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February 14th, 2008 — Web 2.0
Are you using google reader ?
If you are not using google reader, then you are missing a lot in your life. Believe me, once you use this, you will never stop using it. Reader allows you to organize all the websites and blogs you read. Its basically an online feed reader. And Its available from the links on top of your gmail. See the image below.
Take a look at this software right now. To know its advantages click on “Add Subscription” and enter the following URL in to the box.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/KenneyJacob
Now you can read all the content in my blog with out visiting my blog. When ever I update or put a new post, it will appear in your reader. You can add feeds from other sites and blogs also like this. Whenever you visit a site and would like to read future posts in it, look for RSS feed link. Copy the link and subscribe to it.
Also Make it a habit to check your reader whenever you login to your gmail.
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January 13th, 2008 — Education, Web 2.0
This is a small article I wrote for Technofirst.
Products have many versions. Is web 2.0 another version of the internet ? It is not. It is the same internet that existed 10 years ago. Then why is this hype around web 2.0 ? What is web 2.0 ?
The term web 2.0 has got nothing to do with a product version or some enhancements to the current internet. It signifies the change in approach to creating websites. The term Web 2.0 was coined by Tim O’rielly, the founder of the O’rielly company.
When we think technology wise, there is no difference between the web 1.0 and web 2.0. Almost all web technologies that existed 10 years ago are still here and most of the new names in web technology that we hear are enhancements of the earlier ones. The real change happened in the way how we use the technology to deliver a better user experience.
The three corner stones of web 2.0 are
- Collaboration
- Participation
- Networking
The so called web 2.0 applications focus on these areas. The users can participate in an activity. The users can achieve something collaboratively. The users can network with other users.
Web 1.0 was the read only web. Web 2.0 is the write enabled web.
That ends the theory part. Now lets looks at some examples.
- Blogs
- Wikipedia
- Social Networking
In web 1.0 content writers created websites and webmasters maintained it. There was no easy way in which a normal user could participate in any of those. Then came the blogs. Blogs let you create your own space on the internet where you can write about anything you like and your readers can interact with you through comments.
Wikipedia allows you to create something collaboratively. You can start by creating a wiki page and then others can join you in the process. Wikipedia is the worlds largest collaborative project where a complete online encyclopedia is created and maintained by the internet users.
Social networking sites allows you to be in touch will all your friends and family in a single website. Social networking sites allows you to express yourselves and network. Humans are social beings and social networks are the online extensions of our real world social interactions.
In all these examples its the users who are important. Users produce content and the same users consume it. Now they cannot be called producers or consumers because they do both. They are the Prosumers. And this change in focus to the users is the real essence of web 2.0.
The web 2.0 concepts are affecting every web application that is being built these days. The user participation elements can be found in almost every new website in the form of user profiles, tags, comments etc. Youtube, the 15 Billion dollar company is entirely built using user uploaded videos.
Are you still living in web 1.0 ? If yes its time that you moved on. You can enter the web 2.0 world by creating a blog and then sharing your thoughts with the world. Check out my thoughts about the web, wireless and education at www.kenneyjacob.com
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January 1st, 2008 — Mobile, Web 2.0
Mobitop is the product I am talking about. Its a mobile phone application development platform that combines the power of the web and the native features on a mobile phone. I met the guys behind this cool product in the modemo event.
Mobitop allows you to create rich web 2.0 mobile applications. With mobitop, a mobile application developer can develop applications very fast using standard web technologies and minimize porting problems.
The product is cool, but the fellows are not giving it the publicity needed. Also the licensing procedures are not very friendly. I hope some big company will acquire them and make this product free for development.
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December 1st, 2007 — Web 2.0
When the whole web world was going behind web 2.0, all the user participation thing was making headlines, digg stumble, all those social bookmarking hype was going, I was wondering why google is not trying bite. But now it seems they are.
Google is experimenting with a social bookmarking or social voting right inside its search. This feature will enable users to vote for search results. Users even can ban results are spam also. There is another cool feature to suggest a relevant link.
Now thats what I call Google 2.0
When this comes into implementation, this is gonna change the way SEO is done. Search is going democratic. This is gonna improve googles results qute a lot. What a great way to tap collective human intelligence.
Right now they are not planning to open it up to the public. Each users preferences will be saved in his login only. But I believe the plan is to use all the results to improve the search results.
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November 27th, 2007 — Web 2.0
I am very much interested in the opensocial APIs promoted by the google. The moment I heard about it, 100s of ideas started forming in my mind. And I got one of them materialized the day itself. Check out the mobshare open social application.
I had been promoting the stuff a lot also, and thats when I had a chat with Vishnu about opensocial, and he pointed towards a possible problem, a problem that now J2me is also facing.
for an opensocial application to be effective we will have to customize if for every container that we want our application to run. Orkut needs its own look, we cant use the same design for myspace or linkedin.
Also most of these social networks will have its own cool features, for which they will develop additional APIs, extending the opensocial api. Now this has become like different KVM enhancements on various phones. Each phone manufacturer supports his own cool features.
Now this is a developers nightmare. Write applications and customize them for each and every container. I know every J2me developer has faced this problem. So will open social also end up like this. ?
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