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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

 

Is Web 2.0 done, or is it better then ever?

Well the answer to that question would be yes, simply because of its name…"web 2.0", it leaves the door open for a web 3.0 and so on. But that’s what this digital revolution is about right?, change and better products or applications taking the place of old ones. Web 2.0 is a term that is hard to define but can be used to describe the web as it is today and in the future. The Internet is not the same as it was ten years ago, or even five years ago. There are new ways to download and upload and view media content on the web. Its bigger faster and stronger you could say. And this is constantly being improved and changed.

So the idea of “web 2.0” is the next generating of Internet and its uses. Consider myspace, facebook, and other social networking sites as web 2.0 and anything before that as web 1.0. All web 2.0 means is it’s an improvement to the way people use the Internet. Web 2.0 not only shapes the online world, but also has a very direct effect on the outside world as well. You Tube for example has recently gotten into politics, and whale not showing any loyalty towards anyone side, it has listed all the online debates of all the candidates so that the You Tube generation can view them.

Just a few years ago MTV was telling kids to rock the vote, and now even MTV is somewhat not appealing to the youth of this country, because the youth of this country is online. And social networking sites can reach more young voters then anything else today.

“While the "first Internet President" has yet to be elected—and the Internet may not be the deciding factor in the 2008 election—it's clear to senior people within several campaigns that social networking is the only way for them to reach a segment of the population that politicians have generally ignored in the past.” (Gallagher, Web 2.0, changing politics forever)

Web 2.0 is faster and more interactive then the past and offers companies a new way into the consumer and offers the political campaigns a new way to attract supporters. The only question is, web 2.0 came after the first web 1.0, so logic would tell us that there is a web 3.0 out there. How far away from that are we?

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posted by S. Colgan @ 10:19 PM permalink
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A very good post and links.

The Web 2.0 concept is a bit ambiguous but it does have some uses. Social networking is a key part of this next generation of online interaction.

Politics is changing to reflect these new tools of communication and interaction.

Yes, there is already a discussion of web 3.0 but hopefully it will have a different name soon.
# posted by Blogger A. Mattson : 2:23 PM
 
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