What is web 2.0
There are many different definitions for Web 2.0: some of them, all equally valid, can be read on Wikipedia.
Generally speaking, web 2.0 defines an evolution of the World Wide Web, as opposed to traditional web features such as static web pages with periodically updated content, e-mails, chats and message boards.
Web 2.0 is best represented by 3 key pillars: Interactivity, development of Social Networks, User Experience Improvement; this way, users are able to generate and organize online content.
On this page, a number of Web 2.0 services provided by the City of Turin are listed.
The City of Turin web 2.0 services
- City of Turin Widget http://eco.netvibes.com/widgets/297791/comune-di-torino
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The City of Turin's web news are now available for your own personal pages: if you use customizable homepages such as iGoogle, Netvibes, Windows Live, or Opera, Windows Vista and Apple Dashboard's Widgets, you can now download the City of Turin official widget. Inside the widget, you may find featured news, cultural events held in Turin from the Torinocultura's web pages, real time traffic conditions and public transport data, our daily news agencies (Torinoclick and cittAgorà), weather forecast, facts, and much more.
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Features
- The widget supports Netvibes UWA (Universal Widget API); thus, it can be used on each blog system or platform, such as: Netvibes, iGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera, Windows Vista, Live.com, etc.
- It aggregates news coming form different RSS feeds provided by the City of Turin.
- It can be used on CambiaTO (see below)
Development Plans
- "Socializing" the widget, that is, making it available on Social Network websites (Facebook, Orkut, Linkedin, Plaxo, etc.)
- Widgets Tabs Library: the creation of thematic tabs to be included in Netvibes's social network and freely available to Netvibes users.
- Portability of the Widget Service on mobiles, with an application software directly developed by the City of Turin web staff.
- Torinofacile: direct access with webcam www.torinofacile.it/datacode/
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Access to the Torinofacile personal web services is provided through the use of a simple webcam: a special bi-dimensional barcode, representing your TorinoFacilissima card data, is shown to the webcam, and it is read online by the ShowYour Card (SyC) system. This way, authentication is granted without having to write your access codes, except the password. It is an easy and quick way to enter Torinofacile's world.
Features
- It allows access to the TorinoFacile services, by reading a DataMatrix-like barcode through a common webcam.
- The barcode includes the TorinoFacile ID and the Personal Identification Code (CIP), associated to a control code.
- The only thing the user has to enter is the password.
Development Plans
- Extending the usage of this kind of service to other services that require identification by using an extended code. This way, input errors may be reduced.
- TaggaTO www.comune.torino.it/taggato
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TaggaTO is the social bookmarking service offered by City of Turin. It is applied to services and pages from the websites of the City Administration.
Users registered on Torinofacile, the citizen's personal services portal, can assign one or more "tags" (small definitions) to pages they find interesting and useful. This operation is used later to trigger a tailored search that reflects the association between tags and pages. The citizens can hence use the words they deem more appropriate, independently from the language used by the Public Administration.
Features
- It allows users to define pages as "private pages"; these pages are not visible to other users
- It allows the use of tags made by one or more words, separating different tags with a comma.
- It integrates the for:TaggaTO functionality from del.icio.us. This special tag can be used by a user that saves on del.icio.us one of the pages from the websites of the City Administration. It sends a list of the tags used on del.icio.us to TaggaTO: those inputs are periodically controlled by our staff and added to the tags of TaggaTO.
Development Plans
- Organization of tags in categories
- Implementation of a "link sharing" (network) feature among TaggaTO users
- CambiaTO www.comune.torino.it/cambiato/
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CambiaTO (“Il comune come lo vuoi TO") is a customizable homepage that stores data frome the City of Turin website and other sites. The system is particularly efficient because it splits data in thematically related chunks of content spread on the page, which are easy to interact with. For example, it is possible to gain direct access to weather forecast, news from Informagiovani and Informambiente and other news agencies, official notices from GTT (Turin's Public Transport Agency), weekly appointments and so on, all in the same page. The service can also be seen as a personal, customizable, always updated appointment book.
Features
- The system lets users create their own personal page using content provided by the City
- It allows content to be moved all over the page, according to the user's preference
- It creates a column structure, whose number is defined by the user
- It accepts every kind of RSS feed (even outside of the City's website) as a news source
Development Plans
- Usage of the page with full functionalities with javascript disabled
- Support for third-parties widgets created with the Universal Widget APIs
- Inclusion of the search engine of the City of Turin website among available content
- Possibility to add new tabs created by the user to the page
- Addition of a personal, private administration page
- Torino Espresso www.comune.torino.it/torinoespresso
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Torino Espresso is a City of Turin service that takes advantage from the flexibility of the RSS format, allowing different news sources to be aggregated.
The service collects in a quick and easy way daily news from the City (traffic conditions, environment news, youths, concerts, demonstrations and strikes, city webcams and News from the City Council published on the City of Turin websites. It is possible to read a brief excerpt of the news first and then reading the rest through a link to the full content).
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Features
- It allows the aggregation of many file formats, such as:
- RSS
- XML
- XHTML
- Images
- Videos
- Flash Animations
- MP3
- Podcast
- Torino Espresso is viewable on portable devices, such as PDAs and Smartphones
- On portable devices (for the City websites only) the full pages can be seen in text format
Development Plans
- Graphic restyling
- Improvement in recognition and content for mobile device
- It allows the aggregation of many file formats, such as:
- StampaTO www.comune.torino.it/torinoclick
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StampaTO is an aggregation system for RSS feeds that has been specifically developed for print; it is a true personalized newspaper that can be created and printed before leaving your office. It can then be read on train or bus. It offers an excerpt of RSS feeds published by the City of Turin, together with Torinoclick, a daily news agency created by the City Press Office that provides the main news and is updated live.
Features
- It creates a printable personal newspaper from different RSS feeds from the City
- It provides the daily Torinoclick edition
- It holds the Torinoclick's full archive of past editions
Development Plans
- Complete customization of content, allowing users to add news and feeds from other Web sources.
- MappaTO www.comune.torino.it/mappato
MappaTO is a personalized version of Google Maps, created by the City of Turin: it gives you the ability to create your maps of the City. You can create maps with points of interest, routes, areas. You can keep your maps private or share them with others. Moreover, you can let others edit your maps if you want to: this lets MappaTo users create a whole environment of social mapping. Everybody can see public maps, but if you want to create your owns you have to login with your Torinofacile free digital identity.
Features
- It indicates points of interest in Turin, categorizing them
- It contains touristic routes and maps by the City of Turin
- It lets users share their maps if they want to
- It lets you edit others' maps if they set them as shareable
- It exports your maps on Google Earth and Tom Tom
Development Plans
- Editing of single points of interest, routes and areas
- Subscribing points of interest, routes and areas created by others
- Maps exporting in Microsoft Virtual Earth
- SegnalaTO www.comune.torino.it/php/reclami/targheViarie.php?context=sezioni&submitAction=cosa&
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Through this service it is possible to signal to competent offices in Turin problems and issues about street nameplates, showing the state of the nameplate with a digital image, directly on the spot with a mobile or at home from a PC.
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Features
- It allows to signal problems about street nameplates.
- The segnalation can be sent by web and by mobile (via MMS).
Development Plans
- Possibility to use the service through an application freely downloadable on mobiles.
- Extension of the service to other kinds of segnalations.
- Screencasts and City of Turin video tutorials www.comune.torino.it/videoguide
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Through screencast and videoguides it is possibile to find out more about many features of the City of Turin website. The various areas of the website are explained in small videos: an easy-to-check, quick multimedial help to surf the webpages of the City in the best possible way.
Features
- Complete guide to the City of Turin homepage.
- Miniguides about the homepage::
- site header
- left column
- central column
- right column
- semantic search engine
Development Plans
- New areas of the site will soon be covered by guides
- YouTorino: the City of Turin Youtube channel www.comune.torino.it/youtorino
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YouTorino is the Youtube channel of the City of Turin. Through its hosted videos, a number of information about the City and its peculiar respects (gastronomy, design, architecture, sport etc.) are given. Youtorino also periodically features cultural events: the channel hosts the archive of past editions of Torino Web News, the videojournal created by the City of Turin Web Staff.
- Dentro la Musica www.comune.torino.it/dentrolamusica
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Dentro la Musica (Inside Music) is a beta project to help undertanding and listening of Ludwig Van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in Dminor Op. 125 'Choral'. Dentro la Musica provides you an audio guide (by Prof. Giangiorgio Satragni) to analyze the Symphony's movements and to give you an historical panorama of the masterpiece and a simple video guide to start reading the score.
- Twitorino www.twitter.com/twitorino
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Twitorino is City of Torino official Twitter account: non-stop breaking news from the City website's homepage, press releases, info from the international editions of the website.
You can keep in touch with the city's updates by following @twitorino. If you want to know when our last video is uploaded on the City's YouTube Channel, you may follow instead the @youtorino account.
- Facebook http://www.facebook.com/cittaditorino
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City of Torino's Facebook page picks info published on the City's website homepage and shares them into the popular social network
- Yahoo! Go
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City of Torino Yahoo! Go application lets you read on your mobile news from the City's homepage, press releases, RSS feeds: a list of supported devices is on the Yahoo! Go website. You can also get webcams, meteo and forecasts.
- iTorino http://www.itorino.it
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iTorino is the official mobile website of the CIty: news, real-time traffic info, public transports, weather forecasts, tourist info and even more. See what'on tonight and this week in Torino, hunt for a City's board, search for a telephone number you need, etc.
With iTorino, the city is in your hands.