Web 2.0 Revolution

As I get into the Web World a bit more I keep hearing Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is coming be ready. Hey your Web 2.0 Awesome!

Well lets talk about WTF Web 2.0 is. Basically it's a dynamic internet where content of the web is created in a dynamic fashion using stuff like Podcasting, Video Blogging, Blogging, AJAX, Flash, RSS and just all this content being created by users for users.

So how have I applied Web 2.0 in my life? Well tonight we were having a Final Review and we had a study guide. So I typed out the study guide using Writely.com and then shared the document with everyone in the class who took my work and made corrections to the study guide and in a matter of 30 mins we had a study guide with all the answers in a correct fashion that was created by everyone in the class. Now using a website that was dynamic we had a system setup for everyone to have access to a document that everyone created.

In the old times we would have created a word document and then sent it off to everyone and then we take all the documents and form one document. A huge annoying process that was eliminated tonight. Now that I got everyone on Writely we can create documents and share them and have access to information and notes for whatever we need.

WeatherMole here is another cool Web 2.0 product using Google Maps API you can click anywhere on this map and get the weather and weather forecast. No navigating you just click and your done. Totally Free and just an all around awesome idea.

del.icio.us This is my favorite addiction online social bookmarking. I find a link I add it to my page. Add some tags to organize it I can see who else has linked this document and then see what they liked and just have a giant access to information.

Frappr.com This is also a really cool site you get a visual map out of where your friends are and pictures and messages and blogs all together on one site. It has RSS Feeds and you can join groups and get a visual map of where everybody is and see who is close to you and chat with them totally fucking cool if you ask me.

Digg.com This is a pretty cool idea links that are cool get voted up by the users and it's a news site that is not run by editors but the users of the site. Very Sexy Idea to me.

ytmnd.com This is a pretty cool idea user made pages of animation and music they are short and funny. I haven't really played with this site but I like the idea.

YouTube and Google Video Now Web2.0 here we go. Users can record video upload it and share it. It's made easy and this is really cool.

Now there are sites like MySpace, Orkut, Friendster, Tagster which are online social networking sites. I am not really a fan of any of these because it does not really inspire anything original it's just more and more of the same. They are more along the Web 1.0 stuff. They have some Web 2.0 features but don't make use of them very well at all. That is why they say MySpace, etc are for the kids but soon they will want more and there is more out there. The web isn't a popularity contest like these kiddy sites are.

The web should be a portal of information and ideas which is what Web 2.0 is all about. Taking an idea and making it available for everyone. That's what Podcasting, Blogging, Sharing Photos via Flickr are all about. I have lots of ideas for writing and creating and speaking and with what is our there now it is all possible. The people that choose not to do so I float the question why? Everyone has something to say, publish, edit, create, download, upload, syndicate the only crime is that you don't.

I love waking up opening up my e-mail and checking bloglines to see what people have to say or have created or what they want to create. I totally support everyone in that venture. So everyone go create a blogger account! Make a Feedburner Feed if you want to Podcast with Blogger! Go check out Wikipedia see what something is! Just please don't post another bulletin on myspace.

Funny enough this will be a topic on the next Podcast. How much more Web2.0 can you be? =p