the best of web 2.0
January 9th, 2007Web 2.0 Magazine has published its Top 100 List of Web 2.0 Sites, which is a fairly complete list of all the user-generated content sites out on the web.
Those who have a general knowledge of Web 2.0 can get a more detailed understanding from this O’Reilly article.
Another great explanation of the Web 2.0 phenomena lies with Wikipedia’s page on this latest Web revolution:
Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004,[1] refers to a perceived or proposed second generation of Internet-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users. O’Reilly Media, in collaboration with MediaLive International, used the phrase as a title for a series of conferences, and since 2004 the phrase has been adopted by technical and marketing communities. Its exact meaning has been open to debate, and some experts, notably Tim Berners Lee, have questioned whether the term has meaning.
One of the aspects of Web 2.0 I’d like to explore a bit more with Rice Bowl Journals is the concept of social bookmarking. There definitely needs to be something added to the site that would make it more Web 2.0, rather than just Web 1.0… an information source….
Yes, a New Year’s resolution to implement in the next few months. Meanwhile, I need to continue to redo code to make the site more efficient and ready for the changes, which have been taking place already in subtle forms.
January 9th, 2007 at 9:41 am
I like the idea of shared bookmarks, for rbj… I wonder if a shared knowledge base, specific to the Asian culture (and similar to Wikipedia) would work as well?
January 9th, 2007 at 10:31 am
a wiki for RBJ sounds good.
i recentlly set up a Community Portal page which anyone can submit links to… still leary about giving users total control since RBJ has a limited budget on a semi-dedicated server account.
if RBJ every goes the total dedicated server route, then i think a Wikipedia type feature would do great, plus giving users more control and more options to do things on the membership level.
i’m also planning on setting up a readership account so that anyone who just wants to use RBJ’s special features for surfing the directories can do so without having to submit a blog or journal. i’m sure there are people out there who just want to “read”.