For this week:
1. If you haven't already, please read carefully the Tim O'Reilly article defining Web 2.0 (note, it's five pages long). In addition to this article, please articulate how the suite of Google products are "Web 2.0-like" (not just search or the company as a whole) but individual products and software applications. What do you imagine will constitute Web 3.0? Here, you might look at the blog about the semantic web (posted below).
2. Orient yourself in SivaVaidhyanathan's blog, "The Googlization of Everything." In particular, I'm interested in his most recent post on the user/Google transaction. If you recall, both Kiesha (of Google Advertising Sales team) and David and Scott (on Android) talked a lot about "user experiences."
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"Once more we are reminded that while Google's commitments to fairness and transparency are sincere and important, they are only as good as the current form and condition of the company. If Google's revenues slip or its board of directors changes significantly, all the trust we place in the company today might be for naught.
ReplyDelete-The concerns over privacy I have entertained until now dealt mostly with what would happen if google violated a user's privacy (how would we even know?, what could we do about it even if we did?...), but this brings to light a problem I never even thought of.
-I also found this a little problematic. "After 18 months, information such as the IP number is "anonymized" so that it's difficult to trace a search query to a particular user. However, that pledge is not made in the policy itself."
Last thing, "Google officials also don't clarify the fact that completely opting out of the Google data collection practices significantly degrades the service Google will provide." ...I don't understand why this is so, and my first reaction to it is negative.
ReplyDeleteI would say that Google maps is a "Web 2.0" like. Compared to the past where we could pull up maps of certain places, now we can interact with these maps and see live footage. Perhaps Web 3.0 will have these maps in real time, creepy!
ReplyDeleteSiva's article opened my eyes to a whole other argument against Google. While everyone always argues and focuses on the idea that Google opens up the doors and world to so much information, I find it interesting that Google may actually be using it's data collected on us to limit our searches and direct us towards specific sites for advertising purposes, therefore possibly limiting our exposure to many different sources. Google's 2 classification of users, basic and complex (with Gmail, Blogger) is also an interesting notion. The brief privacy policy almost leads you to think that the company scans all of your text input to better learn about its users, and almost is a turn off from using its highly praised services. It will be interesting to see if Google is forced to clarify its privacy policy in the future, either through the force of Government regulation or by other consumer interest groups.
ReplyDeleteThis application is very Web 2.0 like how it allows multiple users to add information and collect information from other users. The content on Blogger is enhanced with more people adding to the data throughout many different locations. I would expect a Web 3.0 blogger format to include more live broadcasting from various groups and media organizations, which may someday even help further quicken the decline of traditional media. I think Web 3.0 will help transition us to the age of the "pedestrian reporter", effectively limiting the power and influence of the elitist media.
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