Does Web 2.0 even exist?

Over many years, there has been some debate to whether even Web 2.0 actually exists. This is mainly due to the fact that there is no coherent answer for the definiton of Web 2.0. Other ideas include that the Web was always meant to be not just connecting computers, but connecting people - and that the improvement of technology together with a marketing ploy used by social networking sites concieved the term as a marketing term.

"Skeptics argue that the term is essentially meaningless, or that it means whatever its proponents decide that they want it to mean in order to convince the media and investors that they are creating something fundamentally new, rather than continuing to develop and use well-established technologies."

There has also been a debate that many sites can't be catergorized as 'Web 2.0' due to the fact that they are wholey different and share little similarities with one another.

Here is a link to an article were Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee talks about his views on the existance of Web 2.0:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2006/09/7650/


Other useful links:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ip-telephony/web-2-0-it-doesnt-exist/805
http://www.syntagmamedia.com/2005/10/23/does-web-20-exist/

Development Of The Internet

When the World Wide Web was first conceived by Tim Berners-Lee?

The ideas were proposed in 1989-1990, before being impletemented in a program called 'WorldWideWeb' in 1991.

When the first website was launched and what it featured?

The first web page went live on August 6, 1991.  It was dedicated to information on the World Wide Web project and was made by Tim Berners-Lee. It ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN.

When was first ever banner ad?

The first clickable web ad (which later came to be known by the term "banner ad") was sold by Global Network Navigator (GNN) in 1993 to Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe, a now defunct law firm with a Silicon Valley office.

When was the launch of YouTube?

Youtube was launched in Febraury 2005, then later being acquired by Google.  When was google.com first registered?

The domain for google.com was registered in September 4, 1997.

When did broadband internet become available and how did it changed our habits online?

When was amazon.com was first launched?

When did the term “Web2.0” became frequently used?

 

Obama Twitter Campaign

In 2008 Obama took to twitter in the hopes of helping to secure money for his fundraising campaign, and accoring to many sources including Time Magazine this was one of the main reasons he was able to win the campaign as he did. The reason for this was simple, even though Obama's rivals had more big money backers than he did, Obama's twitter campaign brought in more small money backing though the use of email, mobile, website and of course Social Media sites such as twitte and facebook. It has been shown that in 2008 Obama raised $500Mil for his campaign, $403Mil of which was funded by digital means.

Blockbusters Goes Into Administration

Over 500 stores are now set to close as Blockbusters announces administration, but the surpirse is theat the administrators believe the core of the business is still profitable. 3 reasons for this is digital technology, competition from discounted online sales and the continuing sqeeze from economic downturn.

Now, it's up against agressively-priced offers of streaming video content from Netflix and Lovefilm. This is particularly dificult for Blockbuster's business model to compete with multiple episodes and box sets.

Christmas trading reports so far show it's online that's le[t successful retailers' numbers rising while those without an adequate strategy for online sales are struggling.

HMV Goes Into Administration

HMV has been in the news this week after announcing it going into administrations, meaning that the last major music retailer on the high street may disappear forever. The demise of HMV is a sad reminder for those who began buying music in the 80's/90's that life will never be the same again.

High street shops such as Virgin Megastore, Tower, Zavvi and Our Price have already disappeared in conjunction with the rise of illegal downloads and sites such as Amazon, Play.com and iTunes.

You could say that HMV has gone into administration after not adapting to Chris Anderson's Long Tail Theory, were despite the store stocking certain obscure artists/DVDs their was nothing there to guarentee its availability. Thus HMV lost out to other online retailers digging them even more into a £176 million debt.

Ofcom

Ofcom is a independant regulation body which handles complaints for broadcasting. It regulates on the content of advertisements, television shows and radio broadcasts that are broadcast to the general public, as well as this it covers postal regulation and telecommications.

Regarding the BBC, Ofcom regulates their television and radio broadcasts to see that the program(s) are abiding the certain codes of practice. Issues covered by Ofcom include phone line rates, content featured on these broadcasts and the accuracy of information shown on various programs.

Sponsorhip is where companies pay broadcasters to have their products/services

Amazon/Play.com In The News

Amazon offers free MP3's to CD buyers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/9793647/Amazon-offers-free-MP3s-to-CD-buyers.html

Amazon are offering free MP3's of the CD's they have bought going back to 1998. This includes more than 50,000 CD's from Sony, Warner and many other independant labels. This service is only available in the US at the moment but is hoping to be available in the UK at the end of 2013.

Play.com closes direct retail service.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-20953357

Play are moving out of the direct retail business intending to become a marketplace on from march 2013. In a statement Play.com said: "Moving forward we are intending to focus exclusively on our successful marketplace, which is our main business area, and to phase out the direct-retail part of our business."