steLLLa 2.0

Dear Anna, dear other friends interested in the wiki,
I want to comment a little bit your latest additions. What is Web2.0.

In my opinion, what you have written there is the describtion of another term, so-called social software. Social software summarises the applications like wiki, blog, twitter etc.

In my opinion Web2.0 is defined as follows:
Web2.0 is a term expressing the recently appearing new perception of the Web becoming visible through applications, portals and webservices supporting social interaction of users, decentralised information provision and crosslinking of on a high degree.

This definition is a little more general. However it doesn't change our practical work in the project and following I havn't tried to adapt your definition in the wiki.

If there is now a Web2.0, what have been in the time before, what is Web1.0 and what will come, Web3.0?
In Web1.0 we had a central technical development: the invention of the HTTP and HTML. In Web2.0 we don't have such a new technical invention (except from AJAX and RSS.) Web2.0 is another **PERCEPTION** of the Web because the Web became available everywhere. What is very important and already written in your wiki definition: the crosslinking property. The people just thought what to do now with so much internet and they started to develop applications that **crosslink everything**: ideas, people, content, locations etc.

Something that we could add in the wiki are some more general trends:
- The web becomes a service platform: what you have had before as standalone application on a single computer now becomes available in the Web, so available whereever you have a Web connection and a web browser.
- The web becomes to a "Live Space": it is easier to keep information actual and when you update one information in the web many connected other websites, services etc. are updated too.
- The Web invites for participation: the user is no longer a consumer in the Web only but also a producer of information.
- The Web becomes to a "Social Space": meaning you can communicate, collaborate or even define yourself in an easier way.
- The Web becomes more intelligent: applications use the knowledge of the masses meaning many brains together know more than a single brain.

So, finally what does this all mean for us, for the people dealing in our project now? What do you think? I'm curious about it.

Volker

Dear all,

in my view, Web 2.0 is a broader term with multiple 'channels' and many dimensions: one of them being close to ieducation in its social context: communication and collaboration - that is, close to the scope of this project.
If i was to write in a wiki targeted to computer or network engineers i would have focused to its relation with cloud computing, for example.
In any case, i agree with what you say, i.e the following:

"Something that we could add in the wiki are some more general trends:
- The web becomes a service platform: what you have had before as standalone application on a single computer now becomes available in the Web, so available whereever you have a Web connection and a web browser.
- The web becomes to a "Live Space": it is easier to keep information actual and when you update one information in the web many connected other websites, services etc. are updated too.
- The Web invites for participation: the user is no longer a consumer in the Web only but also a producer of information.
- The Web becomes to a "Social Space": meaning you can communicate, collaborate or even define yourself in an easier way.
- The Web becomes more intelligent: applications use the knowledge of the masses meaning many brains together know more than a single brain."

Dear Anna,
thank you for adding some of the trend aspects regarding Web2.0 to the wiki.

There was another question on the end of my last contribution. I ask what the emergence of Web2.0 means for our personal life now, or for our project. The answer is not given in one short phrase only and therefore we could open a new thread for this later.

What I want to add now are some more thoughts regarding the Web2.0. Is the "new" Web, the Web2.0 so easy or is it connected to any new challenges? Sure, in my opinion it is! How about the following?

Challenges in Web2.0
* Assurance of the quality of the content in the Web: the possebility of de-centralised contributions demands confidence but also possebilities of de-centralised quality supervision. Or in easier words: do you trust on everything written in Wikipedia or every page that google lists? The users have to learn to check twice and more and not to stop own thinking. And we need some new methods and procedures to check the quality, for instance in Wikipedia.
* Examination of the problem of digital devide: when more and more things of the dayly life happen in the new Web, what will the people do who don't have access to the Web. What happens here is social exclusion of people from important parts of the social life. We have to think about this (and for sure there are some EU projects regarding this.)
* Convergence of media: It is possible in Web2.0 to connect every media, but is it also useful seen from the users point of view. The user has to work with all the media then what can bring confusion and overload effects. We still have to find out what media are mre usedful when they are connected and what I should keep seperate instead.
* Control of complexity: close to the point before, how much complexity of a wired application is reasonable?
* Radicalness of applications: Are we already on the end of the Web2.0 development? No! So it is a challenge to develope new applications with the new emerging possebilities.

What do you think? Do you want to add more?

Volker

Here you are a explanation of Web2.0 in pictures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc0oDIEbYFc&feature=player_embedded
Enjoy!

How simple an explanation can be

Dear Volker,

 

i just saw your post on 26/02/2010, somehow i have missed it.

I have added the challenges you propose, to the corresponding term in the wiki.

Thank you very much, do you have any suggestions about references that relate with these challenges?

 

Cheers,

Anna