The Changing times......... we have moved on and taught the machines a lot..!
Earlier as we recall using the web was not a necessity.... indeed it was used only by a chosen select group of people. Now it a day to day activity we cant really live without.
Was going through a bunch of technical papers the other day on Web 2.0 and suddenly realized what it means to me ! I felt the vast gap between web 2.0 and the initial web I used like 5 years ago !
Initially web was just a collection of data of text, files, images, videos etc..... a vast collection of some sorts that we used to access information from...
It all began like this
Unlinear text ----linear text----digital text----richtext----hypertext----xml----forms----content and so on !
Initially the webpages were made in HTML which defined the forms..... from there it changed to XML...where content was given more importance !
Slowly it started evolving and learning. in today's world content is more important than the form.
Simply take example of yahoo.... it is ideally 1.0 Google on the other hand is web 2.0. It emerged form being just a search engine to be a a series of applications. It has even emerged to be a standardized platform with the launch on Chrome OS!
The Web is changing it is creating a platform for us... it is becoming intelligent we are training it ...it shows us only relevant information...it filters data suited for our needs...it thinks....its called behavioral targeting... We are gaining a lot but there are lots of costs associated with it !
We are compromising on our Privacy data, on our privacy, our family, life! are we willing to compromise all these to the web ? think !
The new web as i call it is a collection of people....it links the world together we are a closely knit community now ! We just use Facebook or Linked In now to get personal info on ppl!
There are no geographical barriers now ! information gathering and analysis is much more easier compared to the primitive times.... everything that we need is at our finger tips !
We just need to know how to access and use it for our benefit !
Welcome to the World of Web 2.0 !
Welcome to the new web ( connections of people rather than links )
Earlier as we recall using the web was not a necessity.... indeed it was used only by a chosen select group of people. Now it a day to day activity we cant really live without.
Was going through a bunch of technical papers the other day on Web 2.0 and suddenly realized what it means to me ! I felt the vast gap between web 2.0 and the initial web I used like 5 years ago !
Initially web was just a collection of data of text, files, images, videos etc..... a vast collection of some sorts that we used to access information from...
It all began like this
Unlinear text ----linear text----digital text----richtext----hypertext----xml----forms----content and so on !
Initially the webpages were made in HTML which defined the forms..... from there it changed to XML...where content was given more importance !
Slowly it started evolving and learning. in today's world content is more important than the form.
Simply take example of yahoo.... it is ideally 1.0 Google on the other hand is web 2.0. It emerged form being just a search engine to be a a series of applications. It has even emerged to be a standardized platform with the launch on Chrome OS!
The Web is changing it is creating a platform for us... it is becoming intelligent we are training it ...it shows us only relevant information...it filters data suited for our needs...it thinks....its called behavioral targeting... We are gaining a lot but there are lots of costs associated with it !
We are compromising on our Privacy data, on our privacy, our family, life! are we willing to compromise all these to the web ? think !
The new web as i call it is a collection of people....it links the world together we are a closely knit community now ! We just use Facebook or Linked In now to get personal info on ppl!
There are no geographical barriers now ! information gathering and analysis is much more easier compared to the primitive times.... everything that we need is at our finger tips !
We just need to know how to access and use it for our benefit !
Welcome to the World of Web 2.0 !
Welcome to the new web ( connections of people rather than links )
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