Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Web 2.0 –Is this Hype or a Reality

Web 2.0 described as “Web as a Platform” , is a Buzzword making news everyday , It is not a specific technology but implies two step paradigm shift. The definition seems to be out of Sync as it conveys as though the Web was not a Platform earlier and is being viewed as one now, But reading between the definition it is clear that that the Web mattered again after the Bubble and lots of new items were getting added to make the user experience more appealing and further strengthen the power of Web

Web 2.0 is synonymous with Ajax,RSS, DHTML,Javascript,RIA,Flex,Flash ,Blogs etc etc but all these by itself cannot make an effective user experience solution , What the Web 2.0 can achieve is an increased user satisfaction like it can enable Internet users to author their own content. Personalization is another big topic in Web 2.0 ,Blogs which is a big evolution from Web 2.0 is a good way to personalize media content and hence is a good reflection of ones own thoughts . Web 2.0 is all about social computing and is a fusion of Media ,Digital and Web technologies

I think web 2.0 has lots of good things to offer and we need to look at how this can be applied for productivity improvements rather than dismissing this thought as a hype. Google Maps are a good example where their API rich interface allows developers to overlay any data onto any place, The Developers need not bother about the mapping system and populating geographical data but can focus on source and how to overlay it. Although the usage of API’s is not new what is different is definetly the simplicity with which it is built

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Monday, May 08, 2006

Document Management and Content Mangement - How are they Different

EDMS Systems help organise both paper and electronic files to manage accesibility ,security and document integrity while CMS systems helps enterprise to manage content in a secure controlled way

Document Management systems only controls the outer shell of documents , while content management manages the chunks of information within the document .Content management enables a much finer level of operation on the data.

Although both systems provide security, versioning ,search and access control,content management offers the added functionality of content reuse ,custom attributes ,structure and XML tagging

posted by sujatha visweswara @ 6:21 AM 0 comments