Waiting on Web 3.0

The Vast Seas of Web 2.0 Tools

mw2006 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:38:24 +0000

Learning about social networking tools is great, but they are just that…tools. Nothing more. You can learn all about how they work and what they do but the important thing here is to utilize the tool to increase efficiency in how you learn or work. There are so many discussions about what tool works best or what features people wish there were, but really the big question is “will I really use this”. I consider myself a web 2.0 minimalist, I participate in the web 2.0 networks that I actually use on a daily basis. I see so many people online that join up on new startups just for the sake of web 2.0. Sure there are countless blogs on the Internet, but there are very few of them that post consistently good content.

Flash player and new Browsers

mw2006 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:24:01 +0000

Mike Chambers, a web evangelist for Adobe notes a bug in the next version of Firefox. While the problem was resolved, it got me thinking about how important Flash technology is to companies building web browsing applications. It seems as soon as Mozilla realized the bug was there, they immediately took care of it. Its fascinating how prominent the Flash player is on web browsers, I don’t think people realize how often they might view Flash content on the Internet. Firefox was smart in dealing with the issue before the official release of Firefox 3.

First post on Edublog

mw2006 — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:10:33 +0000

Hi all,
This is my first post on edublogs for my social networking class at GMU. This blog is intended to document my learning throughout this summer course and will give an update on my design idea for my project in this class.

My project is centered around emerging web technologies and will focus on the development of Adobe’s Integrated Runtime (AIR), Flash, Flex and Actionscript. I think the Internet as we know it is on a threshold and will soon be entering a new generation of web applications that serve the same (if not better) purpose as traditional websites.

I titled this blog “Waiting on Web 3.0″ because I’m exhausted with 2.0 – its time for a change. If I see one more social network pop up, I might explode. If people are joining a social network for stay at home mom’s who bake, I think its about time we move onto to something new. With the increase in success with Rich Internet Applications, I think you will start to see a new (and more efficient) way to use the Internet. I think that many of the big companies and organizations out there would agree. Already, you have Adobe’s AIR platform, Microsoft is pushing their Silverlight technologies and even Firefox has a project called Prism. It will be interesting to see which direction these companies take rich Internet Applications and I can’t wait to see what happens.