[Athen] Looking for Info on Web 2.0

[Pratik Patel]

Aside from the social aspects that Stacy pointed out, web 2.0 is more of a
marketing term (my opinion, of course) originally coined by Tim O'Reilly.
Here is an article that attempts to clarify the term from the O'Reilly Media
perspective.  Of course, as terms such as these go, they take on their own
lives once they're released, much to Tim O'Reilly's Chagrin
(http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.
html). The definition of the term is based on the use of various underlying
technologies as opposed to updates in those technologies.  That is exactly
why it is a bit contraversial.  Pure technologists regard the usage of web
2.0 as fluff.  The movement toward social content creation by involving the
power of the masses is quite revolutionary;  and, even more important,
technologies and systems represented by this movement are much less costly
than the first generation of web content.  As to the accessibility of these
systems, well that's a mix bag.  ... 

Pratik

 

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Ron Stewart
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:46 PM
To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'
Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking for Info on Web 2.0

Boy what planet have I been hiding on.

Ron 

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Stacy L. Smith
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 2:38 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network; Prof Norm Coombs
Cc: athen at athenpro.org
Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking for Info on Web 2.0

Dr. Coombs -

Put loosely, web 2.0 refers to the social interactivity of the web. 
With web 1.0, people were observers; consumers.  In web 2.0, we are
creators of content.  We have social networking, and people responding
to one another and creating content in a way that is very new.

Take YouTube, for example.  Say someone writes a song and records
themselves playing.  Another person likes the song and records
themselves playing along and posts it....or writes a song that is
inspired by the original and posts it.  These vidoes are interlinked,
and an intereaction has occurred.  Also, people can post responses and
interact in this way.

Then we have Wikis, MySpace, FaceBook, blogs, etc.

An anthropoloy professor at K-State has become very well known recently
for a YouTube video he created for YouTube that became the most viewed
video for a while.  It explains web 2.0. Unfortunately, it is not
accessible.  For those of you who are interested, the link is: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

The professor's name is Michael Wesch and his email is: 
mwesch at k-state.edu  .  Perhaps he would be interested in answering more
questions.

Hope this helps -

Stacy


Quoting Prof Norm Coombs <norm.coombs at gmail.com>:


> I am hearing people talking about Web 2.0.  I only have the vaguest

> idea of

> what they are talking about.  I am looking for information.  I am

> also

> looking for a recommendation of someone who could discuss Web 2.0 on

> a

> Webinar in the near future.

> Norm Coombs

> norm.coombs at gmail.com

> or

> nrcgsh at rit.edu

>

>

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Stacy Smith
Adaptive Technology Specialist, Disability Support Services
532-6441
stacylee at ksu.edu

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