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Now playing: Jim Chappell - Baby’s Escapade
via FoxyTunes I’ve been hearing about this hoopla called WEB 2.0 from year last and at last I decided to get that on to my blog just to satiate my more than one pernicious reasons. Everyone must’ve heard about this kind of rara avis with these buzzwords attached as AJAX, mashups, wikis, blogs and offcourse the famous feeds and RSS which are everyone’s way of being updated on the latest action on their fav sites. Lets try, if not wholly to demystify about what this fuss is all about.
The video below has Tim ‘O Reilly himself defining what exactly is a WEB 2.0.
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So, web 2.0 constitutes of blogs, mashups and so on and so forth. Its always been said of guys who don’t try to change with the tide end up left behind. And it ‘d take only a luddite of a guy to not to use the scrumptious theme of things that this technology offers. Lets just try to get a bigger pic of the scheme of things.
Everything on your Desktop:
Using web 2.o is so fantastic that you feel a lot at home its literally kind of using things off your desktop and into your browser. For instance, take the umpteen number of social networking sites like Myspace, Facebook, younoodle and so on which help us to make new friends and also be in contact with our old ones literally just from our hot seat. And if you are getting itchy about a buzz word just google it and there you will have on your screen millions of websites showing you the more info. than you had anticipated and then there is this new thing called cloud computing which gives you access to data from anywhere to anything. So, this is nothing but the morphing of our PC into one big power house of information.
Business networks:
One might’ve well guessed by now, why the WEB 2.o is called Enterprise 2.o. With the rapid proliferation of the companies that are vying to grab the loyality of the customers WEB 2.0 plays a predominant role in not only providing a platform for online advertising but also provide solutions to their customers within hours if not months. Add to these the umpteen of these social networking sites such as Myspace, Younoodle, Facebook, to name a few using which companies can zero in on their customers individually which will help them in establishing a sort of a sentimental connection with their candies and also as most of these companies have their target audience in the age range of 15-35 so its pretty easy to get them on this platform.
Its not only this but few of the social networking sites can even land you a job. Sites like Younoodle and LinkedIn have these resume posting kind of things which a really helpful according to a survey. So, the age where in social networking was for fun or when you might get chided for is a passe and now its vice-versa.
This has also laid a platform for a two-way communication as the CEOs and the top dogs of various organizations are burning in their time to get personal with their customers.
Blogging:
If there is anything that has really revolutionized the internet age is Blogging. Everyone seems to be so smitten by this that you can hardly find any site or for that matter any guy addicted to this wired thing not really having this four letter word in his profile and then add to that various incentives being provided for merely eking out yourself on to the wires that many are just taking this not only as a passion but also as a profession. Log into any site and you will find the employees hitting on the keyboard on multifarious issues ranging from the work culture to the recent movie they’ve been to. Being a passionate blogger myself I’m pretty glad that many companies are actually allowing their employees to blog which is quite contrasting to some companies. I’m pretty happy my company encourages blogging and has indeed recently started a blog to get closer to students.
The proliferation of the blogging sites has seen the growth of wikis which is being advocated by many corporates.
Hacker-Proof:
Many are still quite pessimistic about the way the technology is being used. On one side it is quite intimidating to think about the caveats of hackers and on the other side if left behind it ‘d just be to our own peril. So, everyone is just tending to take on the latter route as the threat of hackers is perennial. Though they are quite concomitant security related issues getting surfaced as time moves on everyone is just as ready as to take on the risk than being edged out by their rivals on the techie front. So, that’s a huge gain point for these sort of services.
And as few companies are still staring into the blue on porting onto web 2.0 the many of the geeky companies who’ve helped themselves away from the luddites have suddenly found themselves caught in the eye of another technological storm called web 3.0.
Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.
Web 3.0 if simplified is nothing but a slight improvement over web 2.0.
In precise terms its a spin-off from the head of Nova Spivack whose Radar Networks is trying to upset another giant. The first product off the radar is the Twine, a tool for collecting and organizing data which is pretty hatke from Google.
An example of how Twine works: A user uploads a text document to their Twine account. Twine then parses the document to find the words with meaning — names, places, concepts and so forth. Those terms become tags, which the person can use to access related information.
Twine’s underlying technology gives the computer a measure of intelligence. Using tags, a computer can distinguish between, say, a reference to the kind of bird that flies and the kind that flips people off. Once it has, it can give users a wealth of other information, drawn from their own accumulated knowledge base, other users and the outside internet. Where Google crawls the entire web and ultimately pollutes your search results with different kinds of “birds,” Radar picks from a smaller universe of sources and tries to automatically discard the ones you don’t want. Having said that, the search is more stream lined when compared to Google as you don’t have to google through a chiliad of sites.
As the companies gear up for web 3.0 I’m quite periliously trying to wade myself through all these technological revolutions and thus trying to see myself clear off these things. Yeah OK! I can hear someone calling me a luddite!
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