Web 2.0

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Our week 5 workshop focused on making a presentation on web 2.0. We presented these in or week 6 workshop. My group decided to focus on "The web as a platform".

We had a maximum of 15 slides and we spoke for 20 seconds per slide. We focused on the topics of cloud computing and the web as a platform.

Slide 1: Introduced the presentation topic

Slide 2: Displayed the diagram of the web as a platform. The term 'web as a platform' allows the internet to move away from the old system of many seperate pages that arn't linked together. These pages are read much like newspapers and were barely interactive, but now the web as a platform pages are seen as indiviual servers that can be interacted on so many different levels or platforms. The way we use the internet is changing, but is it moving away from the computer and towards the cloud...?

Slide 3: Looked at how Google have developed their own versions of Microsoft Office, with 'Google Docs' and spreadsheets. The development of 'Google Mail' has also become popular, sometimes being preferred to Microsoft Outlook. Could this be an on going development.

Slide 4: Key characteristics of Cloud Computing
1. Device and location independence allows user to acess systems using the internet regardless of where they are or whether they are using a PC or mobile phone. Users can connect from anywhere.
2. Reliability improves through the use of multiple sites, which makes cloud computing suitable for business continuity and disaster recovery.
3. Multi-tenancy lets a huge pool of users share resources and costs.
4. Agility improves with users able to quickly and cheaply provision technological infrastructure resources.

Slide 5: Clouds can be either public or private. A public cloud is where a service is sold to everyone on the internet, e.g. Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Where as a private cloud is an exclusive service which is only available to a select group of people.

Slide 6: WIFI is a local area connection allowing the user to connect to the internet. Aa WIFI device is installed in many computers, games consoles, mobiles and near enough all laptops. WIFI has become widespread as the price of chipsets continues to drop. It is available in more than 220,000 public hotspots and millions of homes and campuses worldwide.

Slide 7: Flickr - The web as a platform's main characteristic is the interactivity of the website. This is demostrated well in the photo sharing website 'Flickr'. The power of production is in the user hands. It allows people to upload, edit and catagorise their photos. Flickr is not just a set of pages, it provides a valuable service to a huge number of people.

Slide 8: Youtube - The cloud and platform allow lips recorded on other devices to be uploaded onto the internet site and become part of the cloud. This, like Flickr, places the power with the user. It is a service to share, comment and subscribe to useres videos. It is also ever changing and the way one person uses the site is completely different to the way another person does.

Slide 9: Facebook - demonstrated by facebook as you can use this platform to do what you want at any time.

Slide 10/11/12: Google Docs consists of two services, 'Writely' and Spreadsheets. Google combined these as a singular product, which was released on Oct 10 2006. Since release Google added their third programme for presentations, and Google Doc's plans to make many products that don't require software installation.

This idea is very simple and effective whilst taking up no space on hard-drives. Google docs is perfect for solo, groupand combined input assignments. The programme allows multiple user acess, simultainiously, to documents. Google also implimented a mobile app. so you can acess documents everywhere. However you can only use the mobile app. to view docs and spreadsheets, they haven't made it possible to view PDF presentations on it yet.

Slide 13: In the future there may not be a need for software anymore as everything will be available on the internet. For example you won't need to buy Microsoft Office software packages as you'll be able to acess the same services on the internet, in the same format as Google Docs. The future is questionable. How much more will technology and the web change? Could we see a Web 3.0?