Advantages and disadvantages of web 2.0

Advantages and disadvantages of web 2.0

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  OpenEd Course: Module1: Activity 3 Full Names: Sandra Carina Mano Figueiredo Fernandes (Carinamano) Foteini Vavitsa (Feni_Vi)
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  What are theWeb 2.0 Tools? Applications-Technologies that have contribute to the change of the Internet and the way that the client-server model work. All the means that offer to the web pages the ability to be dynamic and collaborative and to the users the ability to be collaborative and form a web page according to their own needs rather than be passive and just read what web pages creators are writing.
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  What this activityis about? At a previous activity each of the people of this group has made its own list about Web 2.0 Tools of Collaboration that they use in their everyday life, both for job purpose, for communicating or just for fun. For the purpose activity the people of the group had a conversation in which they combined the tools that they both use. In conjunction to that they made some lists about the ways that all those tools have enhanced their everyday life. Finally, because everything has both a good and a bad side, the members of the group discussed about advantages and disadvantages that have discerned throughout the use of the tools. After the end of the discussion the following board has came up:
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  List of Toolsof Collaboration TYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES Search Engines • Google • Yahoo • Altavista Pieces of information, from all over the world. Opportunity to find out about web pages, that otherwise wouldn’t know about. •Provides a Great variety of information, both in number and type, just in one click. •Ability to search information that have appeared recently. •Easy to handle. •Results that do not always adhere to what is asked. •Results’ reliability into question. •Lack of control in the results referring to highly controversial issues (e.g. drugs, anorexia nervosa)
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  List of Toolsof Collaboration TYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •Wiki • Little Wiki • Wikipedia • Edit me •Ability to find information,only in a few seconds and from my apartment, about historical facts and scientific pieces of information that in the past would have to search into books for hours in a public library. •Great variety of entries. •Pieces of information updated frequently. •Ability to search for information in many languages •Depreciation of books and libraries. • Translation which is not of good quality •Translation made voluntarily from users deprivation of occupation.
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  List of Toolsof CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •Bulletin Boards • Forums • Mailing Lists •Easy and quickly response to some questions •Easy help to informatics problems •Analyze different point of views for some matter from different people (and not only specialized people on the theme) •Allow people to participate, create articles which became visible immediately •Allow fast response •Allows other people to complete or correct the information •Dynamic and interactive •Old but useful material remains persistent and easily found (information isn’t ordered only by chronological post) •Normally allow different types of media •The risk of getting wrong information •It can take too long to get the answer •Disagreements may occur and if there isn’t a moderator it can be unpleasant
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  List of Toolsof CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •Instant Messaging • MSN • Messenger • Skype (voip) • eBuddy •Communicate with friends without the need of a telephone. •People can find you only if they know your email address. •Ability to make a call to a friend if they are online, without using a phone appliance. •Ability to share files with friends through the window of communication without the need of email. •Easy contagion of viruses and spams through the windows of communication. •Email addresses tend to be more easy to find from people you may not know and may not want to have a contact with them. •In case of using it at work, it can be distracting, giving the opportunity to talk with people outside the company.
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  List of Toolsof CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •Social Networks •Facebook •Netlog • Myspace • Twitter • Linkedln • Hi5 •Found people that have lost communication with, only by searching their name. •Opportunity to stay in touch with many people without regard to the distance between. •Opportunity to get to know with people from different countries and cultures. •Spend time alternatively. •Easy and cheap. •For an enterprise it’s possible and easy to post advertising •Users profiles and personal information accessible to people that shouldn’t be able to see them. • Uploaded files that everyone can save in their computer and use them. •Lack of privacy.
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  List of Toolsof CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •RSS •iGoogle •Feed Digest •Stay informed throughout the day only for matters that are of the individual’s interest. •No need to constantly searching for news in many web pages, all pages gathered in one. •Get informed about temperature and weather of the city you are staying wherever that is. •Opportunity to adjust the style of your page according to what you like. •Risk to get drift and amass RSS feeds from web pages that you don’t really need. •Not helping in broaden your horizons and find out about new web pages which might be better. •It is not applied yet in all web pages.
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  List of Toolsof CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •Blogs •Blogger •Blogspot •Obtain personal and public information. •Read actualized information from my customers, suppliers and friends. •Follow information through time (development of a project, someone’s trip, friend’s pregnancy) •Share photos, texts, poems, events •Allow diary or even minutely actualization •Share lots of different information at the same place. •For an enterprise it’s possible and easy to post advertising •Everyone can read the information you post, it isn’t private •The possibility to occur disagreements or impolite comments •If the blog is too big or too followed it means huge work to manage the comments
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  List of Toolsof CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •Sharing Websites •Youtube •Metacafe •Ability of access into lots of different material (video, presentation, music) for my work as a trainer •Later viewing of a concert, debate, conference, and so on . •Great Variety of videos that it is not achievable to find everywhere else. •Good quality for image and video •Free to post and share familiar or personal videos •Finding videos with the same subject just by classifying •Possibility to post videos with pornographic, racist or prejudicial nature, scenes of violence. •A way of helping music piracy, in conjunction with free download software that you can easily find on the Internet. •Ability to post only videos that are short in duration, in cases you want to see a video with longer duration you have to search for all of their parts.
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  List of Toolsof CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •Office •Google docs •Dictionary •Make schedule for training sessions is published in Google docs •Using it to sign into groups in courses (e.g. OpenEd Course) •Share photos with friends and family •Share databases with other companies, when needed •Easy sharing documents, photos, schedules, and so on •Possibility to be public or to be seen only for registered members •Possibility to interact with various people through the same document: great for work group •Documents saved automatically to your account and you can read them again and again when needed. •Small storage capacity •Few formatting options •Wait for a long time to load all of the pages, which are never loaded at once and all together.
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  List of Toolsof CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •E-mail •Gmail •Yahoo •Hotmail •For use throughout the day, for almost everything: schedule dinner with friends, send budget to customers, receive orders, receive information about the training groups, send information (reports, news, etc.) •Mail gives the ability to receive newsletters for many resources with very interesting issues, without the need to look at each web page every once in a while. •Easy to use, you may send the same information for various people without revealing the e-mails (through BCC) •Allows excluding spam and another filters •Cheap-Free of charge •Allow attaching lots of documents in different types •Searching for a job: Upload your CV in pages that carry job advertisements and then those web pages send you a daily list of open jobs that may fit to your interests. •The answer isn’t immediate •Easy to send viruses and fraud in inducing •It has become easy for personal data - such as e-mail address- to transpire and become known to spams and businesses that want to create databases, but without permission.
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  List of Toolsof CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •Travel •Booking •TravBuddy •Anyway.com •43 Places •Search for information and opinions about places to visit, prices, airlines, accommodation, transports, important tips, and so on •Online reserve •Get opinion from another people who have already done that trip (especially for hotels and restaurants) •Important tips (prices, transports – metro, train, bus – exchange, non touristic places to visit, etc.) •Attention to security form to pay •Some opinions are too demanding or too lenient
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  List of Toolsof Collaboration TYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •Games •Mahjong online • Poker •No application in professional activities, but fun for sure •Spend time •Have fun •Develop logical and strategic thinking •Dependence and costs •Photograph y •Olhares •Slide.com •Flickr •Photobucket •Curiosity in my case •Share photos •Reveal talents •Show beautiful places •Breach of copyright
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  List of Toolsof Collaboration TYPE OF WEB 2.0 TOOL EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED MY WORK/LIFE ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES •Music •Posdcast netwrok • iLike • iTunes •Easy to get lots of different music •Listening to music •Organize “music library” •Save lots of music •Quick and intuitive navigation •Breach of copyright •Business • London Stock Exchange • Team Viewer •Team Viewer for remote access and repairs on my pc •Send big files •Remote access to others pc •Remote access to others pc
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  To sum up… Technologyis updating every day even more, but always around one standard: give the ability to businesses and every day people to plan their tasks, communicate with friends, collaborate with other people and amass information through every kind of machine that can use the internet. Maybe this is a way to assimilate more easy globalization in our everyday life and downrate distance even more. Maybe it is just one more risk which will make people trapped and without the right to private life. If this new situation is good or bad is too soon to tell. The only thing that is sure is that the only way to apply those new technologies in our everyday life is Web 2.0 Tool. Apart from their advantages and their disadvantages they are the window to what we call Web 2.0 World and a great new experience to follow, at least for now…