Week 3: Web 2.0 and Podcasting where is this heading?

Web 2.0, according to Tim O’Reilly is described as the second generation of the web. It aims to catalyze creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users. In the past the web being a start in a sense had limited offerings, as in it wasn’t developed well enough for us to know what it would bring about. The platform and base was created, but to what extent it would grow was unsure. It held with it a vast amount of promises, such as search engines and information. But to what extent and what efficiency those search engines would go to was unknown. Web 1.0 was Britannica.com, and it evolved into stronger information based sharing system known as Wikipedia.com. The webmaster no longer provides you with information, you can now update, change, and add more information. Web 2.0 is about sharing information; everyone contributes to the single process of viewing or sending information. Everyone on the web is an equal participant of the web. Just by viewing a page you become a participant of the sharing process of Web 2.0, which helps in for example as listed by Tim O’Reilly, ‘cost per click’, ‘folksonomy’, and ‘syndication’. Web 2.0 is now the basis of the web that is ever-growing, and that foreshadows limitless opportunities of participation and growth. In Web 2.0, just by being connected to the internet you are a participant and donator to the World Wide Web, just as Tim Burners Lee had imagined it.

I see Pod casting’s future as this: you don’t need to add a display picture any more, you don’t need to type out your thoughts in your blog or your information for Wikipedia.com, you can just turn on your webcam, and boom you can podcast your face, with your voice, and what you have to say to the world. Podcasting and Web 2.0 show us a digitally wireless enhanced future in communication. Every communicative devise built into your computer, and you do not have to move of your chair to work, or learn. Information is not only your fingertips, but communications is at its BEST and maximum. Web 2.0 promises the web as a central revolving basis to life. According to the Museum of Media History people have “access to a breath and depth of information, everyone participates to create a breathing living medias cape. The year 2014 the press cease to exist”. Automated personalized recommendations will govern the web. According to the Museum of Media history, Information will be custom tailored to each customer, and everyone will not only create but also consume media at the same time. Real Simple Syndication feeds can allow the placing of information automatically, with the creation of Googazon, a mixture of Google.com’s grid and Amazon.com’s recommendations. I believe EPIC is the future of Web 2.0 and pod casting. Evolving personalized information construct, which will help organized and sort the “chaotic” (Museum of Media History) amounts of information and also “unshackle” us from the constraints of not only commercials, but time, computer screens, keyboards. The future is human emotion generously attached to the web. Human emotion, action, thoughts, and energy will be the feeding wire to the web along with its own technology.