Social Filtering & Web 2.0
Web 2.0 = power. [For those unlcear on Web 2.0, here is a seminar article.] We see a trend in leveraging the parallel processing capacity of individuals through distributed information management in Wikis and other forms where people can vote and Sites can now dynamically update themselves. Washington Post article on opening up the Patent Office
This table is quoted from the O'Reilly article on Web 2.0 quoted above to illustrate by example the direction of change under Web 2.0.
| Web 1.0 | Web 2.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| DoubleClick | --> | Google AdSense |
| Ofoto | --> | Flickr |
| Akamai | --> | BitTorrent |
| mp3.com | --> | Napster |
| Britannica Online | --> | Wikipedia |
| personal websites | --> | blogging |
| evite | --> | upcoming.org and EVDB |
| domain name speculation | --> | search engine optimization |
| page views | --> | cost per click |
| screen scraping | --> | web services |
| publishing | --> | participation |
| content management systems | --> | wikis |
| directories (taxonomy) | --> | tagging ("folksonomy") |
| stickiness | --> | syndication |
Think of how it used to be done. I decided I need to take a look at top 50 lists on the Web and collect my thoughts. Start with this list from Yahoo! News. Someone had to create this list and freeze it into a presentation. It will not update itself though the information will change very quickly. Ratings in more dynamic media and Sites can do this dynamic updating, resolving an information bottleneck. The key is a technology allowing easy "mash-up" of data sources into user-friendly interfaces by the average user. One leader here is Kapow server.
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