Saturday, September 19, 2009
The Machine is Us/ing Us
Internet could be considered as the biggest wide area network (WAN) of the world. Billions and trillions of data are transferred and exchanged every minute. It has changed the way we live our lives and has certainly played an important role in globalisation.
The video shows the movement of internet technology from a human centric web to an application centric web. When internet first came into scene, it was simply about displaying plain text using limited HTML tags on the screen. Now with extended HTML tags and numerous other media such as videos, audios, images etc, internet has revolutionised the experience of distributed data on the web.
Other improved technologies such as CSS, XSLT also exist to separate the content from presentation.
The video also mentions about the XML technology which is the heart and soul of Web 2.0 type web applications. Delicious, Lastfm, YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, Ebay are all Web 2.0 applications. They allow users to do more than just retrieve information.
The video captures almost everything that the internet provides. The only thing that is missing is the topic web services. Most Web 2.0 web applications not only gives users the facility to perform the CRUD (create, retrieve, update and delete) operations and interact with other visitors of the site but also provides an API (application programming interface) for developers to extract their data and build their own mashup application.
The video shows the movement of internet technology from a human centric web to an application centric web. When internet first came into scene, it was simply about displaying plain text using limited HTML tags on the screen. Now with extended HTML tags and numerous other media such as videos, audios, images etc, internet has revolutionised the experience of distributed data on the web.
Other improved technologies such as CSS, XSLT also exist to separate the content from presentation.
The video also mentions about the XML technology which is the heart and soul of Web 2.0 type web applications. Delicious, Lastfm, YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, Ebay are all Web 2.0 applications. They allow users to do more than just retrieve information.
The video captures almost everything that the internet provides. The only thing that is missing is the topic web services. Most Web 2.0 web applications not only gives users the facility to perform the CRUD (create, retrieve, update and delete) operations and interact with other visitors of the site but also provides an API (application programming interface) for developers to extract their data and build their own mashup application.
// posted by Sumit @ 7:50 PM 
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Post a Comment