What is Web 2.0 (in 5 minutes)
This YouTube video from Assistant Professor Michael Wesch of Kansas State University is an excellent 5 minute exploration. I don’t think it explains “Web 2.0,” but I think does a good job at describing the way the web is changing.
To me, Web 2.0 technologies enable Social Media applications. That is, the ability to separate data from its markup container (thus allowing RSS feeds of the text of a site without having to drag the layout around with it) allows many of the things we take for granted - news feeds, podcasts, rss readers, mashups, and more.
That said, the video is worth watching for its intelligent use of web pages, code and the reoccuring theme of typing and retyping that makes the viewer stop and think.
My mom and step-dad keep asking what we’re doing here at Social Media Club. Well guys, watch the video. We want to help people do that, easier, faster, with standards, in an ethical and community-caring fashion.
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