The answer to my topic question is debatable:
The two "extreme" sides of the debate are the following:
(1) Web 2.0 is nothing but a marketing ploy by the dot-coms. (Wikipedia Discussions, 2007)
(2) Web 2.0 is a turning point for the internet where the internet is controlled by the user rather than the "alpha geeks". (Wikipedia Discussions, 2007) (O'Reilly, 2007)
Here are some websites that I have explored in trying to answer the topic question:
Tim O'Reilly - What is Web 2.0?
Tim O'Reilly is what a lot of people of the technological world would consider the father of Web 2.0. O'Reilly has a vision that he wanted the internet to be used by everyone. The old internet 1.0 was seemed to be controlled by the big dot-com companies. They tend to focus on a control aspect and not necessarily a community collaborative aspect. He shows a really complex, yet, neat visual of what he sees his vision of web 2.0. On this site, he also has his own blog in which people are allowed to comment on his work. He even sees the reason why people would say it is a marketing ploy. Almost to the point of agreeing with him. O'Reilly states that the article is more of a clarification of what it is and that people are so stuck on the economics and not on the final product. Albeit complicated, O'Reilly makes a very decent attempt to clarify his view of what Web 2.0 is. This is no way a Web 2.0 for dummies. Also, O'Reilly does not really go into detail of what benefits it has for society and education.
Wikipedia Article - Web 2.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
(downloaded as of 4:45pm on 7/16/2007: Article Subject to Change)
This is the where the debate centralizes. Especially, if you click on the discussion tab (more on this in a later post!). This article tries to give a clearer "unbiased" view. This article is frequently visited and change as you will see if you click on the history. Although about 50% of the changes is cosmetic it really does show the debate between the two sides. This is a great central hub to get an idea of how the "Web 2.0 Define" debate goes.
Web 2.0 Essay by Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html
Paul Graham is a programmer who received his doctorates from Cornell. Writes many essays for view online as well for many monthly magazines. He simplifies Web 2.0 into three descriptions.
(1) Java now is easy to use - Called Ajax
(2) Democracy - The fact that ordinary people can surpass the experts. He uses wikipedia as his example
(3) That the start-up companies doing this phenomenon do not maltreat their users. In other words, they open their product (open source) for them to edit to their likings.
I feel that Paul Graham is over simplifying and have his own agenda and is focused on the technical/business aspect rather than what good is it for the society.
G02Web20.net
http://www.go2web20.net/
This site list all the sites that have been labeled web 2.0 as suggested to by the public and approved by two people. One is Orli Yakuel who used to work for AOL (more on this later in the article.) as a Web 2.0 Analyst. The other is a gentleman by the name of Eyal Shahar, who is the vice president of a virtual and visual architecture firm in Israel called Mantis.
At the current check, there were 1,374 sites listed on this directory (and I want to try every single one of them!) . Some I have visited before, like Myspace and Digg. Others, I have never heard of in my life. This site may give you good ideas of what determines a site to be web 2.0.
All these sites that I have visited so far are great sites. However, I do not see the true answers to the following question:
What makes a site a web 2.0 site? I think this project of exploring the power of it does answer that question. The final link kind of got me going in a direction of the answer to this question:
You Tube - Web 2.0 is Us/ing Us?
Michael Wesch, a Cultural Anthropology Professor
from Kansas State explore how we have evolved from just writing paper on text all the way up to the sharing of information. Towards the end of the video he poses some rethinks which I think will truly answer the question of the power of web 2.0. (Which reminds me I need to create one more purpose for this blog. To answer the question: "What makes web 2.0 so powerful?")
So the check list for the next post:
(1) Make edit of my purpose.
(2) Create links to my colleagues blogs
(3) Select the thee Web 2.0 sites that I will explore their power, educational use, and their techonological features.
Good Night!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
(downloaded as of 4:45pm on 7/16/2007: Article Subject to Change)
This is the where the debate centralizes. Especially, if you click on the discussion tab (more on this in a later post!). This article tries to give a clearer "unbiased" view. This article is frequently visited and change as you will see if you click on the history. Although about 50% of the changes is cosmetic it really does show the debate between the two sides. This is a great central hub to get an idea of how the "Web 2.0 Define" debate goes.
Web 2.0 Essay by Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html
Paul Graham is a programmer who received his doctorates from Cornell. Writes many essays for view online as well for many monthly magazines. He simplifies Web 2.0 into three descriptions.
(1) Java now is easy to use - Called Ajax
(2) Democracy - The fact that ordinary people can surpass the experts. He uses wikipedia as his example
(3) That the start-up companies doing this phenomenon do not maltreat their users. In other words, they open their product (open source) for them to edit to their likings.
I feel that Paul Graham is over simplifying and have his own agenda and is focused on the technical/business aspect rather than what good is it for the society.
G02Web20.net
http://www.go2web20.net/
This site list all the sites that have been labeled web 2.0 as suggested to by the public and approved by two people. One is Orli Yakuel who used to work for AOL (more on this later in the article.) as a Web 2.0 Analyst. The other is a gentleman by the name of Eyal Shahar, who is the vice president of a virtual and visual architecture firm in Israel called Mantis.
At the current check, there were 1,374 sites listed on this directory (and I want to try every single one of them!) . Some I have visited before, like Myspace and Digg. Others, I have never heard of in my life. This site may give you good ideas of what determines a site to be web 2.0.
All these sites that I have visited so far are great sites. However, I do not see the true answers to the following question:
What makes a site a web 2.0 site? I think this project of exploring the power of it does answer that question. The final link kind of got me going in a direction of the answer to this question:
You Tube - Web 2.0 is Us/ing Us?
Michael Wesch, a Cultural Anthropology Professor
from Kansas State explore how we have evolved from just writing paper on text all the way up to the sharing of information. Towards the end of the video he poses some rethinks which I think will truly answer the question of the power of web 2.0. (Which reminds me I need to create one more purpose for this blog. To answer the question: "What makes web 2.0 so powerful?")
So the check list for the next post:
(1) Make edit of my purpose.
(2) Create links to my colleagues blogs
(3) Select the thee Web 2.0 sites that I will explore their power, educational use, and their techonological features.
Good Night!
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