Web 2.0 Overview - InspectionNews

Carlos Tabora · #1 (**permalink**) 04-29-2007, 03:25 PM

I have two other major websites being launched during the next 30 days and as such, have had a lot of interaction with web coders and programmers. Too often their tech talk can leave me dazed and confused, but yesterday one of my programmers sent me the following link to a YouTube video. It is a little techy in some spots, but overall it's a good synopsis of the Web 2.0 experience. The coders seem to like it and after watching it a couple of times even I had a better understanding of why coders like Web 2.0 from a programmer's perspective.

Take a look at let everyone know what you think.

YouTube - The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)

Jerry Peck · #2 (**permalink**) 04-29-2007, 05:00 PM

I listened to a report on discussions by those who "invented" (started) the internet by linking two computers together and sending 1s and 0s from one computer to the other computer and creating text transfer.

The internet, world wide web, is overtaxed and uncontrollable, which is why it is so receptive to viruses and the transfer of those viruses, etc., and on-and-on.

The internet needs to be re-built, from scratch, throw everything out and start over, this (as now configured and expanded) was never meant to be as it is now being used and it is miracle the web (internet) has not crashed and burned.

Scientists, data geeks, many people, countries, governments, associations, et al are, AS WE SPEAK, working on designing THE NEXT GENERATION INTERNET ... from scratch.

It will solve bandwidth problems, and that is only one tiny bit of improvement on what will be covered and improved.

I don't know if that is the Web 2 which was referenced or not.

Carlos Tabora · #3 (**permalink**) 05-01-2007, 01:05 PM

Yes, the Internet was first created to be a communication system for the U.S. military, but it has evolved to what it is now. Unfortunately, it will be a very long time before the Internet gets any significant upgrades. The current format is so widely adopted it would take nothing short of a complete Internet meltdown for the current version to be discarded. Much like the MP3 file format, many people (musicians, songwriters, record labels, etc.) wish that it never existed because the digital rights controls were never put in place. Now, even though several companies have tried to introduce a new format, they'll never have the same popularity or widespread adoption that MP3 has. But back to the Internet, companies that have websites built on Web 1.0 are going to milk it for as long as they can before they upgrade. MySpace has a horrible reputation of having one of the worst websites ever built. But with 100 million users, they can't run the risk of overhauling the site and losing millions of users during the transition process. They're actually pretty smart about getting as much revenue as they can now before their site loses all stability. Coders and programmers make fun of the MySpace architecture on a daily basis.