WEB 2.0By: Jenna Cavicchia

Brittany Topham

Daniel Driscoll

Bofan Xia

OVERVIEW Intro

3 key aspects

Examples

Core Principles

Threats and Protection

Conclusion

WHAT IS WEB 2.0 Not a definite something

Web 2.0 “refers to the use of the internet for interpersonal content sharing and online service delivery.”

Proceeding Web 1.0, it is the second generation of web development and design.

Features: aids communication, secures information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration.

Web 2.0 sites are more interactive, for example allowing people to tag photos posted online.

THE KEY ASPECTS OF WEB 2.0

1. Interpersonal Computing

2. Web Services

3. Software as a Service (SaaS)

INTERPERSONAL COMPUTING Often credited Timothy Leary It has existed ever since computer

networking was invented. Involves person-to-person interactions

(P2P) facilitated through websites that enable collaborative content creation, sharing and manipulation.

The IC aspects of Web 2.0 are most commonly associated with the development of wikis, blogs, social networking sites, and viral video sites.

INTERPERSONAL COMPUTING CONTINUED… Wikis- websites that allow visitors to easily add,

remove and edit content (Ex. Wikipedia)

Blogs -a chronological, journal-style website where its author maintains an online diary (Ex. Blogger, Technorati)

Social networking sites (SNS)- enable people to build social networks online (Ex. Myspace, Facebook)

Viral video sites- websites that allow anybody to post videos online(Ex. Youtube, Kaltura)

WEB SERVICES Improve quality of

interconnections between different web resources Ex: credit card

payments Mashups made from

embedding code from web service provider into the pages of website accessing the service

Ibm.com

SERVICE ORIENTATED ARCHITECTURE Frequently linked to

web services Business activities

broken down into processes deliverable via a mashup of web services

Loosely coupled Could use web

services to bring companies together

Relaxedpolitics.com

SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE Offers online

services to people, as opposed to web services offering functionality to computers and organizationsGoogle Docs

Aka Rich Internet Applications

Blogspot.com

SAAS/RIA’S CONTINUED SaaS/RIA

developments depend on more complex Internet programming technologies than HTMLEx: Flash Blogs.adobe.com

EXAMPLES OF WEB 2.0

MAJOR EXAMPLES OF 2.0 Youtube Wikipedia Google Facebook My space Blogs

CORE WEB 2.0 PRINCIPLES The web is a platform Harnessing collective intelligence The end of software release cycle Lightweight programming models Software above the level of single

device Rich user experiences

PROTECTION FROM WEB 2.0 DANGERS!

More than just antivirus..

software firewall, antispam, antiphishing, antispyware, anti-rootkit, host intrusion prevention solution

“HoneyJax” emulates user behavior within

Web 2.0 applications to uncover threats before they spread.

Be “street smart”trust no one.. Don’t share more information over the web than you need to.

2005- MySpace Samy worm, cross-site scripting worm

2006- more frequent/larger scale ads on MySpace- Windows Metafile Flaw (WMF) to infect more than one million users with spyware when they merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows.

(up to one in every 600 social-networking pages hosted malware)

several ways to protect yourself:

BENEFITS Used in healthcare

WebMDRecord keeping/sharing

Social networkingBlogs, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter

Important advance in social service deliveryGovernments (Israeli) have their own

pages across Web 2.0

SUMMARY Interpersonal

computing Web services SaaS Examples Core principals

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IF YOU ARE STILL CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT WEB 2.0 IS……..

Questions?

Comments?

SOURCES

http://explainingcomputers.com/web2.htmlWikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0