Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Understand Web 2.0
I found an article that gave me a great understanding of what web 2.0 is all about. The article titled, "What Is Web 2.0 Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software" gave the breakdown of the difference between web 1.0 and web 2.0. Web 2.0 is more user friendly and relies more on active participation from it's users. During the web 1.0 era, the focus was more toward big businesses.
"The Web 2.0 lesson: leverage customer-self service and algorithmic data management to reach out to the entire web, to the edges and not just the center, to the long tail and not just the head."
The article give examples of how much web 2.0 needs people to work together to make the internet a better place. They talk about blogging and other ways people can transfer information around the net. "Web 2.0 principle: the service automatically gets better the more people use it."The author also talked about RSS which was something that I had never heard of. RSS is how people recieve notifications of updates to different websites. Kind of like when you recieve news updates or new gossip.
"RSS allows someone to link not just to a page, but to subscribe to it, with notification every time that page changes. Skrenta calls this "the incremental web." Others call it the "live web"."
I hope my understanding of this article is correct and I'm glad to have learned something new.
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A very good post. You have mentioned a few of the key concepts of Web 2.0.
RSS is a useful tool for making distribution more efficient and demand driven. It is one tool that makes the information overload created by the web just a bit more manageable.
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RSS is a useful tool for making distribution more efficient and demand driven. It is one tool that makes the information overload created by the web just a bit more manageable.
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