Friday, July 30, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Introduction: WEB 2 POINT O: what is ALL this stuff?
Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the WWW that lets people collaborate and share information online.” - Wikipedia.com
Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, podcasts, social networking and social bookmarking sites, tagging, photo- and video-sharing, RSS, etc...) are collaborative, browser-based and user-driven. They include platforms and tools for publishing, connecting, sharing, organizing and remixing.
A popular synonym for "Web 2.0" is the "Read/Write" web, which suggests that users are contributing, creating and collaborating rather than just consuming web content. "Web 1.0" or the "Read-Only" web was a place where the average user didn't publish content, because it required technical knowledge (HTML and other programming code) and money (to purchase server space and software). Web 2.0 tools allow users to easily participate and to customize their online experiences. Another term you might hear is "prosumers" rather than "consumers" because web users are able to produce content.
At it's core, Web 2.0 is about powerful Web-based technologies connecting people and ideas; it's about sharing.
View this YouTube video;
The machine is Us
Share pictures:
- Picasa, Flickr, Momentile
- Share videos:
- YouTube
- Share thoughts:
- Twitter
- Share bookmarks:
- Delicious
- Share knowledge:
- Wikipedia
- Share everything:
- Facebook, Tumblr, Posterous
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