Web 2.0 is the term Web maven Tim O’Reilly gave to the collection of user-oriented technologies (tagging, ranking, pointing, self-publishing and so on) that have spawned sites like MySpace, Digg, YouTube and countless competitors.
SpaceTime- 3d Browser
But is is exciting to see the very early beginnings of what the Web will probably evolve to in the next decade, as processor speed, memory and bandwidth continue increasing dramatically
You
Web-enabled mass participationRank: 45Why you matter: Can we be blunt? You had a disappointing year. It began with great promise, when this magazine placed You in the No.1 slot on the 2006 edition of this list. "You've become an integral part of the action as a member of the aggregated, interactive, self-organizing, auto-entertaining audience," we said, and we really meant it! A few months later, our corporate cousins at
Time concurred and named You the 2006 Person of the Year.
Then You got lazy. All those YouTube videos of cats dancing, playing the piano, and drunkenly running into walls? So derivative. Then there was all the fawning over
Snakes on a Plane. What was up with that? And don't even get us started on Sanjaya. Look, we still think You have lots of potential. But if You're really going to change the media landscape, it's time to step up Your game.
Windorphins - an ebay thing.
Ajax Windows
AjaxWindows, Why?
Posted: 14 Jun 2007 09:42 PM CDT
Another web desktop (webtop), AjaxWindows, launched and I’m left scratching my head. The site and service is allegedly from the creators of Linspire and is a lot like DesktopTwo, which mimics a desktop environment within your browser, taskbar and all. AjaxWindows even comes with a syncing client to help mirror all your desktop data to their servers. The major value proposition for these sites is to let you access your desktop anywhere, but I think they’ve gotten the user interface metaphor all wrong.
Desktops function as ways to organize and manage applications on our operating system. Browsers serve this function for web applications. If I want to check my email, I go to Gmail. If I want to check my finances, I check out my bank’s web page. Managing these applications is best done within the tabs of my browser, not a processor intensive ajax webtop. Ironically it also has a web browser.
There’s no value added by being able to overlay my web applications in ajax windows. Moreover, any platform’s utility is linked to the quality and number of applications developed on it. In the best case scenario, AjaxWindows has to mimic the best web applications on the net within their own service. In the worst case, it simply becomes an elaborate ajax wrapper for those applications.
There have been several other takes on bringing desktop functionality to the web. EyeOS takes an open source approach, YouOS is in alpha, and DesktopTwo is aiming at enterprise clients. Other variants of interfaces for accessing your online life anywhere include start pages like Netvibes, Pageflakes, and Goowy. Further blending the line between the web and your desktop are Adobe AIR, Silverlight, Dekoh, and Mozilla’s yet-to-be-released Parakey.
Twitter, MySpace and SL, gonna die?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2145408,00.asp
Morse Code or Text Messaging
http://www.kyte.tv/channels/browse.html?first=0&mode=LATEST#uri,channels/1092/20408
Spending hours doing nothing! Dvorak
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2144777,00.asp
Can Web 2.0 change the world?
COSMO - web cams and social networking
HeyCosmo: Webcams Meet Group Collaboration
Posted: 15 Jun 2007 08:48 AM CDT
HeyCosmo, a new online video community from Mountain View, CA based Arsenal Interactive launches today with a well rounded package that blends web cam interaction with group collaboration tools
With HeyCosmo, users are able create “channels” that can include up to 10 live web-cam video participants in a group discussion. Additionally up to 50 people can listen, watch, and chat during the session on top of the 10 core participants. HeyCosmo’s technology also provides individuals and businesses monetization options for their content utilizing a fee for service model similar to Skype Prime.
The feature list for HeyCosmo is impressive, combining tradition web cam technology with virtual meeting space similar to WebEx and others; a multimedia window can display most things on a user’s desktop including videos, images and games.
Desktop presentation and sharing services tend to be more strongly focused on a business market and aren’t necessarily appealing to a broader personal consumer market. HeyCosmo delivers a more user friendly product that has the potential of building a new market for these sorts of applications.
