Peer-to-Peer Networks

Peer-to-Peer network could be basically described as a combination of many servers into a single network since each computer in the network has same features. There is no need anymore to have a central server to perform file sharing operations as each computer in the network is able to communicate to each other in P2P networks. Kazaa, Limewire, uTorrent, iMesh, eMule are best-known peer-to-peer file sharing applications in the web. The aim of these websites is basically to create a platform to share files. You can share lots of files such as MP3, videos etc. in these platforms for free!!

Here is a video about what peer-to-peer concept is:

Skype : calling over the internet

Today I will give some general informations about Skype. Skype is a very famous internet application which allows you to talk to somebody else over internet just like you are talking on mobile. The only difference between them is their environment as Skype supports the calls via internet and you need to talk through your computer microphone. Moreover it is free!! I really appreciate Skype as I talk to my family, girlfriend and friends as much as I want thanks to Skype. All I need to do is switching on my computer and running Skype. We can see each other in the webcam as well.
You can use Skype just like mobile if you wish to pay some money monthly as well. To make the long story short, Skype offers us lots of facilities to use.
Skype is used for web conferences which is very essential in business related purposes. Thus Skype could also be implemented in business too.

Skype explanation on Youtube

What is Wiki?

Wiki is basically a kind of website which allows you to edit the website information in order to express your opinion online. Wiki means “very fast” in Hawaiian language (I have read an experience of somebody who has been in Honolulu Airport about how fast the shuttle busses called Wiki Wiki are over there, interesting!:)) Besides its “fast” structure, it is an extremely effective application as everybody can edit the content individually. The most popular wiki is certainly Wikipedia.
The disadvantage of that tool is about that idea: If something wrong is written in webpage, nothing can stop it until somebody else will be corrected that error!! But as many users are visiting the webpage and correct them, it is not a big deal anymore.
Wikipedia is a new collaboration method in companies as well. Company workers can modify the concept according to their ideas and may work electronically in the webpage through wiki. It is just like an online discussion board.

Here is a nice video about Wikis

RSS as collaboration partner of "Blog"

I will continue to mention of RSS today, but today's topic is a little bit different from general RSS concept as the idea is to write about business implementation of RSS with blog collaboration. Blog is an extremely powerful tool to share articles online with the people from all over the world. Nowadays, blog concept is likely to be popular among companies as well since it creates a platform for people to share their ideas as “comments”. The way RSS might be associated with blog, arises from concerns about gaining time. Refreshing blog pages for many times is just waste of time when an efficient tool already exists for that purpose. RSS is an awfully compatible tool which enables user to get latest feeds from somebody else’s blog automatically. Imagine, for example, some implementation in a company. All employees have their own blog and RSS feeding system. As RSS system feeds from all employees blogs in the company, everybody becomes aware of other people’s blog postings. It is a pretty new way of communication.

A Powerful Web 2.0 application : RSS

RSS can be simply described as a XML based web feeding system used for informing internet users about the latest news and additions in a particular webpage. Since RSS became very famous internet tool, its field of application is getting larger and larger with each passing day. Newsletters and blogs are the most popular ones.

RSS offers many facilities by giving recent website updates to users. Thereby there is no need to visit the original website anymore to learn the updates as RSS provides summary of the website in a time scheduled basis. Other important RSS facilities could be easily noticed when RSS is compared with e-mail application. Whatever may be said, nowadays most people would agree that e-mail is not a secure web tool because of spam and virus attacks. Late e-mail delivery and e-mail delivery to wrong recipient are other e-mail issues. Nevertheless one-third of e-mails tend to be blocked by spam filters. Therefore user may not be aware of the latest news of a newsletter, company discount etc. Seen from this aspect RSS is much powerful, safe and regular tool for web feeding operations.

Here is a video from youtube about RSS

A Social Networking Website for Professionals : LinkedIn

Nowadays, there is no way you can find somebody with no idea about Facebook. It is like a sickness(Actually I am suffering from it as well, I hope someone out there can find its treatment:)) Anyway, there is a pretty useful social website called LinkedIn. So why not closing our Facebook window for a minute and look at LinkedIn? The people is likely to find jobs and do recommendations for somebody else through LinkedIn. It is just like an online CV with references.

To learn further about LinkedIn , here is an explicative LinkedIn video

Youtube

Youtube is a platform to share videos by uploading them online. The relentless growth of Youtube is attributed primarly to its usability and efficiency. If you feel like you don't have enough idea about a subject, all you need to do is to search it on Youtube! Hundreds of videos would be appear immediately in your screen after your search. Nowadays, Youtube is the easiest way to reach information you are looking for. You can also watch the videos uploaded by your friend or someone else from all over the world and watch it whenever you want! Amazing!!!

What is social networking?

Social Networking websites like Facebook, Orkut, Hi5 etc became indispensable parts of our daily lives. The rise and rise of Social Networking could be explained by its ease of accessibility. You can keep in touch with your friends from all over the world through these websites or you can find your friends you have never seen each other for many years. From that point of view, social networking websites are fantastic.
But from security point of view, Social Networking is not as fantastic as it sounds. When it comes to security, most people believe that these websites are using their individual informations in order to increase profits of some companies.
Despite all these concerns about security, believe it or not, the total Social networking website users in the world is nearly 1 billion people!! It is huge. Isn’t it? So there is one thing left to do about social networking : ENJOY IT!!:)

A video about Social Networking

Another Web 2.0 Application : Flickr

Flickr is basically a platform to share your photos and videos. You are not only sharing your photos, also tag them as the name of location in order to make your photos appear when someone search the stated location in a search engine like Google. Recent investigations implies that Flickr's database contains more than 3 billion photos!!!
You can see my flickr photos from the widget at the right.

A Flickr video from Youtube:

Mashup and Microsoft Popfly

Mashup is described as new version of "software". Mashup software became very common as a result of its facilities.
Microsoft Popfly is very useful website which allows users (with no programming background) to create mashup easily. Microsoft Popfly offers user to create mashup easily. There are some boxes which signifies other web 2.0 applications. All you need to do is just to connect them via arrows to each other. Then you click on "play" button and it is done!!

The below video shows brief explanation about how to create a mashup on Microsoft Popfly.

NICE VIDEO ABOUT WEB 2.0 BY ZDNET

Here is another useful video which focus on further explanation of Web 2.0 and its applications:

del.icio.us

Delicious is a social bookmarking web application which enables users to create some bookmarks to keep them. What is more, you can share your stored bookmarks with everybody. You can tag your bookmarks in order to make them visible for other people. Thus all the people around the world could see your bookmarking and use them.

You can see my del.icio.us bookmarks at the right side of the page.

Let's watch a very explicative video about del.icio.us

What is Web 2.0?

Hello everybody!!

After I gave up my old Word Press blog and decided to create a pretty new Blogspot blog which allows you to have external widgets, I would like to talk about the aim of this blog.

This blog is created to introduce Web 2.0 features and its popular applications. These applications cover social networking web sites (such as Facebook, Orkut, Hi5) , video and photo sharing web sites (such as Flickr, Youtube) , blogs (such as Word Press, Blogspot), wikis (such as Wikipedia) etc.

According to Tim O'Reilly (creator of Web2.0), Web 2.0 could be simply described like that :

“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.”


Here is a short video of Tim O'Reilly about Web 2.0 definition