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London: The tools of “Web 2.0″ – the community-driven web, can change the world, a meeting heard
this week.

Delegates at the Terra future conference in London were told that social networks
can really make a difference, and Barack Obama’s election campaign believes the notion.

Last year, tech guru Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media, defied the Web 2.0 community to give something more productive than the ‘useless’ Facebook applications.

Now, at this week’s conference, UK-based social media consultant Chris Thorpe pointed out that just a month after O’Reilly’s call, the Obama election campaign launched the Obama ’08 iPhone application.

The application organised and prioritised contacts in key battleground states, “making it easy [for campaigners] to reach out and make an impact quickly”, reports New Scientist.

Thorpe told the conference about a number of other networking sites that might satisfy O’Reilly’s challenge.

Accesscity, for example, is a social networking site through which a community of Londoners is helping to identify the simplest routes across the city for those with mobility issues – be it pushing a baby buggy to carrying heavy bags.

Ted had thought that there would not be many problems as long as he spoke proper English. But then he found that it was not as easy as it seemed to be.
“Tom?”
“Yes sir?”
“Quit calling me sir, alright? Just call me Ted, plain Ted.”
“Why, plain Ted?”
“I meant just call me Ted.”
“OK sir, sorry, Ted.”
“So from when have you been showing people around?”
“I don’t show people around, Ted. I take them to the important historic locations of the city as well as the amusement parks.”
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