This chapter is the perfect way to jump into the ideas and concepts behind web 2.0. Today we are so immersed in technology it's difficult to think about the road that brought us here in the first place. I constantly have to remind myself that the speed, availability, and social aspects are in its respective infancy. Chapter 1 describes the concepts, ideas, and principles behind this movement in the Word Wide Web. The speed of the internet has greatly improved allowing us to collaborate seemlessly hundreds if not thousands of miles away. The collaborative applications such as Skype, Google Talk, and Webex have shrunk the world as we know it. Availability is another factor that has shaped the corporate world. One of the largest communication corporations (Cisco) can bridge together corporations without having to leave the office. Being able to interacte with a person miles away in an office setting generates efficiency and promotes accessibility. Finally the social networks. Socials networks became and "underground" hit 7-8 years ago; the big one MySpace. MySpace attracted so many young plugged in teenagers and adults to their mini webpages. Begin able to express yourself in this way become extremely popular, especially when MySpace created the musician pages. The best part of the social movement was that it was completely free. Anyone could join and create the content they wanted. The social networks became bland after MySpace popularity leveled out. Mark Zuckerberg changed everything. Zuckerberg introduced Facebook to college students in 2003-2004 revolutionizing everything MySpace had to offer, it is still the number 1 social networking site today. Facebook was just the beginning in the Web 2.0 evolution.
Chapter 1 explores the comparison of web 1.0 and web 2.0 and the tools which sparked the evolution. Beyond chapter 1 I find there are tools that help standardize the web as we know it and it is up to us as educators to make sure these standards are taught. The web isn't ran by a conglomerate group of individuals; but a place for creation, interaction, collaboration, and learning.
