Rex Byron A. Roxas
Book: “Web 2.0”
Quote: “That’s where Web 2.0 started; it was to help people more easily get into services like ours, which are braindead simple to use. So, it has allowed people to have conversations that they wouldn’t necessarily have been able to have.”
Chapter 13
I expect to learn on what Joshua Schachter will have to say about the web 2.0. Some of the authors or most of the authors of the chapter has the same definition about the web 2.0. I think I will expect that Joshua will have the same definition on what web 2.0 is for him.
According to Joshua Schachter while we are reading this book chances are, we are also using the web. It means that we are also a web user. We always have in mind what web 2.0 is for us. And according to him chances are, if we read this book people will probably have few sites of what their favorite is. There are large number of sites, if you visit it more chances that will come it is already your favorite site and you will always come back to the site that you have visited. Most browsers will allow you to create a bookmark or mark a page as a favorite so that you can find it later. Unfortunately, if you have more than one computer, if you are currently not at your computer, or if you are using a different browser within your computer, then using a single browser’s favorites simply doesn’t help you get back to the sites you like, according to this book that I read from this chapter.
Some of the saying of this author is that the answer of your dilemma is to store of your favorite on your web. That is were del.icio.us comes into place.
Joshua Schachter is the founder and creator of the del.icio.us. Yahoo also aquired this application. He also is the director for engineering for del.icio.us. His experience for del.icio.us provides us what the web 2.0 is for us and also provides us great insight on what the web 2.0 is really for us.
He founded del.icio.us in the year 2003, and it is a system for saving bookmarks and finding things you have found previously, organizing those things, and providing short memory for the web itself.
According to him when he started the system, he never thought of having what the web 2.0 really is, and it is not included of his key concept in his vocabulary while building the system that he invented. For him web 2.0 is an artifact of the economic conditions of the ability for people to take passion in a topic and actually implement something. So instead of millions of dollars for java, they were able to build a low cost which is linux sort of environment for building pretty much of anything. This can build in a very low scale when it come in building a system. According to Joshua as a developer or as a member of a community are able to try out lots of idea and many more from the previous because there is a lower transaction cost for trying those things out. It just when you build something you always try out the low cost of a certain system. He build del.icio.us not just because he has a business plan but because he wanted it and he has the capability to build something and the desire to see it happen.
People will always thought of that the web 2.0 is like the AJAX application, but it is not. But there is a little web 2.0 on it, and so is the system, there is also an AJAX on it.
There is also an idea or a concept that fits into the web 2.0 and it’s the idea of a community. But Joshua said he is not sure with the concept. There is a large community in the web before this was topica, yahoo, IM and friendster. But he is not sure if it is really a component on the system or even the concept of the community itself.
And according to him web is all about the data, it is not all about the web or the what contains the web. For him the important feature of the web 2.0 is form him is that, it is not the thing for him because it doest hold. I think economically, the cost of implementation and the cost of failure are so low that were able to prototype and try a lots and lots of things very quickly. Things that work include sites that have community they’re very efficient in terms of cost to produce, that kind of stuff, so he think it all fit in sort of a line. For him he don’t agree with the web 2.0 people kind a misunderstanding about the web 2.0. For him web 2.0 is vaguely defined and vaguely used are true. Then his question is that how can it tell when he or she is not using it correctly.
I have learned that his definition of the web 2.0 is different because it is very difficult for him to define it and to use it because it is rarely vague and it is kind an application that is not connected with the system that he used.
Rex Byron A. Roxas
Book: “Web 2.0”
Quote: “That’s where Web 2.0 started; it was to help people more easily get into services like ours, which are braindead simple to use. So, it has allowed people to have conversations that they wouldn’t necessarily have been able to have.”
Chapter 14
While social networking and video sites are often among the most talked-about sites on the Web, there are a lot of other sites that are also important and growing. One thing that links a lot of these sites is their ability to focus on doing something well.
Yousendith is a site that has a primary focus and they do it well. That focus is transferring of files and information to others. The system has the focus on what they do. You will find that there is a task touches on many of the critical issues that people face in the web itself. This includes sending of information and tracking the information were the information will be sent.
Randith is the fouder of the you sendit application and he is currently responsible of product management and corporate marketing. His experiences prior with yousendit is the application of the verisity and the red hat whre he is an architect of the open source software.
We try to allow data to move freely from one place to another. This is another statement that he said. Yousend it can allow users to send and receive, large files. Files of any size. It primarily cater to businesses and professionals but they have vested in to the consumer based as well.
There are three things that he can say about the web 2.0, first thing is that the web has the ability to connect people and enable collaboration. He allowed data to move very freely from one place to another. He always try out to think of if there is anything going to happen around the conversation or is there anything going to happen around the transfer of data. Some of these activities must be important because it is a good thing for us if the conversation would have a sense on what they are talking about. The system also allows the customer to talk to the other customers. He build an ecosystem of business and services. All of these things are some of the features of the yousendit application. For him yousendit in general is the breadth of the use cases that we see. Things that move through our system start anywhere from geo – seismic data that oil companies are sending around, to crochet patterns. This is something a traditional service constrained by shelf space could’nt address. Those are his favorites.
According to the book that I read, the most important feature that he can consider is the ability for people to easily adopt the services and thus connect to more people and start more conversation. that is where it started. Form me communication is very important for people who is always conversing with other people when we talk about talking or conversing in the retail market itself. the system helps them to be connected. The system provides the companies with all the help that they need with the market itself. and again market is convesing or communicating with one another, about the goods and services that they offer to one another. It also help the people to get use from the services that they need like the services of the yousendit application.
According to the author of this chapter, he thinks that web 2.0 is known in having the conversation among the people who are using the online mode of the transaction itself. he said that he looks at the 80 percent collaborative efforts to happen asynchronously.
What I learned in this chapter is that the web 2.0 is now getting popular of what the system really does for the people who may not know at the system that they use. The web 2.0 for him is like what other author say about the web 2.0. it is like a web who does socializing with other people who also doing socializing things about the other users in the user interface.
Rex Byron A. Roxas
Book: “Web 2.0”
Quote: “Web 2.0 is really about the user experience and not the underlying technologies”
Chapter 15
I expect to learn from this book or from this chapter what will Garrett Camp will have to say about the web 2.0. For me, this book will help us to learn what is the web 2.0 really for us, and it is not all about the things that we are using or browsing today in the internet, its about learning what and how can we use the things that we use in the net in our time today.
According to the book, there is a question that asks how often we receive an email from a collogue or to a friend pointing you to a website that they knew, and they wanted to see them. I can say that a friend will not anymore tell you that you need to look or find the web site by yourself. Is simply you will use the search engine to find the website by yourself because the search engine enables us to search some of the close results of the web sites that we are looking for. But some of the search engine can give us bad results that will result on bad websites. The search engine will just give us bad results that will lead to, maybe a harmful website. I can say that the search engine will try its best to give us the good results that we want to search or what we want to have.
The system that we are now talking about on this chapter is the stumbleupon. The stumbleupon allows us to share those interesting sites that you stumble upon as well as helps you to discover sites others have found. The use of the community, stumble upon enables to gather positive and negative ratings to help those sites that are really good float to the top while others sink out of sight. The overall result is that with a little bit of tagging and categorization, you can quickly find sites that others through worthy of recommending on any given topic. It also created addins for Microsoft internet explorer and firefox.
According to garrett camp its all about the user experience not the technologies. He is the founder and chief product officer for stumbleupon. Since 2001 he has been helping others to share the sites they stumble across the world. The result of this experience helps to provide some interesting insights into web 2.0. he started stumbleupon about six years ago. He is based in Canada and he was doing both stumbleupon and graduate school for four years until the end after the four year when he founded the stumble upon. After graduation he bought the company down to Canada to san Francisco in hanuary 2006 and he reaised some fund. Once we had money, we started to hire people, and we’ve now grown from just 3 to 20 people. According to this man the web becomes a lot more of an interactive platform rather that just a way to buy or read stuff. It means that the web is getting popular and popular through out the years, people will get the internet or to avail the internet rather than buy or read books and stuff. What information that contains the book, it is already in the internet it is all in the online world of the internet. According to this man he is actually not around when the web 1.0 is popular, according to this man he can say about the web 2.0 is an interactive or the web 2.0 is interactive. Sites already have the participation of the users, and there are community elements to it with things like profiles, reviews, ratings and user generated content. He said, in our time it seems like every web site wants to add social or community features on it because they consider it as the most important feature of the said system. He said, the web becomes much more of an interactive platform rather than just a way to buy and read stuff. He defines the web 2.0 as an interactive web site or a socializing web site. This is to sum up the statements that is stated above. People look at it from the technical side with toolkits such as ajax or ruby on rails, but I think those tools developed independently as a way to make pages more interactive and responsive for the users. If it wasn’t for open source, it would have been much harder to get started, according to the statement of garrett. And the interviewer asked garret about how will he react on the people that would say that ajax is web 2.0, he would say that web 2.0 is more of a marketing term than a technology thing. Tim O’reilly first started using it to describe the second wave of the web. And according to him ajax is just one of the central tools that needs to e present at all time in the tool area. But its just not going to be just ajax to be always present in the said statement. There are other toolkits to be followed. The LAMP platform has enabled a lot of it with the low cost of the platform. It seems loke LAMP is the base on which most of the web 2.0 systems are built. It is one of the core technologies that has allowed people to do so much with free tools. Al lot of start ups would not have gotten this far if we had to pay for software or buy database licenses. Lamp stands for , Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. According to this man he believed that the web 2.0 enables an open source. There is a problem with this thing other users never adopted this semantic changes in the web today. Personalized search has not been taking off yet or is still not implemented. And his system it does’nt require a lot of money in using the web. And software as a service is always been a marketing term.
I have learn to day that the web 2.0 is just like the things that the other authors will have to say to them and for me. Web 2.0 is a social system that people will always to have their comments and they will always post it in the platforms that they are using. People will easily react on what will you have to say about what you said. I realize comment of a person never changes and it is a strong opinions for me.
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