Wednesday 28 August 2013

Week 5- Social Media, Web 3.0 and Tutorial Task (Survey)

Tutorial Task: If you would all like to fill in a survey I made for this weeks tutorial task that would be great, I'm excited to see how varied everyone's answers will be: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CMPPSLP
Thanks!
For the purpose of this task I will also post the link to my Tumblr as I do not have Facebook.

Week 5 focused on Social media and web 3.0. With the lecture covering the evolution of social media and the concept of 'churn'. It's a destructive concept, churn, the prospect for an entire website and the different intertwining streets of ideas and culture around that website could completely disappear as soon as another improved version of it comes along. Take the churn from Myspace to Facebook for example. Myspace was immensely popular and when Facebook came along, it shifted in popularity until Myspace was scarcely used! The company has been completely shadowed by Facebook in a short amount of time! I feel that it is only a matter of years until Facebook is overtaken by another improved version of itself. Already, we see blogging websites such as Tumblr, bought by Yahoo for '$1.1 Billion cash' (Zennie, M. & Boyle, L), become more popular by internet users. Is this because of the fact that you don't have to post pictures of yourself or personal details of your life if you don't wish to? As a tumblr user, I can attest to the fact that I have never had Tumblr ask or pressure me for details about where I work or where I was born or what I ate for lunch that day.

Below is the article from the Daily Mail about the sale of Tumblr to Yahoo. I think it'll be interesting to see if Yahoo makes any significant changes to Tumblr, and if those changes will make users more inclined to find and use another blogging or social media website. Perhaps churn will eventually occur to Tumblr?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326998/Yahoo-buys-Tumblr-1-1billion-Founder-David-Karp-tech-tycoon.html

This week the lecture spoke of Web 2.0. From my understanding, Web 2.0 has meant ease of posting information to the web and increased ease of finding information, not just ease of ability to read it as was seen in Web 1.0 where the main focus was also simply building the web.
Whilst researching the concept of Web 3.0 further, I came across a website that had on it a graph showing a brief history of; the PC era, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and even Web 4.0. The graph also had dates showing the years when these events occurred, or will occur in the case of Web 3.0. Which, according to the graph started in 2010 and also in the case of Web 4.0, which will supposedly begin in 2020.
Here is the link to the website! It also holds an expanded definition of Web 3.0.
http://lifeboat.com/ex/web.3.0

References:
Zennie, M & Boyle, L.(2013). Billion Dollar Deal Makes 26-Year-Old America's Next Tech Tycoon: High School Drop-Out behind Blogging Site Tumblr Sells It To Marissa Mayer's Yahoo!. Mail Online.

1 comment:

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