Class 3 Readings

What Is Web 2.0
Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software

by Tim O'Reilly

This article give almost the same type of definition of Web 2.0 as last weeks reading, but it explained it a little better in some aspects. It gave examples of applications and how they are evolving into practical application for the Web abs implanting Web 2.0. As the development of the Web continues we will see it evolving into a personal helpful interface for all types of communications. This has lead to free source software and sites like Goggle and Yahoo to name some. The creation of blogs' it has lead to a revolution in software and increased communication between people and companies. It was that we took hold of the wagging tail and held on now we are wagging the dog. It has become a new way to express and communicate with each other.

The New Wisdom of the Web
NEWSWEEK Updated: 6:39 PM ET Oct 15, 2007

This article goes into how Web 2.0 has come about by the different entrepreneurs in the development of the "living Web". I t goes from MYSPACE to YOU TUBE as places that people can share different things with each other. This article shows how it has effected use in our lives on the Web. As it is stated "Cyberspace was somewhere else. The Web is where we live." and this is true.

Social Bookmarking

I Like this article because it shows how a teacher can use the Web to distribute their selected Web sites to the students and in return the student can post additional sites for the teacher and piers.

Class 2 Reading Response

Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog

In this article within the blog called “The Social Graph Issues and Strategies in 2008”, it gives good examples of how interlocking cells or people can have a direct relationship along with an indirect relationship. The author’s has broken down of a Social Graph Examples that have cleared up some question that I have had about Web 2.0. I can now see the complete interaction a person with another person that can evolve into a group by using Web 2.0 techniques.

Web 2.0 for Beginners by Mike Stopforth

Seeing how “Web 2.0 for Beginners” also showed how the Web had to change and create a new interface for the internet along with make it more usable for the end user. With the user being the center of the net, something had to change and was the Web. The changing of the Web 2.0 had to come alive and become more user friendly and orientated toward the human side of the user. With the humanification of the Web, humanification of the Software also had to take place. Now with some new software that works with the user and not against the user, Web 2.0 is about play as stated by the author. As hardware items progress, they have become more and more user friendly they become popular; such items are the iPod, iPhone and the new MAC computers. In the software are there are programs such as Podcast, with both audio and video, streaming video for the users use on Wed sites like YouTube and iTunes do a very good job of using Web 2.0 for applications. There are also many applications others a user can choose from and applications the user can use to create their own Wed site for others to use with a friendly interface.