Article Post By Furqan Suleman
FURQAN SULEMAN: jazzy_4u_2006@hotmail.com
Web 2.0 is considered the new generation of websites. It stands for websites that are interactive with its members, allows its members to dynamically change the sites, add content to them, and interact with other members of the site like never before.
This is a huge shift in mentality. In Web 1.0 my website was only mine and nobody dare to touch it! In Web 2.0 my website is like a huge forum where people are active, add content and really interact with each other.
We can divide The Web 2.0 sites in these categories:
* Social Bookmarking
* Social Networking
* Video sites
* Pod Casting
Some people add Blogs as a distinctive category of Web 2.0 sites because of the openness and conversational nature of Blogs.
1) Social Bookmarking includes sites in which people store, classify and share links.
Examples: del.icio.no, Digg, Furl, Yahoo's My Web 2.0, Flicker, Simply, Technorati, Blinkflip, Blinklist, Squidoo, Stumple Upon, Mywebtop, Bloglines, Fark.
The best tool I know, a social bookmarking services, is onlywire.com. You can submit with a single click your site to multiple Web 2.0 sites.
Sometime Social Bookmarking and Social Networking are consider one single classification, I think the separation I made, the definitions and the examples I provide will show a clear cut, and implement the idea that they must be treated separately.
2) Social Networking it is about being able to group people into specific groups - online community of Internet users. As soon as you are granted access to a social networking website you can begin to socialize with the people in the group. Social Networking is usually open memberships where you begin to create your own network of friends.
Examples: MSpace, FriendFinder, Yahoo 360, Facebook, Orkut, FriendWise, Friendster and so on. Social Networking sites are extremely popular, easy to use, and easy to navigate. You have to register but the majorities are free to use: Yahoo 360, MySpace.
The aim of Social Networking sites is to meet new people on line, get access to free video music, get assess to free blogs. The most popular is MySpace with over one hundred million members and growing. Orkut is Google's social networking website; it is very easy to use.
3) Video Sites. They exploded in the last year, it is the idyllic way to get your videos in the search engines quickly by tapping the video with specific keywords and put them in videos description.
Examples: YouTube, Google videos, BlipTV, Flurt, SelfCastTV, Bott, ZippyVideo just to give you a couple.
4) Podcasting. It is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet and listened to when listeners wish to. Podcastingis a convenient digital method of distributing updated audio info that can be listened to at the listener's discretion.
Podcasts can be played by iPod, digital audio player or a computer with an audio playing software. The beauty is that independent producers can be you and me, anyone, and there are not any regulations about creating Podcast. This is freedom and people really enjoy it! My belive is the Podcasting has a great potential in future they will include content as well, not just audio and video even though now is an audio format.
There are also specialized podcasts which become more popular. Examples:
* Autocasting - is automatic generation of podcast from text
* Vidcasting - is podcasts using video
* Godcasting - is religious podcast
* Palmcasting - is podcasting to Palm OS Based devices
* Learncasting - is able to deliver instructional content by RSS
* MediaRSS - is media file syndication used by Yahoo
* Skypecasting - is recording Skype text, voice or video conversations
All of those are part of the big umbrella of Podcasting even though they a specialized.
We got so far that we have now podcast directories: podcastdirectory, digitalpodcast, podcast, yahoo.com and so on.
All those directory have a lot of podcasts to choose from.
As you can see, the Web 2.0 is already established and this is the direction in which I think the development will go.
If other people have more info and more experience in this direction in which web is going, I'll be glad to read your comments and happy to learn more.
Michaela Cernescu is an Education Specialist trained by eBay, Internet Marketer, Digital Products Writer, Affiliate, and honest Joint Venture partner.
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