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THE NEW THE BEST AND THE WORST Page 11THE NEW THE BEST AND THE WORST January 2007 Collected by Pim Borman SW Indiana PC Users Group Inc. Web 2.0 Revisited. As you must have heard by now TIME Magazine has pronounced YOU the person of the year 2006. Before you grin proudly at yourself in the Mylar mirror on the cover of the endyear issue you may contemplate some of the company you are keeping: Hitler Stalin (twice) Khrushchev and Nixon (and also incidentally George W. Bush twice]). In other words being chosen is based on your impact on world affairs not necessarily approval. TIME has chosen YOU because of the influence that usergenerated content on the Web is having on art politics and commerce through Weblogs YouTube movie uploads MySpace Second Life and such other instant gigadevelopments. One can argue the merits of all these individual contributions but there is no question that they have been influential in some instances. Unfortunately the editors refer to all this hullabaloo as Web 2.0 confusing some of its manifestations with the underlying server technology. As I mentioned in my November 2006 column Web 2.0 is a protocol that makes it possible to establish a continuous connection between a server and a client so that it appears to the client (you) as if the server (Google for instance) is a drive of your computer until you log out of that server. This provides the instantaneous responsiveness that enables the cooperative environments of YouTube MySpace etc. Google has set itself up as a leading promoter of Web 2.0 technology with services such as Google Earth and Picasa. According to The Economist (yearend 2006) Arizona State University has turned over the email system for its 65000 students to Google'sGMail an easy change since half of the students were already using it privately anyway. The Google package (still in beta) also includes instant messaging and a calendar and provides features not previously available in the University's email system. The U ...

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