Web 2.0

Basically, the Web 2.0 is a new style of using the Internet. Before now, the Internet was like a big library that had a lot of information. However, nowadays it is seen as a new means of communication. It is a place where people can share information. Moreover, the web is based in communities of users where they share information with the help of blogs, wikis and social-networking sites.

In times of the web 1.0 the user only downloaded  finished webs. But now apart from doing that ,they also do personal contents. For that reason we can say that with web 2.0 the user is more active. There are several causes that can explain this involvement of the user with the web: the increasingly number of users, the broadband…So the web 2.0 is not a technology, is an attitude from the users.

 

WordPress is one of the blogs that people use for

sharing information.

 The  man who established this term was Tim O’ Reilly in the year 1993. He wanted the people to know that the content was not text, it was a way of interact between the users. Nevertheless,It was not after the O’ Reilly Media web 2.0 conference in 2004 that the concept became notable. According to Tim O’ Reilly:

                                                 “ Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform”

  References:

•  Web 2.0.(2009 February 7) In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 15:00 , February 7,2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
• ¿Qué es la web 2.0?(2007 , August 03) In youtube. Retrieved 16:25, February 7,2009,from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJOhQ3z5Q0
• ¿Qué es la web 2.0?(2005, october 27)In maestrosdelweb. Retrieved 16:45, February 7, 2009, from http://www.maestrosdelweb.com/editorial/web2/

 

 

Hypertext

Mainly, when we talk about hypertext we talk about a text that lead us to another text which is linked to the first one. We are transported from one page to another by hyperlinks. Not only do these links show us another text but they can also show us a video, song, web page…related with the subject.

Hypertext has renewed the way the user has to read an article, has improved  the way of getting information and has finished with the limitations of written text. Nowadays, with hypertext we do not have to read the whole article, we just read what its useful for us and click on an hyperlink to continue reading about what we are interested. The user read the information in a non-lineal way and each user can read the information in the way he want. For example, while I am writing this article, I am searching the data which is going to help me surfing from web to web but maybe another person may do it in a different order.

 

 This is the way we read with hypertext.All the web is connected.

There are two men extremely connected with hypertext who are  Ted Nelson and Vannevar Bush.Vannevar Bush wrote an article that established the basis of the hypertext in his article”As We May Think” and Ted Nelson coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia.

Finally, People has to do an effort and try to get used to hypertext. It is not like written text, you have to be more attentive to ideas in order to be able to catch the specific information you want.

 References:

• Hypertext(2009 February,4)In wikipedia , The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:20,  February 6, 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext
• ¿Qué es el hipertexto?In UCM Retrieved  21:35 February 6, 2009 from http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/hipertul/deermer.html
• Hipertexto: Qué es y cómo utilizarlo para escribir  en medios electrónicos.(2009 February,1)In Eduteka.Retrieved 21:42, February 6,2009 from http://www.eduteka.org/Hipertexto1.php

RSS

The Internet is developing in a very fast way. There are appearing new instruments that help us to use it more easily and faster. One of these instruments is RSS. This instrument is a format based in XML and allows you to get up-to-date  informationwithout having to go to all the blogs you normally go. It has to be said that there exist three types of format RSS( Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary and Really Simple Syndication) and his initials acquire a different meaning depending which one you are using.

RSS SYMBOL

RSS has changed the way we use Internet. Before now, we had to go to every single blog to see if there was new information.It was frustrating when there were no changes and we have gone there for nothing. However, nowadays the news come to us.The RSS has helped us to earn time and not wasting it .

But how does RSS work?If you want to use RSS, you will have to follow these steps.Firstly, you need a RSS reader like Google reader(there are more RSS readers but this is a good one). Then, you create an account in Google reader and go to your favourite blogs. Finally, when you are in the blogs you only have to copy the feedsand add them to Google reader. You will only have to go to Google reader to see if there have been changes in your favourite blogs.

This method is very useful and more and more people are starting to use it. Try to get used  to the symbol of the photograph because you are going to see  it many times.

References:

• RSS.(2009 January,31) In wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.Retrieved 12:07, February 3, 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
• Guía fácil del RSS.(2006 March, 26) In Geocities. Retrieved 13:54, February 3, 2009 from http://es.geocities.com/rss_guia_facil/index.html
• ¿ Qué es el RSS y comó es útil?(2009 January, 19)In Youtube. Retrieved 14:42, February 3,2009 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lL_Nv7oObY
• Video: RSS in Plain English .(2007 April, 23) In commoncraft.Retrieved 14:50, February 3,2009 from http://www.commoncraft.com/store-item/rss_plain_english

Who is Kevin Kelly?

When it refers about cultural change, Kevin Kelly is your man. He was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1952 and has worked as a writer, photographer and conservationist. Nowadays, he lives in California, has married and has three children. Despite only going one year to university and then gave it up, his articles have appeared in such important newspapers as the New york times, Esquire, The Economist.. 

Kevin Kelly in his house of San Francisco.

Kevin Kelly has done lots of things during his life: founded Walking Journal, director of the Point foundation, editor of Whole Earth Review…However, in my opinion, the striking anecdote is that his book(Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World)was read before the start of filming The Matrix by the principal actors of  the film.

But why am I talking about Kevin Kelly apart from being an excellent expert in digital culture?. The reason is that he has done a speech predicting the following 5,000 days of the Internet, and describes very well what is going to happen. Mainly, he explains that all the electronical  devises  will change into one machine. Not only does he explain that but also that there will be an increasingly contribution of users and that it will appear the semantic web. Finally, he says that the web will be better and it will be a renewed one.

Kevin Kelly during his speech predicting the next  5,000 days of the Internet.

References:

• Kevin Kelly (editor).  (2009, January 3). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12: 08, January 17, 2009,  from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_(editor)
• Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web.(July 29, 2008 ) In youtube. Retrieved 13:09,January 17,2009 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M
• Transcription about Kevin Kelly’s speech.(2008, November 12)In wiki. Retrieved 14:23, January 17,2009 from http://wiki.littera.deusto.es/en/index.php/Ist0809/KevinKelly5000days
• Kevin Kelly: author, editor, publisher.In ted. Retrieved 14:56, January 17, 2009 from http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/kevin_kelly.html

Answer to the first debate: Kevin kelly’s description of the web.

Kevin Kelly, author that we have been studying in class and editor of Wired magazine, has recently talked about the first five thousand days of the Web in an informal meeting at the EG 2007 Conference, where he, also, shared with all of us through a revealing video his main thoughts about how he thinks the future of the Web will be. Summing up, we could say that Kelly announces three main changes in the evolution of the Web:

• An increasing contribution of users
• The ’semantic’ Web
• The AI of the Machine

Let’s analyze these improvements carefully. In first place, according to Kelly, users are going to make the Web more capable somehow. We will be able to provide the Web up-to-date information, data, photos…We will take a more active part in ‘building’ the Web. The Wikipedia, weblogs, or wikis, for instance, are good examples of this movement. We are gradually widenning the senses and abilities of the Machine.

In second place, Kevin Kelly talks about what he calls the ’semantic’ Web. In his opinion, we are going to stop linking pages and we are going to begin linking ideas and concepts. These hyperlinked ideas and the optimization of search engines that Web 2.0 bring us will be extremelly beneficial, allowing us to surf a network of connected thoughts.

In third place, Kelly reflects on the AI of the Machine and its possibilities. He believes that in the future the Web will be smarter, more intelligent…, that the Web will offer a wider range of services, that the Web will know us, and, consequently, that it will be much more personalized.

Kevin Kelly, digital culture expert, reaches to the conclusion that the next five thousand days of the Web are not going to be just a better Web, but a whole renewed, reinvented and different Web.

References:

Kevin Kelly. ¿Cómo serán los próximos 5.000 días de la Web? (2008, August 21) In Microsiervos. Retrieved 20:01, November 13, 2008, from
http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/tecnologia/kevin-kelly-5000-dias-web.html

Web 2.0. (2008, November 13). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:02, November 13, 2008, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_2.0&oldid=251590110

What is Web 2.0. (2005, September 30). In O’reilly. Retrieved 20:04, November 13, 2008, from
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Web 1.0. (2008, November 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:16, November 13, 2008, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_1.0&oldid=250642401

Group members: Javier Basterrechea, Saioa Batiz, Adrián Cadenas, Andrea Díaz and Iraia Eizmendi