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  Digital Web Magazine - Web 2.0 for Designers 

  http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_designers/

  In: Columns > By Richard MacManus By Joshua Porter Published on May 4, 2005 In Web 1.0, a small number of writers created Web pages for a large number of readers. As a result, people could get information ... by going directly to the source: Adobe.com for graphic design issues, Microsoft.com for Windows issues, and CNN.com for news. Over time, however, more and more people started writing content in addition to reading it. This had an interesting effect—suddenly there was too much information to keep up with! We did not have enough time for everyone who wanted our attention and visiting all sites with relevant content simply wasn’t possible. As personal publishing caught on and went mainstream, it became apparent that the Web 1.0 paradigm had to change. Enter Web 2.0, a vision of the Web in which information is broken up into “microcontent” units that can be distributed over dozens of domains. The Web of documents has morphed into a Web of data. We are no longer just looking to the same ol   [More...] [Less...]

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  Web 2.0 applications: Google vs. Yahoo vs. Microsoft vs. the world - CNET.com 

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  In the Internet's infancy, Web pages were flat, often in basic black-and-white, and even text took achingly long to load via dial-up. Then the Net became colorized and started talking. A big broadband ... pipeline into your home suddenly made it possible to stream video, tune into music, and shop online. Welcome to the Web 2.0 world. In the Net's current developmental phase, you can create your own news service with an RSS reader, brand and broadcast yourself on a blog or a podcast, and mash up an online map to chart local yard sales or global pollution. Dynamic coding makes online services swifter than ever; you can even furnish your office with free Web-based software, freeing yourself from obsolete desktop-bound apps. Of course, the Goliaths in the game have taken notice. Here's a look at the latest Web 2.0 offerings from a trio of tech giants, starting with online e-mail services and mapping tools from Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. These three vendors are busy crafting a host of onli   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 17 September 2007, by: Nik Petrovic  [Report as spam]

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