What is web 2.0 and what is important about it to your design career?
“Web 2.0, through its numerous definitions, encapsulates the idea of the proliferation of interconnectivity and interactivity of web-delivered content. Tim O’Reilly regards Web 2.0 as business embracing the web as a platform and using its strengths, for example global audiences”-wikipedia.org
It’s Important as graphic designers, media designers, animators, any business that’s relevant to the daily use of the internet, computer, computer software to CONSTANTLY KEEP UPDATED, or it’s just pointless to be in that field. To be a lagger is just suicide and unemployment, especially in graphic design. Web 2.0 (as pointed out in the chart below *) WILL proceed onto a greater and freer form of internet and we (students, teachers, designers) should be hot on its tracks, or at least try to be. I have to admit, it’s hard to keep up with adobe, can you believe CS4 is already out? I feel like I finally bought C3?!
* to break it down into a more visual approach (for all of us visual learners) I found a formulation of web 2.0 (compared to web 1.0) off of http://www.oreillynet.com (keep in mind, this is only a few differences) enjoy.
| Web 1.0 | Web 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| DoubleClick | –> | Google AdSense |
| Ofoto | –> | Flickr |
| Akamai | –> | BitTorrent |
| mp3.com | –> | Napster |
| Britannica Online | –> | Wikipedia |
| personal websites | –> | blogging |
| evite | –> | upcoming.org and EVDB |
| domain name speculation | –> | search engine optimization |
| page views | –> | cost per click |
| screen scraping | –> | web services |
| publishing | –> | participation |
| content management systems | –> | wikis |
| directories (taxonomy) | –> | tagging (“folksonomy”) |
| stickiness | –> | syndicatio |
