Web 2.0 In Under 5 Minutes
I admit upfront that this is only loosely related to telecommunication or Pakistan - but I decided its worth sharing with readers as many of us may not have thought about technology (r)evolution in this way. Even if you are a know-it-all tech guru, its an interesting clip. By the way the creator of this video was highlighted as 2007 Rave Award winner by Wired magazine, which wrote:
How do you sum up the power and potential of Web 2.0 in a 271-second video? By moving really, really fast. When Michael Wesch, who teaches cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, made “Web 2.0… The Machine Is Us/ing Us,” he’d been working for months on an academic paper that would explain new Web tools. As he struggled to define concepts like hypertext, tagging, mashups, and wikis, he had an epiphany: He was working in the wrong medium. He needed to use the tools of Web 2.0 to explain Web 2.0. Anthropology — humans studying the experience of being human — is a recursive discipline, and Wesch’s is a recursive video, cutting quickly between screenshots that show him bookmarking Web sites with del.icio.us, creating a blog with Blogger, and posting pictures on Flickr.
Enoy the clip.
This still has to do a LOT with Pakistan. The slow internet access speeds available generally in Pakistan were always the biggest barrier towards adoption of web 1.0 web-services by the masses.
Cryptic sign-up processes, cluttered design themes and full-page reloads in the pre-web2.0/ajax days were attracting pure frustrations. With the web 2.0 clear designs, trust-in-users, ajax’s magical partial updates of the pages, social networking etc, average Pakistani user is now in a better luck.
The only exception in the current web 2.0 that does not go well with contemporary Pakistani internet access scene is the proliferation of video. This is now being taken care of by a new breed of truly-Pakistani solution. But more on this internet-video-no-issue-in-pk revolution in the making later in a dedicated blog entry.
Web 2.0 is strange. On the one hand it has youtube and flickr that suck up your bandwidth and on the other hand it has RSS, CSS based designs and Ajax that can make things a little easier on a slow connection. Overall though I think its gradually moving towards a web 2.0Mbps.
Tee: do you mean Joost? Or maybe VOD from PTCL / Wateen?
Anyway the REAL story behind web20 which is very rarely covered is in economies of doing business.
Compare Yahoo, Ebay (of web 1.0) with Google / Skype etc. in terms of revenue VS investment in scale (more manpower / servers / marketing etc) and you will see that Web 2.0 business are growing even greater than exponentially.
By utilizing network economies derived from viral and citizen marketing / cheaper hosted infrastructure (Amazon S3) and with Web2.0 businesses reshaping value-chains drastically (cutting out all middle-men and outsourcing everything to the community of customers) businesses today can experience massive growth VS investment in growth.
Oops .. green & white link is here
@Abdussamad:
cool. I liked web2.0 Mbps :)
@ Osama:
No. This is not any of the regular names that we here in our small telecoms industry in pk. In fact, it is essentially no-namers winning the game.
TM - thanks for pointing out the connections to Pakistan.
Osama & Abussamad - interesting comments!