Rex Byron A. Roxas

Book: “Web 2.0”

Quote: “The most important thing is that even though we felt in the ’90s that the Internet was having a big impact in people’s lives, we’re seeing in this decade that it’s reconstructing a lot of industries and shifting a lot of value around while improving people’s lives.”

Chapter 16

I expect to learn from this chapter of what the web 2.0 is for Rodrigo Madanes. Would he say about the same things like the other authors described the web 2.0. Would he consider the web 2.0 as a social application in the net? As a read this chapter, I will learn things that what Rodrigo will have to say about the web 2.0. I also expect to learn, how his company is connected with the web 2.0.

Skype is considered as a web 2.0 application, according to this chapter that I read. But the things is its web site is only a minor part of the web 2.0. according to this book Skype is used to make phone calls to other people through the use of a person to person technology. You can also use the application to other users as well.  the application has made it easy to call other people on a regular phone or even to a cellular phone. This has made easy to other people no matter where in the world they are living.

Skype is founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Since that time, Rodrigo Madanes joined the group, who lead the product strategy of the company. And according to this chapter he is also the one that you can talk to about the web 3.0. Skype is a piece of software that people can use to talk for free, one of the feature that the skype has is they can even video call with each other. Most of the people are familiar with this application. Rodrigo is a technologist he is in the industry for almost 15 years, and according to him he did his phd in a flavor of human interaction, so he is been studying people on how they use the computer. His job in skype is doing product design, it is involved in making the application friendlier to use. That is one of the big innovation that the website has, internet calling is one of the thing that is easy to use.  his job was simply taking the products were it should be.

For him web 2.0 is a complex set of technologies and enablers, and according to him the best definition will come about the resurgence of web innovation after the dotcom bust in 2002.  It was a great part triggered by some technologies and the critical mass of broadband users around the world. That is lead to the ability to have a greater communication among people, watching videos, very interactive web pages,n and many more. Broadly speaking it is a resurgence in the web innovation. According to madrigo it is the only thing that the innovation that are listed. The innovation is focused on the interaction between the people who are communicating.  It is the ability to share the things that uses to communicate is like having the social tools. Is focuses on the rich interaction among the people who are users.

According to Rodrigo the components of having the web 2.0 are the AJAX , AIR and the FLASH. These kinds of components contributed to the making of the web 2.0. but the web 2.0 is the result with a critical mass of people with broadband, enabling technologies, large investments and start ups and also the combination of low-cost, open source packages that enable these start ups to accelerate very quickly, all of these things led to the transformation in the industries of telecommunication, advertising and television.

According to Rodrigo telecommunication is at the beginning of what will be a longer transformation. And according to him the most important thing about the web 2.0, even though he felt in the 90’s that the internet was having the big impact in people’s lives, he’s seeing in this decade its reconstructing a lot of industries and shifting a lot of value around while improving people’s lives. And these are large industries that are being constructed. According to him, one of the reasons why he loves to work and he likes his work is that the benefits that are involved. It also gives an opportunity to improve the performance of the consumers around the industry. And for him telecommunication is at the beginning of what be a longer transformation. One of the reasons why Rodrigo wants to work at Skype is that the benefits are real, some of the talking are in videos. It is how people maintain their relationship even though across the country.

I have learned that the web 2.0 is also connected to the other chapter of the book because it also talks about people who is related of giving out information across the world. For him the web 2.0 involves the technology that it is in the web today online conversation is somehow related of what Rodrigo is talking about.

Rex Byron A. Roxas

Book: “Web 2.0”

Quote: “Web 2.0 is about how businesses are changing, how people are collaborating, and how people are unlocking content to be used in new and innovative ways through customization, at orders of magnitude of less cost than they’ve ever had before.”

Chapter 17

I expect to learn what Rod Smith will will have to say about the web 2.0. and I also expect to learn what IBM has to do in the popularity of the web 2.0. Will Rod will have a same definition about the web 2.0 or will he have a different description of what the web 2.0 means to him.

IBM stand for International Business Machines and is a name that is been around in the world of the computer industry for a very long time. The IBM company incorporated many years ago. IBM focuses on many areas including the products and services that they offer.  The company is well known to its mainframe arena and it is also been a big proponent  of open source, Linux and many more. It will also take an entire book to describe what IBM has done and what they do now. And it is also a company that is open for questions to be asked in terms of the new technology that is available.

Rod Smith is the IBM Vice president of the said company. According to Rod, Blogs, wikis, innovative sites, like Wikipedia and google maps are going to change the way that productivity applications are developed.

According to Rod he leads the emerging internet technology initiatives at IBM, and before he became the Vice president of IBM, he was also the CTO of Java and was thinking to help grow java from the language into an open middle ware platform that would garner broad industry adoption.  Some of his teams also involved in Open source, particularly through the apache foundation, and open standards around application and data interoperability,  there were early innovators of XML, providing the early,  W3C, standard based parser of an apache project.  This then evolved into working on open distributed computing standards and technologies, such as soap, which evolved into web Services.

Rod Smith would define the web 2.0 is close to the definition of the O’reilly. It is the intersection of social changes, economic changes and technology changes. That is what make the web 2.0 elusive. And according to him, it hasn’t been about one technology, it is about how businesses are changing, how people are collaborating, and how people are unlocking content to be used in the new innovative ways, much faster and simpler than ever before.  

Today businessman are discovering emergent business opportunities and asking how they can harness these opportunities quickly to add new value.  Web 2.0 has a potential that offers in terms of the mash – ups, for example, where the domain experts collaborate and assemble new business solutions in days or weeks, especially of people who are in line of business and IT people.  As businesses men they put up barriers toward quick innovations. Business wants the same kind to create Culture and capabilities web 2.0 is enabling inside the enterprises.

According to Rod, today, with web 2.0 we can come back to vendors, quickly engage them with business level. Now we are now seeing it in the line of business, it is now involve of creating businesses a successful thing to do.

I have learned that the web 2.0 for rod involves the progress of the IT users. Rod has also the same definition of the web 2.0 like the other author does. And according to Rod, many businessman will benefit the use of it when it comes with the line of their businesses.

Rex Byron A. Roxas

Book: “Web 2.0”

Quote: “Enterprises want to take advantage of the social and collaborative aspects of Web 2.0 but don’t necessarily want the business models of Web 2.0 shoved down their throat.”

Chapter 18

I expect to learn what Tim Harris will have to say about the web 2.0. Will he have the same definition like the definition or the description of the other authors will he have the same thing as well as the other authors? How can he connect the company to the web 2.0? how did his company contributed to the web 2.0 itself?

Microsoft is the company that nearly everyone in the modernized world has heard mentioned. And I can say it is one of the world’s most popular companies. Microsoft internet explorer, means that anyone working with web  2.0 or the web in general is also likely to be fully aware of Microsoft. While there are some that might say that a pre web company can’t fully understand the web 2.0, there are more that are likely say that the company like Microsoft will be involved in any major, current technology.

According to this book, Microsoft is showing itself as a big player in the world of the web 2.0 and also in the market itself. as a tool maker, they have developed some of the key tools of people are sing to develop web 2.0 sites. This includes the asp.net AJAX control tool kit and asp.net AJAX extensions. A new tool also provided by Microsoft also considered as the web 2.0. This is Popfly, in this application; you can use an interactive web site to develop your own site or to create a mash – up using building blocks created from other sites. Most importantly you can create from other website and you can also share your creations.  Microsoft is also known as the web 2.0 site. However is Live Search.  This portal is a starting point for a number of feature that are generally considered web 2.0. On live Search, you can find mail, messaging, blogging, and many other social features.

According to Tim Harris the web 2.0 is the technology pillar were people are talking about things like RSS, Asp.net AJAX and technologies for building web sites and web applications. And there is the business model pillar and it talks about the fact that business models have become inextricably linked to the software and so of the most of the advertising model and all kinds of subscription models and other business software depending on the delivery of the users.  The last pillar would have to do with people who have the tendency to talk about the social contracts.  People also have the tendency to put web 2.0 in the browser bucket, and say that if it is not running in a browser it is not a web 2.0.

Microsoft has developed a lot of tools and it also contributed to the existence of the web 2.0. It also helps us to identify which of the generation are we into and it will also help us to learn how to use some of the tools that Microsoft had supplied for us. I have learned that the web 2.0 is also the same thing that the other author is also talking about. And I learned that all of the definition of the web 2.0 is simply a socializing application.