Blog #4

There are many connections among Weinberger’s ideas and the “what is Web 2.0” and “web Squared.”  Weinberger’s ideas focus on organization and the impact of the three orders or order and the four new characteristic principles.  “What is Web 2.0” sets the stage of the internet being used as a platform to reach out to different people.  “Web Squared” talks about how the internet is a collective mind and its constantly learning from all the users.  Here are some similarities that I found in all of the three reading.  

 

Weinberger- “On line, on the other hand, we just naturally expect to organize information our
way, through tags, bookmarks, playlist, and weblogs.  And then we add to the information that a site provides us by disagreeing with it in our own review” (pg 106).

 

Web 2.0- “There’s an implicit “architecture of participation,” a built in ethic of cooperation, in which the service acts primarily as an intelligent broker, connectiong the edges to each other and harnessing the power of the users themselves.”

“On torrents and P2P sharing networks “the service automatically gets better the more people use it”

Web Squared- “Chief among our insights was that “the network as platform” means far more than just offering old applications via the network (“software as a service”); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.”

All three of the authors of their respected article talked about the importance and the impact of collective information that was created from the internet as a “platform.”  

The next few quotes I believed that they tied up by talking about real time and how it’s the big thing that is happening right now. 

Web 2.0- “The race is on to own certain classes of core data: location,
identity, calendaring of public events, product identifiers and namespaces.  

“Real time monitoring of user behavior to see just which new features are used, and how they are used, thus becomes another required core competency.”

Web Squared- “Collective intelligence applications depend on managing, understanding, and responding to massive amounts of user-generated data in real time.” 

 

“Think of sensor-based applications as giving you superpowers. Darkslide gives you super eyesight, showing you photos near you. iPhone Twitter apps can “find recent tweets near you” so you can get super hearing and pick up the conversations going on around you.

“Our cameras, our microphones, are becoming the eyes and ears of the Web, our motion sensors, proximity sensors its proprioception, GPS its sense of location."

Weinberger- “In the digital age, computers have become demonically good at sorting through gigantic, complex piles of information” (pg 85)."We have taken technology and the power of the masses into a whole different level “crowdsourcing”.  We are able to use information and manipulate it anyway we want, whenever we want and most importantly now! Weinberger describes in his four characteristics of knowledge and how we decide to organize information and share it with the world.

First: traditional knowledge is that just as there is one reality, there is one knowledge, the same for all.

Second:  We’ve assumed that just as reality is not ambiguous, neither is knowledge.  If something
isn’t clear to us, then we haven’t understood it.

Third: Because knowledge is as big as reality, no one person can comprehend it. So we need people who will act as filters, using their education,
experience, and clear thinking. 

Fourth: Experts achieve their position by working their way up through social institutions (pg 101)

“The way we’ve organized knowledge has been largely determined by these four properties of knowledge.”