Nw that the first burst of enthusiasm for social networking has died, people are realizing that web 2.0 is actually a huge time sink.
Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Plaxo may have helped foster community and communication, but they’ve also added immensely to the flow of often-interruptive messages that their users receive, leading to information overload and possibly a nasty internet addiction.
"We have people calling on a weekly if not daily basis," says Libby
Smith, a corporate clinician for the Illinois Institute for Addiction
Recovery, which helps treat internet addicts. "If somebody engages in the use of an application compulsively, we get calls about it. There isn’t one application that’s good or bad, but if people are unable or unwilling to stop using it, that’s what we look at as a red flag for an intervention."
Counselors who treat "internet addicts" would likely have a heyday at the Web 2.0 Expo, which begins in San Francisco on Tuesday. Ostensibly, the conference is for web designers, marketers and web professionals, but it’s definitely weighted toward businesses that claim to help users and publishers harness data, or the web, to improve efficiency and productivity. Some of the scheduled panels include discussions on how to innovate in a timely manner; ways to make e-mail useful; how to create an effective user interface; ways to optimize a site for search engines; and a session on how to build a flash application in three hours.
Indeed, web 2.0 companies are starting to realize the demands they’re putting on their users. Unfortunately, many of the solutions aimed at mitigating information overload — like Facebook’s ability to import
Flickr, Picasa, Yelp and del.icio.us feeds into its users’ news feeds — only wind up multiplying the amount of news flowing across the screen. Other solutions, like Plaxo’s new desktop notifier, add their own pop-up windows to desktops already cluttered with dialog boxes, instant-messaging windows, updates from RSS feed readers, and e-mail notifications.
Web 2.0 Expo exhibitors will have a wide range of collaboration, communication and "data integration" tools on offer, for end-users as well as web developers. All are hoping to capitalize on social networkers’ diminishing attention spans by providing ways of cramming more information into less time.
But how to avoid information overload at the conference itself? That could be challenging. There are nearly 250 speakers and co-presenters on the schedule; an estimated 9,000 people are expected to attend; and as many as 25 parties (that we’ve heard about) are planned for the 4-day event.
The panels are mostly short and sweet (between 45 to 50 minutes long), but the days are packed. There are at least 9 different sessions for every time slot, and possibly more, since there is also a free sister event, "Web 2Open," a parallel unconference which is happening simultaneously. (Attendees can hop over to Web 2Open to submit an idea for a possible panel, and people use their feet to vote on whether the idea is any good.)
In just one time slot (9:40 a.m. on Wednesday), attendees can listen to a discussion about offline applications, led by guys from Google and Adobe; a session on using "personal informatics" to your advantage (with a discussion led by Dopplr and Yahoo representatives); how to integrate web 2.0 into business; ways to choose domain names to maximize traffic; and how to create a coherent social media strategy. And those are just the most interesting sessions during that time slot.
"We looked at the next wave of applications and tried to find some of the underrepresented skills," says Brady Forrest, co-chair of the conference.
They might have left out the most important skill: Web conference
Happy Blogging,
Raghu...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
What is Web 2.0..??
Oooola,
Let me start straight away by saying that this article would give you an brief idea about the Web 2.0.
I may be sure that many people are still in the hunt for a proper definition of term "WEB 2.0", coined by, Darcy DiNucci in 1999. Come on guys and gals, its no the time to search for definition. I still remember my teachers giving me full marks only if I answer the text book definition, in fact my definition penned down on the my answer sheet was much understable than the one in textbook.
OK, back to business..!! The term Web 2.0 means, The next generation of Web(World Wide Web). That raises the question where is Web 1.0? The answer lies no where, the number system starts from 1.0 which means the Web which existed before 2.0 was nothing other than Web 1.0. So, what made Darcy to actually coin the term "2.0" and then stick it in front of the already familiar term "Web"...? Yes, exactly this is what I would be trying to tell in this article.
This is all due to the change of World Wide Web, and we all know that how much has the Web changed in the past decade. From a very static web page to the most revolutionising dynamism on the Internet today. From weekly updates to the live scores which are as faster as thing are happening in real time.
The web sites which are now called as Web 2.0 are often developed on the technologies which were actually existing in late nineties, but the way of using them to achieve dynamism has changed drastically during this decade. We can say that Web 2.0 as just a buzz word, which incorporated all the latest inventions on the Web as it went along. There are several examples where we can differentiate between "just Web" (or rather Web 1.0) and "Web 2.0", take a simple example between "www.bmsce.ac.in" and "www.facebook.com". Here www.bmsce.ac.in is an official site for one of the renowned educational institution in Bangalore, India. Where you get to know about the college details, admission, departments and courses offered. While in contrast, let us see what Web 2.0 offers us to play with in www.facebook.com, It's a complete social networking site where even BMCE institution is just a small chunk of it, and people can share their view, pictures, videos, comments, like and dislikes and lot more, and more over just not about BMSCE, in fact on all other things, objects, animal and what not on earth.
This is the kind of impact the web has made in the last few years, and this is what is known as Web 2.0
Thank you all guys for you patient reading,
Lot's to come ahead....
Let me start straight away by saying that this article would give you an brief idea about the Web 2.0.
I may be sure that many people are still in the hunt for a proper definition of term "WEB 2.0", coined by, Darcy DiNucci in 1999. Come on guys and gals, its no the time to search for definition. I still remember my teachers giving me full marks only if I answer the text book definition, in fact my definition penned down on the my answer sheet was much understable than the one in textbook.
OK, back to business..!! The term Web 2.0 means, The next generation of Web(World Wide Web). That raises the question where is Web 1.0? The answer lies no where, the number system starts from 1.0 which means the Web which existed before 2.0 was nothing other than Web 1.0. So, what made Darcy to actually coin the term "2.0" and then stick it in front of the already familiar term "Web"...? Yes, exactly this is what I would be trying to tell in this article.
This is all due to the change of World Wide Web, and we all know that how much has the Web changed in the past decade. From a very static web page to the most revolutionising dynamism on the Internet today. From weekly updates to the live scores which are as faster as thing are happening in real time.
The web sites which are now called as Web 2.0 are often developed on the technologies which were actually existing in late nineties, but the way of using them to achieve dynamism has changed drastically during this decade. We can say that Web 2.0 as just a buzz word, which incorporated all the latest inventions on the Web as it went along. There are several examples where we can differentiate between "just Web" (or rather Web 1.0) and "Web 2.0", take a simple example between "www.bmsce.ac.in" and "www.facebook.com". Here www.bmsce.ac.in is an official site for one of the renowned educational institution in Bangalore, India. Where you get to know about the college details, admission, departments and courses offered. While in contrast, let us see what Web 2.0 offers us to play with in www.facebook.com, It's a complete social networking site where even BMCE institution is just a small chunk of it, and people can share their view, pictures, videos, comments, like and dislikes and lot more, and more over just not about BMSCE, in fact on all other things, objects, animal and what not on earth.
This is the kind of impact the web has made in the last few years, and this is what is known as Web 2.0
Thank you all guys for you patient reading,
Lot's to come ahead....
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