Web 2.0: The Modern Success Mantra
During one of our brainstorming sessions at Modulus Systems today, we sat down to discuss what exactly makes a website Web 2.0; is it the concept of user interaction, or is it just use of a different generation of technologies, or is it a society thing, where interactivity of users is necessary?
After a long session and many to and fros, we all agreed to one factor that definitely separates a Web2.0 site from the crowd of look alikes. Earlier, webmasters used to add content to the website for others to read and respond. Probably ModulusSystems.com is an example.
A web site can be called Web 2.0 when it has all, or "almost all" content added by its users.
Examples are youtube.com, myspace.com, facebook.com, digg.com, orkut.com and others.
We visited Alexa.com - A website that ranks websites based on how many people use them. What Alexa does is, it encourages you to install the Alexa toolbar on your browser. At present it supports Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. This toolbar sends small snippets of data to the Alexa server, telling it which websites the user is surfing and by gradually increasing their rankings. Today millions of users use the Alexa toolbar to view international ranks of websites and in return give away their surfing details, thus contributing to making Alexa ranks of websites even more genuine. However, I do not believe that a web site ranked 344,000 is necessarily visited by more people than the one ranked 350,000. It purely depends on people who have the toolbar installed, and not everyone in general. Thats one reason why US websites have higher ranks than websites from the rest of the world.
Having said that, I do believe that for the top few websites, Alexa rankings do tell a near-accurate story.
Here's the list of top 10 websites according to Alexa:
Out of the top 10 websites today, a massive 5 are Web 2.0 sites and rest are search engines. If you take the top 15, you'll see another 4 out of 5 joining the list.
Web 2.0 is the new success mantra and with new user-user interaction websites launching everyday, I'm sure some cool Web 2.0 projects are under development somewhere, waiting to come out and add to our present world of optimised surfing - The Web 2.0 way.
After a long session and many to and fros, we all agreed to one factor that definitely separates a Web2.0 site from the crowd of look alikes. Earlier, webmasters used to add content to the website for others to read and respond. Probably ModulusSystems.com is an example.
A web site can be called Web 2.0 when it has all, or "almost all" content added by its users.
Examples are youtube.com, myspace.com, facebook.com, digg.com, orkut.com and others.
We visited Alexa.com - A website that ranks websites based on how many people use them. What Alexa does is, it encourages you to install the Alexa toolbar on your browser. At present it supports Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. This toolbar sends small snippets of data to the Alexa server, telling it which websites the user is surfing and by gradually increasing their rankings. Today millions of users use the Alexa toolbar to view international ranks of websites and in return give away their surfing details, thus contributing to making Alexa ranks of websites even more genuine. However, I do not believe that a web site ranked 344,000 is necessarily visited by more people than the one ranked 350,000. It purely depends on people who have the toolbar installed, and not everyone in general. Thats one reason why US websites have higher ranks than websites from the rest of the world.
Having said that, I do believe that for the top few websites, Alexa rankings do tell a near-accurate story.
Here's the list of top 10 websites according to Alexa:
Out of the top 10 websites today, a massive 5 are Web 2.0 sites and rest are search engines. If you take the top 15, you'll see another 4 out of 5 joining the list.
Web 2.0 is the new success mantra and with new user-user interaction websites launching everyday, I'm sure some cool Web 2.0 projects are under development somewhere, waiting to come out and add to our present world of optimised surfing - The Web 2.0 way.
posted by Modulus Systems at
1:16 AM
2 Comments:
Is the user-user interaction on a Web 2.0 empowered website safe? I mean, is their a possibility of my personal details getting "hacked" by some anti-social elements? The other day, there were stories being flashed across Indian news channels about a murder mystery revolving around Orkut. So, is it a secure system?
Jas,
That is a very interesting question. Actually, because web 2.0 stands for user community interaction, possibility of your details being hacked is greater than on normal "webmaster telling story" websites. Here are a few measures you can take to prevent that:
1. Do not click on links sent via scraps or wall posts from unknown people.
2. Make sure you enter your username and password on authentic orkut.com or facebook.com, and not on pages that just look similar but store your username and password and change them immediately.
3. Always make sure that you don't have information such as credit/debit card numbers or personal phone numbers on any of these websites.
4. Be careful of files that someone sends to you as an attachment on your scrapbook/wall or ones that you download from external links. Sometimes these turn out to be hack servers, which provide information about whats going on your computer to a hacker from time to time.
A note on hacking and stealing of personal information: For anyone to be able to see every key pressed/evey window opened on your computer, all they need is your ip address and a hack server file running on your computer that keeps sending information to the client file, running on the hacker's computer, through your ip address.
Be Safe, Web 2.0 has immense fraud possibilities.
Having said that, it is also the most useful and successful medium of user-interaction and Web 2.0 sites rule the world today!
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