Module 2 intro - What is Web 2.0

Web 2.0 became more of the vision that Berners-Lee had for it instead of being organised by organisations and limits dot people who knew HTML, programming code. User participation: The web became more of a platform, and the term cloud computing also help describe it. This mesms the user to trust other platforms to store the data, so that it is on servers outside of the home, this replaces floopy discs in some way? Enabling the public, users to generate and upload their own content, through platforms like Flickr, Facebook, YouTube. Then the use of Folksonomy as well where we the public creates descriptive tagging that allows us, through the phenomenon of collective intelligence, organise this large amount of data that users generate. Read and watched Clay Shirky, have since bought his book and have read half the book Di far, love it as it has clarified for me the power of intelligence of the many as opposed to the knowledge of the few (i.e. doctor Karl on JJJ, specialists). Delicious - my initial account was under windandwatedes but I have changed all my user names over to istylesessions or irenesstylesessions. It has taken me a while to let go of my established online identity to adopt this new one. Delicious is one platform that allows us to efficiently to store and file data, all the links to websites that hold information we may wish to find again. Through tagging and creating descriptive stacks we organise this data in delicious. #Web101 stacks was an activity that was required. Http://www.delicious.com/istylesessions RSS feeder - was a little fuzzy initially and went through 2 different types of RSS feeders before settling on FeeddlerPro and have subscribed to web, style and Internet development blogs to receive updates directly to my iPad and iPhone and being able to read it all in one place has made it all very efficient for me. Different applications used on Web 2.0 that we touched on was wiki, blogs, social media I.e twitter and Facebook, Through this reading it was a conference about after the web1.0 bubble and how Web 2.0 would develop. It was interesting the explaination about the difference of marketing and approach between Google and Netscape approaches to its developments. Netscape wanted to keep its power through its privately run servers and people buying their software and high priced server products, as well as a web browser and desktop application. Whereas Google started as a web platform and it's one point of difference is that it wasn't selling to people it was helping people find what they needed and allowed the supplier of those services be the one to pay. Web browsers and servers turned out to be commodities, something of value, so the difference was Netscape wanted to have all the power and keep the information on their servers software, whereas google wanted to harness the information people shared to make it valuable to marketing and the new direction of commerce online business. Longer and greater potential, for even the housewife can become a successful business person, with the ability to market. Google's service is not a server--though it is delivered by a massive collection of internet servers--nor a browser--though it is experienced by the user within the browser. Nor does its flagship search service even host the content that it enables users to find. Much like a phone call, which happens not just on the phones at either end of the call, but on the network in between, Google happens in the space between browser and search engine and destination content server, as an enabler or middleman between the user and his or her online experience. This shows that Google saw the value in their ability to organise data, what the user generated and enable it to be easily found. The value of the software is proportional to the scale and dynamism of the data it helps to manage. It was a comparison of each web1.0 software and web2.0 explaining the differences. This is a great reading to give me insight into how these apps and platforms work, what they are, how they came about and what the strength was that made them successful in Web 2.0, whether they were a carry over or a development born from mistakes of Web 1.0. The importance of permalinks like RSS, by being able to allow people to find your blog but be kept up to date with new entries. Love RSS. Working on how to connect it through my web presence, made a start but got to a dead end will try again tomorrow. Oreilly (2005,1-16) Reading; Wisdom of the Chaperones: This reading is about web diplomacy and it explained the hierarchy of contributors and users who edit wiki and digg. 20% of the people do 80% of the editing and updating and they are all self managed by volunteers given to certain areas and their is ways of tracking changes and by whom. This gave me a great insight into how wiki actually worked as I hadn't thought if it before. Http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2008/02/the_wisdom_of_the_chaperones.single.html Http://www.oreilly.com/webz/archive/what-is-web-20.html Reference for diagram for cloud computing