What’s the big deal about Web 2.0?
Web 2 world.
- Myspace and Youtbe especially.
Briefly- It’s the convergence of all different types of Media- TV on the web- people have so many options that they are not bothering to watch TV.
Web 1
This works on the principle of this module. There is one main server giving the information, whilst the clients are receiving it, but not feeding back to any other person apart from the main server.
Web 1 hasn’t dramatically changed, as when we request web pages, downloads and images we are still getting information from a main server of that information.
Html – why it’s been successful
- Its simple- can create a small working website unlike other programmes.
- If you make a mistake it will still work
- Anybody can create html from a word document, it’s not complicated and is available over a global mass population. This is the reason why we have so many sites on the internet, with people posting up their own knowledge of information.
The internet used o just be about getting information and resources, but now it’s all about money and people making a living from people who join certain sites or even when shopping online. The internet now is less of a source for information and more of a social networking and business orientated development.
Web 1
As part of the course we created a simple web 1 constructed website. It is very basic and is only really to present information to a client.
Web 2
Whereas web 2 has more options for the client to adjust as well as gain the information. On web 2 websites there are holding templates and you can move things around and arrange everything to the way that best suits you. WordPress is a prime example of a website that allows users to do a variety of things. On WordPress you can insert RSS to your favorite sites e.g. Ted.com, Flickr and YouTube. By subscribing to different sites that you’re interested in, it will appear in your Google search bar. This meaning that the web 2 is making us the provider rather than the consumer of information.
After watching this video it has made me realise how important blogging is within web 2. It is a way of gaining feedback from a group of people who share the same interests as you. As new blogs can be posted each day, it sends old posts to the bottom, making new posts easy to access, this way people can keep up to date with the most recent news. I think this is a good way with sharing information with people all over the world, if people keep using this blogging network , I do feel that people won’t tend to watch the news, read newspapers, magazines or watch the TV in general.
Using the Wayback machine
By entering the BBC 1997 we can see how the website has changed from a simple web 1 to a more useful web 2 site. The bbc.co.uk website in 1997 had a brochure but not a service , at didnt have a great deal of information. Now when we go onto the BBC website we can customise our pages to how we like it. We can decide what categories and stories we want to see. There is audio on the site, podcasts and blogs.
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