Hi Pauric: I see why you are making the connection with the Nova Spivak model. My model is compatible with it but I don't think that my three dimensions map to his.
Spivak is showing a timeline of how technology evolution brings the web to new levels. I agree with his characterization and in my post I tried to outline my view of the technologies that have led to the current web. What I am trying to do with my model is to characterize the web as it exists today. i think of it as Web 2.1 - more evolved than the web 2.0 that O'Reilly described. Think about the types of activities you can do on a web site: 1. You can view content. That's the dimension of the information web. Information architects and publishers would be highly involved with that dimension. 2. You can execute transactions. You can pay for something, execute a search, or perform another transaction. This requires some heavy computing and I think of the service web. 3. You can communicate and collaborate. Post on a blog or do what we are doing right now. That's the relationship web. Any particular web application will probably have all three but in varying amounts. Fo example, YouTube is strong on the information side (lot's of content) and moderate on the relationship side (some community but not really sophisticated). Facebook is high on the relationship web dimension but not particularly focused on content. Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a "utility" that allows programs to obtain as much storage as they requires. So if I have a web application and I need to store a 2GB movie, I can just connect to Amazon and ask it for the storage. They'll bill me monthly for it as long as I use it. That's a service web function. Now if Amazon decided to add a discussion forum so users of S3 could talk about their experiences, that would add more of the relationship web. And if they posted detailed reports on usage, that would bring in the information web. I will say that for me, the value of this model is simply to get everyone on the same page. No model is going to be perfect but people seems to respond to this one when I give talks on Web 2.0 and it helps lay the foundation for further discussion. Charlie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24104 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
