[WSG] Web 2.0 Applications

2007-03-08 Thread CK

Hi,

I've an opportunity to create a site specializing in faux finishes.  
This appears to lend itself to a web 2.0 application. Would someone  
provide examples in writing of commercial, preferably art related  
commercial web 2.0 applications?


Interested in
AJAX/DOM
For updating/displaying finish data

Micorformats
possibly to bookmark finishes/collections




Respectfully,
CK



***
List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm
Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
***



Re: [WSG] Web 2.0 Applications

2007-03-08 Thread Breton Slivka
Web 2.0 is a generalized marketing term used to describe a trend. The  
trend it is describing is about sites like flickr, del.icio.us,  
youtube, and even myspace, which utilize the network effect to let  
users produce the content for the website, and generate massive  
communities around content creation.


In what way is faux finishes related to that?
Is the site going to be about people logging in to upload photos of  
their own faux finishes?


If instead, you are referring to the erroneous and frothing mad  
interpretation of the term Web 2.0, that is, to refer to sites that  
use ajax, another misunderstood and only vaguely related marketing  
term, Then, in what way does a site about faux finishes lend itself  
to ajax?


As for the microformats, what do they have to do with bookmarks?

My basic point is, you are approaching the problem of web development/ 
design from completely the wrong direction.  Design the site first,  
and how it should operate, do user testing and user centric design.  
Decide what technologies are needed to achieve that dead last.You  
are doing it backwards. You've decided what technologies you want to  
use first, and seem to be intending to design the site around them. I  
think you will find that if you examine the successful Web 2.0  
sites, that they used the user centric approach, not the technology  
centric approach. That's what's set them apart. Not ajax. Not  
microformats. Not shiny OS X inspired graphics.


-Breton

On 09/03/2007, at 3:27 AM, CK wrote:


Hi,

I've an opportunity to create a site specializing in faux finishes.  
This appears to lend itself to a web 2.0 application. Would someone  
provide examples in writing of commercial, preferably art related  
commercial web 2.0 applications?


Interested in
AJAX/DOM
For updating/displaying finish data

Micorformats
possibly to bookmark finishes/collections




Respectfully,
CK



***
List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm
Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
***





***
List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm
Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm
Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
***