Web 2.0 Revolution
People used to use the web as a source of information they used to read about news on CNN.com, about graphics issues on Adobe or Macromedia or about Apple news on Apple. But every thing is rapidly changing now, people want to write as well as they read they want to share their opinions and thoughts for the world to read it and comment it.
Content on the web now is dramatically increasing making it really difficult to track all the web sites that provide the kind of information you need, the solution is Web 2.0 which is forcing itself on the web.
Web 2.0 is a new way of thinking of the web that put the content at the first priority in which web content is broken up to "microcontent" units that can be redistributed by technologies like RSS, to make it easy on a reader to get all the content he want in one place.
Aggregators & remixing tools:
RSS is a really powerful technology, you could view an RSS feed of a web site which is a list of the recent news published on a specific web site in a light weight XML format, each entry published called a feed, you could specify the date range to see feeds published in this range of time you could sort feeds by Date, title, source, you could search through feeds on a specific word which will filter the feeds to let the feeds that contains this word only. The best part is that you could merge more than one web site feeds in the same window and run the same functions on them. Imagine the power of this it's incredible.
Technorati is a tool for keeping track of what's new on what they call the blogsphere which is the world of blogs, you can search all technorati claimed blogs which are 16.9 million right now about a specific word like katrina for example and you will see all blog posts that contains the world katrina.
This revolution is not regarding text content only but regarding photos as well, flickr is a great tool for sharing photos that has a lot of new fantastic functionalities, check my photos on flickr.
Del.icio.us is a tool for organizing and sharing bookmarks, check my del.ico.us bookmarks.
Tags
Tag is like a category you could assign tags to every post, and tools like technorati use this tags to index your posts, check technorati tags or see a specific tag like world for example. Also flickr and del.icio.us use tags. See flickr tags or a specific tag like Egypt and see del.icio.us tags or a specific tag like web 2.0.
Overall conclusion the web is exploding with new technologies that will let life, entertainment, business, learning and researching a lot easier and more fun.
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September 10, 2005, 11:04 PM | Web News , Web2.0
Comments
1 | October 22, 2005 9:05 PM, Ahmad Gharbeia said:
Syndication is a powerful tool indeed.
But Atom is much better than RSS, and for good reasons. So maybe we should start talking about it specially that the layman tends to have words stick to his minds that become difficult to change later.