The power of the web
I always thought about how powerful is this World Wide Web, How quickly and accurately can a person reach information on the web, I got a UK friend who was traveling to Tanzania, and he was depressed that his job force him to go there, in a minute I cheer him up by some flickr photos about Tanzania, some information through Wikipedia & ofcourse it's satellite pictures through Google maps ofcourse he started from this point and started zooming in every place seeking cool places to visit.
One of the technologies that let you benefit from this power too is RSS, if you got Safari try opening this news menu click on "View All RSS Articles" and you view all news articles from 8 of the most well known news agencies in one window, now you can fill this "Search Articles" input area with any word you want, and boom it will filter all the articles and leave the articles that contains this word only. I know this is not a new technology and some of my readers might know that but a lot of my readers also don't know about that, and even who knows may still don't realize how powerful it is.
The web is powerful also in connecting people together in various ways, me and Rida Al Barazi have been using Basecamp for managing FRESH PX which we will release soon by the way. and I can't tell you how this app help us and how it is easy and pleasure to use.
Even Google search engine is a powerful tool if you know how to use it well, and Technorati as well, were you can search most of the web blogs around the world through it.
Those are all signs of the power of the web but what I wanted to focus on today is Wikipedia, for those of you who don't know Wikipedia, it's a free encyclopedia that any one can edit, imagine that this encyclopedia can be fed by any person in the world who has something to add to it, how powerful is this encyclopedia and how big it is and even how updated it is. The new thing that I wanted to mention today that it is also reliable, it is even as accurate as the encyclopedia Britannica, Read this BBC news.
This World Wide Web is gonna let every ones life easier and will help everybody to achieve their goals, but unfortunately not every body in my local community know enough about the web so I hope this post encourage them to start, checking it out.
December 16, 2005, 3:15 AM | Web News , Web2.0
Comments
1 | December 16, 2005 3:53 PM, JM said:
It's amazing how quickly the internet has coalesced into a force that almost defines communication between us. I still remember when I was younger, it was rare to hear them speak about internet-related things in the traditional media. For instance, when you heard them speak about 'email' you kind of got a little shot of recognition ("I do that!"). Of course, this was always followed by a reference to traditional "snail mail." Nowadays, you wouldn't even think twice about only offering email, as paper mail is used more for legal purposes.
Anyway, I like this blog and thought I'd comments. Sorry, this got more long-winded than I intended.
2 | December 16, 2005 4:18 PM, AbdulRahman7 said:
I agree! By the way, I'm the Tanzania guy! ;)