This is the first web 2.0 company I’m talking about. If you haven’t already, read the introduction post here.
No, not photobucket, or sony image station, and DEFINITELY not facebook. Flickr is an amazing photo sharing website. I got myself a pro account, and I haven’t ever looked back. The pro account is $25 / year, and gives you unlimited uploads and storage and access to everything on the website. (Free accounts are limited to 200mb upload every month, and only 200 pictures can show up in your public album). Even though it costs money, it is a great service. It is amazingly easy to add pictures (just drag and drop onto a program in windows, then click upload), and then the interface is great.
It is a very open system. The four pictures that show up on the right side of my website are pulled directly from flickr. Also, if you have noticed the photos section of my website is generated directly from my flickr account. That means when I upload a picture to flickr it goes everywhere. With wordpress (the system that controls this site), I use FAlbum for the gallery, flickrRSS for the side of the front page, and Flickr Photo Gallery so I can add pictures to posts easily.
As a side note, Flickr has been around forever. It was eventually bought by Yahoo, which makes it one of the only Yahoo products that are really decent (and better than google’s picassaweb). Also, it was just about the first big web 2.0 site that had a name that was slightly misspelled.. it was strange then, but is all too common now. Also, the logo is typical of all web 2.0 companies. (Basic text with flashy colors)
Add me, or look at my stuff on flickr (i prefer their system to my system :-P). Username: nmcbean
Web 2.0 is much better than the web as you know it. Anyways I seem to participate in a lot of sites that would be considered 2.0esque. If you have been living in a cave where the interwebs don’t quite reach you, or if you just don’t read as much crap as I do you will not know what web 2.0 is.
Well there actually is no specific technology change between 2.0 and 1.0. Websites just looks different. Web 2.0 websites all are almost normal names, but have nuisances. For example, they will drop a letter or use creative spelling. (flickr instead of flicker, pownce instead of pounce) EVERY website has a funky name. I should probably change my name to http://nat.we.b right now. Then maybe I’d be at least Web 1.5.
Not only do newer websites have snazzy names, but they all also have snazzy interfaces. They use AJAX (asynchronous javascript and xml == in english this means the pages load faster, and are harder to bookmark). They also revolve around SOCIETY. Well, more being social with information. The idea is to make everything better by sharing information and comparing information. This is what make the internet go ’round, connecting to everyone anywhere.
Anyways, there are a number of websites that I really use regularly, and YOU my dedicated readers (all maybe 3 of you), might be interested in trying out one. Not only will I talk about the service, but I’ll link to MY INFORMATION on the service. What a gold mine of information, you can now see how some of my snazzy site features really just pull from other places. For example.. look at the top right. see that “currently” thing? Well I update that by just IMing someone. And here you thought I went here and had to edit the HTML. Pfft not in the year 2007! I’ll even divide this into categories somewhat.
Note that this doesn’t cover websites that I just read. Maybe I’ll talk about that later, but these websites all have some sort of interactivity. This makes them so web 2.0 you might go crazy.
Now this was a huge post with tons of websites and all their information out there, but it was too long. So I have broken it down into mini-posts. This information post marks the beginning. I even created a category for this stuff. Wow, so advanced!
