2.0
| 09:12 UK time, Thursday, 4 May 2006
If you want to find out how the visionaries are thinking about the future of the Internet and digital delivery, then take a look at .
They are exploring what is often called Web 2.0 - which is one of those futuristic terms that people have found hard to define.
The best explanation I've come across is that instead of simply text and graphics websites, the next version uses, and mixes, the full range of entertainment and communications.
Movies on demand. Music collections on your home wifi network.
Video phone calls that become television programmes and radio programmes that produce images, and so on and on.
I was helping yesterday with one of the lesser known but most exciting ´óÏó´«Ã½ digital projects - ´óÏó´«Ã½ Learning English.
They are not broadcasting through transmitters in the conventional way. Instead the offer webcasts which enhance the interactivity that is so important in learning a language.
They admit they are only just at the start of exploring where the change from radio to multimedia is taking them.
If you've got some thoughts, or are working in this area, please share them.
Comments
Dan,
Well, Web 2.0 is one of those things that means a lot of things to a lot of people. You're right a bit of it is technical, but there is also a fair bit about cultural/social stuff going on as well.
Websites are more dynamic. The interfaces are better. It is the read/write web. The original vision of the web. It's not a passive publishing system but also one where we can do what I'm doing right now, writing my own stuff to have a conversation.
The internet is social space as well as a publishing/media space. That's just as much to do with Web 2.0 as the tech.