Whats going on with Web 2.0
September 21st, 2008 · Filed Under: What's going on with Web 2.0
You’ve got friends, comments, picture galleries, favorites, videos - basically, it has all the features of MySpace. In this department, Care2 is way ahead of the pack. Look at the YouTube design - right there on the right are links to other related videos and the top level navigation is light weight and focused around aggregations or list views. The technology enables the broadcast of TV-quality video over the Internet, and allows people to stream real TV programs from networks like MTV and National Geographic. It also features search, chat and instant messaging, built right into the interface.
I have to confess, however, that I do rather like some of the entries on fictional characters in Wikipedia. The entry, for example, on one my fictional heroes, George Smiley , the sad little man at the heart of John Le Carre’s best novels, is excellent and it actually is little bit longer in length than the entry about Le Carre himself. In most mediated communities of Web 2.0 services, such as the monitoring of papers in Wikipedia, collective rules are self-organized on the basis of user contributions. The rise of tagging practices can be seen as the best illustration of this tendency. Something new from the Labs : “Wikipedia? is a conversion of the monthly wikipedia database dump into RDF. While it has always been our test dataset of choice, its wealth of information created by thousands of people all over the world also opens up new perspectives when put into a Semantic Web format: How to not (again) put structure or ontology, but people and their data first.
If you’re looking for a restaurant recommendation or product review, for example, their bookmarking history and annotations are very useful input. If your friends actually use it, this becomes an essential way to search the web. Baseline asks, “Do you want to combine something that is available on a public Web site with your corporate data, a private Web site (such as your LinkedIn or Facebook account) or something on your hard disk? Facebook is out in the open as a tool. If we don’t provide the tools, the world will seek out collaboration tools.
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