Web 2.0 Era
Web 2.0 began with the conference between O’Relliy and MediaLive International. It has come to the note that the web was the more important than ever, with many new exciting applications and sites popping up. The company’s which has survived from the crash of web1.0 has realized that they had something in common. In the way the web 2.0 conference was born.
Many of the companies have started using the word web2.0 as a “buzzword” without even understanding the meaning of it. The questions is different as many of those buzzwords are not even the web2.0 applications.
Web as platform:
Double Click and Akamai were web 2.0 pioneers, yet we see how it is possible to realize that there are many more possibilities by embracing additional web2.0 design patterns.
Netscape Vs Google
Netscape framed the web as platform, but in the terms of old software. The product was the web browser which is a desktop application. It is established to for high price server products. Netscape provided a webtop which is to replace a desktop and planned to populate it with information updates and applets by information providers who will purchase Netscape servers.
On the other hand Google, which began its life as a web application, but delivered the service to the customers for which it was paid directly or indirectly. There is licensing of the software and no scheduled software releases and no updates, but it went on with a steady continuous improvement. Google service is not a server application, but it is delivered by a massive collection of servers.
Both Netscape and Google could be considered as software companies. It is clear that netscape belongs to the companies like oracle or Microsoft whereas Google belongs to the internet applications like Amazon, ebay, etc..
DoubleClick Vs Overture and Adsense
Double click was a pioneer of web services long before web services even had a name. But this was limited to the business model only. In 1990’s the size mattered and that the internet was being dominated by the top websites which were measured by media matrix and other web ad scoring companies. Finally doubleclick had an advantage of citing proudly on its website as over 2000 sucessful implementations of its software.
Google came to an understanding and make all the small website in to a collectively big one and turned into a bulk of web contents. Overture and google figured out how to place ads on virtually any webpage. They have pop-up’s and consumer friendly text advertising.
Akamai Vs BitTorrent
Akamai is same as Double-click and is optimized to do business. It serves the individuals at the web by smoothing their access to a high demand sites at the center.
Bit torrent is a p2p software. Here every host is a server. The files are broken up into fragments that can be reassembled from different locations. If the file is more popular the faster the file the file can be transferred, as there are more hosts which can provide the file with more bandwidth and parts of the file to complete the file.
References
O’Reilly, (2007), Akamai vs Bit torrent, retrieved from http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=2
Web 2.0, (2007), characteristics, retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2#Characteristics