this volume, King and Baeza-Yates selected some pioneering and cutting-edge research work that is pointing to the future of the Web. Based on the Workshop Track of the 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008) in Beijing, they selected the top contributions and asked the authors to resubmit their work with a minimum of one third of additional material from their original workshop manuscripts to be considered for this volume. After a second-round of reviews and selection, 16 contributions were finally accepted. The work within this volume represents the tip of an iceberg of the many exciting advancements on the WWW. It covers topics like semantic web services, location-based and mobile applications, personalized and context-dependent user interfaces, social networks, and folksonomies. The presentations aim at researchers in academia and industry by showcasing latest research findings. Overall they deliver an excellent picture of the current state-of-the-art, and will also serve as the basis for ongoing research discussions and point to new directions.

Web services. --- World Wide Web -- Social aspects. --- World Wide Web -- Technological innovations. --- World Wide Web. --- World Wide Web --- Web services --- Telecommunications --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Social aspects --- Technological innovations --- Social aspects. --- Technological innovations. --- W3 (World Wide Web) --- Web (World Wide Web) --- World Wide Web (Information retrieval system) --- WWW (World Wide Web) --- Computer science. --- Information storage and retrieval. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Computer Science. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Information Storage and Retrieval. --- Hypertext systems --- Multimedia systems --- Internet --- Application software --- Cloud computing --- Information storage and retrieva. --- Informatics --- Science --- Information storage and retrieval systems. --- Automatic data storage --- Automatic information retrieval --- Automation in documentation --- Computer-based information systems --- Data processing systems --- Data storage and retrieval systems --- Discovery systems, Information --- Information discovery systems --- Information processing systems --- Information retrieval systems --- Machine data storage and retrieval --- Mechanized information storage and retrieval systems --- Computer systems --- Electronic information resources --- Data libraries --- Digital libraries --- Information organization --- Information retrieval --- Application software. --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software