Web 2.0
Wow, what a concept, I had only ever heard of web 2.0 on myspace, when they decided to change around their layouts and I could not figure out how to do it. Though listening to the lecture on Tuesday, it all started to make sense to me about how it works and what I am to expect. A few of the words mentioned to describe the next generation of web design are, usability, design, standardisation, folksonomies, simplicity, microformats, open APIs and data driven. These words got me thinking about how we use the web and what we expect it to do. How instead of the net only being a place where people go and “look” it is now a place where people are encouraged to add their own things, talk about what interest them and general information that someone across the world might be wondering the same thing. It brings the world closer together by the means of communication and with the new format of web 2.0 it will keep the web in some sort of order, simple and easy to understand for majority of people.
A study was conducted in 2006 and there were officially 1 billion users online with 80,000,000, using the web on a daily basis. In contrast the same study was carried out in 1996 and there were only 45million users and 250,000 sites to be accessed. When hearing this news, it made me think about when I first started using the web, and I came to the conclusion that it would have been around 2001/2 where it was being used as a enjoyment and recreational rather than just receiving and sending e-mails.
In the tutorial we talked about social media and its effect on the world, both in reality, by looking at the idea of privacy and in cyberspace where people say things that they would never say in person. They get a certain thing about them and ruin the well run forums that millions of people in the world participate in every day. We also looked at big companies, like facebook and myspace and how they contribute to the internet, a massive social network. As well as just talking about web 2.0 in general and what as a collective we knew and understood about the new concept of the internet.
Web 2.0 is architecture of participation - providing service, not a product, encouraging user contribution, using a collective intelligence, and making the web easy to re-use and re-make. This change was to also make sure that the user experience was easy to use, pleasurable, rich in social network and by improving web applications and interfaces, making then just that more readily available and easy to use.
So therefore, I think once most people start to understand the concept of web 2.0 I think it will be a hit and more people will wonder how they ever handled web 1.0!
BYEEEE
