Week 4: WEB 2.0

Flicking through the course material for this week I was laughing when I noticed elements of WEB 1.0 the blinking tag, the GIF’s and the term frames, it is so true that these elements are not nearly used as much as in the early web designing days…. I was really interested in seeing the components as such of the WEB 2.0 as we know it, full of social networking pages, large amounts of webpage’s created by us, the users like Facebook pages, Flickr photos and YouTube footage being uploaded onto the internet. I love the fact that the internet is used to share and collaborate. It is truly a great time to living in and quite exhilarating to imagine that it can only get better. I wonder how the internet can revolutionise the world anymore than it actually has….. Metadata was a term that I had not come across, I am still coming to terms with the terminology data within data, I subscribed to Delicious quite confused as to what I was doing and had actually bookmarked a few sites and “Tagged” the sites with WEB101, I know understand that it is a great tool to collaborate and share information tagged in a user friendly way…. It will be very useful now to use for the next 3 years of my teaching degree because I have always relied on Firefox bookmarking system but forget to actually name the pages and have to read through much of the pages I have bookmarked to find what I was looking for…. So it will be great to tag the pages with titles that are relevant to me and my assignments as such, definitely a time saver and great way to keep reliable readings at hand....

RSS interested me, I still need to possibly further investigate RSS I have not subscribed to pages before and have not felt a need to, but I am sure when I dabble into the RSS feed it will revolutionise my life as most web technologies do…..