Sunday 7th March 2010
Web 2.0 is an upgraded version of Web 1.0. When Web 1.0 had first come into the public eye, there was text, html coding and graphics to share information around the world. Today, the public can share information in the form of higher grade graphics, text, css, video and animation.
Ways in which 2.0 is more advanced than Web 1.0 include the following characteristics:
eg: igoogle has upgraded from purely being a search engine to becoming more personalized allowing users to create a homepage with google. This homepage includes options such as special interests, themes, weather, date and time in your location, games, television guide, horoscopes, youtube spotlight videos and the news.
- more ways to communicating information to others
eg: Facebook is a social network that can be accessed from around the world allowing people to keep in touch, meet new people post opinions and thoughts, create events, calendar birthdays and create fan pages. The site offers as much privacy as wanted and is free of charge (excluding games). The extremity of social networks on Web 2.0 was shown to the public when Corey Delaney's party posted on MySpace was made public on all news stations. The party consisted of 300-400 teenagers gathered at his home in Melbourne - later terrorizing the streets.
Tuesday 9th March 2010
- allows community based services such as buying and selling items
eg: Ebay, founded by Pierre Omidyar, is a community based buy/sell website. This site allowed people from all over the world to sell just about anything including the following categories - Antiques, Cars/Car Parts, Computers, Dolls, Music, Real Estate, Coupons, Sporting Goods and even Paper money. The site is easy to use and explains all the terms and conditions if one would like to read them. The design allows for easy access to categories and a search engine with great results.
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