Friday, January 25, 2008

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.