Web 2.0

Web 2.00 in my own language means another milestone in web or Internet communication. It is the step up in the Internet world. Until I read Module 3 I did not know what web 2.0 means and what it involves. Once I read and understood I realise that I've been using all web 2.0 programs without even knowing that they are web 2.0. Eg: Google and Flickr. And recent use of blogg for my NET11 studies.

One great thing I use for almost everything on the web is Google. This is an excellent search engine which is at the top on web 2.0 list for me. It gets to a point without Google I can't finish my assignments or be more knowledge about web. Thanks a lot to Google which makes my life lot easier.

My first ever experience of u-tube was the web 2.0 u-tube in Module 3. I have always been hearing about how others talk about u-tube but my first experience is from my studies with NET11. Recently my friend told me that she did not miss any part of her cousin's wedding which happened in France by watching it on u-tube in Sydney. Wow how amazing is that you get to see live telecast of a wedding happening on the other end of the world from this end of the world.
A big salute to web 2.0.

On my tour in the net world I found the following as some other interesting web 2.0 sites.

Roadsharing

BlinkWeb

An interesting piece of information from "Discovering the Latest in web 2 Development" -


















And more new web 2.0 applications and trends are; podcast and video casts and screen casts.
New stuffs are:

Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/

Jaiku
http://www.jaiku.com/

Reference:
Crosby, C. (2007), Discovering the latest in Web 2.0. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
http://www.llrx.com/files/Web2point0.pdf

Task

The major difference is that blinklist is web 2.00 where as the html is the older version of web.
I think once you get used to the latest version of web 2.0 it is a bit too boring to deal with simple html page.
Blink list is colour full and easy to navigate where as the html page you got to read through before you could pick and select.

Blogs

My view of blogging and my experience with other blogs:-

This is the first time I used blog and I think even after completing this unit I'll continue to blog if time permits. I did not know until I took this unit as an elective subject for my Bachelor of Accounting that there is something called blog and it is so easy to do.

I personally thought blogs are for personal use until I came across blogs in the searches and there were journals and articles relating to researches. I did not use any of them for my referencing purposes since I was too scared about the recognition of author and how valid the source is.

I have seen many cinema blogs which have attracted me to read. Especially Tamil movie stars and they are updated quite often which is interested to know their upcoming projects. I have left many comments as well.

I recently visited the blog of Apple's Mobileme site and was fascinated by their updates posted every other day after their launch of new product mobileme. It shows a good use of blog in the net world.

FTP

With the knowledge of FTP from module 1 I started to do this task with confidence and got stuck in the end for a long time and seeked Cynthia's help for the first time.

First of all using Filezelia I uploaded my web page and FTP it to Curtin Oasis. Then I downloaded the VPN cisco system and able to log in fine. But when I try to access my home page through VPN an error message kept on coming.

So I emailed Cynthia and as per her instruction I did not continue to waste any time longer on this task as she reckons it as an IT issue.

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Message no. 18
Recipient: Cynthia Verspaget
Date: Monday, August 4, 2008 14:04
Hi Cynthia,
Some how I managed to log on to VPN client and then when I typed the URL
http://student.curtin.edu.au/~12975608 the following message comes up. What have I
done incorrectly?
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~12975608/ on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Apache/2.0.54 (NETWARE) mod_jk/1.2.15 Server at student.curtin.edu.au Port 80
Regards
Janaki

Message no. 19 [Reply of: no. 18]
Author: Cynthia Verspaget
Date: Monday, August 4, 2008 14:58
Hi Janaki,
some students have issues with VPN and not being able to access their
page - at this late stage in the unit I strongly suggest moving on from
the task and perhaps simply uploading to the presentations area instead.
You can contact curtin IT and ask for help but it will take a while.
Do you feel ok with letting that go and uploading to presentations at
this stage? if it were earlier in the sp I would suggest we follow it
through but I really dont want you to get bogged down with an it related
issue when you have an alternative available.
Cheers'cynth
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I successfully uploaded my web page in the presentation in WebCT which gives me satisfaction at this point in time.

Legal issues - Copyright

Have you used images or words on your web page or website that contravene copyright laws?

After viewing the copyright website and Curtin's copyright policy I think so far I have not used any words or images that contravene copyright laws.

Images
I have got only one photo of my kids which is my copyright if so also.
I do not think according to the copyright website and curtin policy the screen shots attached are against the copyright policies.
The images I uploaded for the HTML tag task I presume is intended for that purpose and should not be against copyright.

Words

Any words or materials I used for my concept assignment is referenced fully to my best knowledge in the bibiliography. Other than that I normaly like to write on my own words any of my experiences and or answers to my tasks.

Would you be in breach of copyright if you put the Curtin logo at the top of your web page for an assignment?

Yes I guess I would be. My reasoning behind this is Curtin logo is only to be used by Curtin Uni staff who has the authority to use it on their correspondance or doucment and it is a breach or illegal issue to use by a student. Students do not have the legal status the staff has in a Uni so it will be a breach of copyright to put in an assignment.

5 Most important rules for writing online

I believe as Dennis G, Jerz says if it is for your personal use be daring or daunting is up to you. But if you are some one who is publishing for the purpose of audience attraction then you got to follow some simple rules.

My suggestions are,

1.Be simple and get the point straight away - That is not every one who surfs the net has time to read every single word by word so come to the point straight away.

2. Make it attractive with bold underlines and provide hyperlinks where ever possible to highlight the key words and meanings.

3. Try to avoid too many links. That is users may get diverted from your page and carried away to another web page where they will forget your web page.

4. Use simple easy to understand language and grammar. Bear in mind there are all types of people who surf the net. e.g. students, kids.

5. Finally through my experience make the page printable. That is give alternative version of printable format if the present layout is not printer friendly.

To my understanding advice on Nielsen's paper still stand current because I am one of the type of surfer described by him who Scan quickly and very impatient. So I reckon his principals are still young.

My Web Page-HTML tags

This is a very very new experience for me.I did not have a clue as to how web pages are created. I thought it to be the easiest thing to do until I started doing one on my own.

At the beginning I thought I am not going to be able to do this and publish my web page. Any way as i went along I understood the principals. Most important is to remember, when you open a tag you have to close it otherwise it will mess up every thing.

It is very very time consuming to create a web page compared to blog. In my personal opinion I find blogging easy to maneuver. I could use the mouse instead of the key board, where as in creating a web page we have to use the key board and all the shortcuts have to be known. Blogging is very user friendly I mean every thing is there for you, by click of an icon we could get bold, italics or underline working but in HTML for every single thing we have to write command.
In blogging i do the spell check before I finalise but in Notepad I did not have that facility I had to copy content to a Word document and check for spellings.

My link to the web page is as follows:

http://webct.curtin.edu.au/305033_b/student_pres/Group64/index.html

Hats off to all those who create complex websites. At last I created one on my own so I deserve a night out tonight and most of all a good night sleep which I hardly get now a days.

My vote at this point stands for Blogging so Good bye HTML for now.