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.