Today’s reading by Tim O’Reilly titled, What is Web 2.0: Design patterns and business models for the next generation of software, compares the old with the new. After reading this article I realized that Web 2.0 does not have a specific definition. All in all it describes the Internet’s many faces. The author of the reading, O’Reilly, has a “meme map” that shows the many topics Web 2.0 covers. Some of these topics include hackability, the perpetual beta, software that gets better the more people use it and rich user experience. This article explains the old versions of topics and then explains the new version.
O’Reilly goes on to compare Netscape and Google. In this section O’Reilly discusses how Netscape is the old way of “the web as platform” and Google is the new wave (O’Reilly). Google is just in a different wave of Internet software era. There is so much more to the Internet today. Some big features include blogging and live video. What I got out of this was Netscape is the black and white form of Google. O’Reilly says, “Google’s fellows are other internet applications like eBay, Amazon, Napster, DoubleClick, and Akamai.”
The internet is an ever growing environment. We do not know if in a decade if the Internet is going to be the same medium as we are use to today. O’Reilly does a nice job of comparing the old with the new in this article.
Bibliography
O’Reilly, Tim (2005). What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation Of Software.Retrieved August 21, 2008 from ttp:/oreillynet.com/pub.a.oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html.
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