Surfing YouTube the other day, I found this amazing clip which serves to explain the slightly deeper ramifications of web 2.0. The movie looks, at where it came from and where it’s going.
This stuff should send shivers down spines.
But first, some background. Web 2.0 is just a term used to define user-generated content. That is – sydneymorningherald.com.au is web 1.0, because the users go there to read, not create. YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, – in these spaces, users don’t just passively absorb, they create.
There’s one thing you need to know to help this video make sense, and it’s what HTML is. HTML is just a language used to write web pages. It was lots of little letters inside triangle brackets. When the web first started, pretty much every page was written in HTML. So to make a line break, you’d write <br>. And to make something italics, you’d write <i>. That was HTML.
XML makes it much easier to build sites where you don’t need to know any HTML to contribute to them. So for instance, if you want to post something on a wall on Facebook, you don’t need to know HTML. That’s because the website is built in such a way that you can just write normally and then the site figures out how to post it on the page. Seems simple – but THAT simplicity is what has led to the whole web 2.0 revolution.
SO… with that, enjoy this – it moves fast so pay attention!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
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