Posts Tagged ‘web-2.0’

[ technology ] Yahoo Live: A Youtube Killer?

February 9th, 2008 6 Comments

When youtube combined videos and the Internet and elevated it to Web 2.0, it made waves. Now, another player is preparing to surf those waves and hopes it won’t wipeout.

Yahoo Live made its debut last Feb 8, 2008. Due to a LOT of traffic, they had to do several downtimes. A good sign, mayhaps.

Now what the $*#&@ is Y! Live?

In a nutshell, it’s youtube on overdose – it allows you to make streaming, LIVE video channels and cater to your viewers or fans. Here’s what the folks at the Y! Live official blog have to say about this new service “How is Y! Live different from other online video sites? That’s simple: it’s live. What you’re watching, right now, is what other people are watching, right now. We wanted to create an experience that takes us back to live television, where things are happening now, in real time.” said Michael Quoc, Yahoo Director for Advanced Products.

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Understanding Web 2.0

January 31st, 2008 2 Comments

Ever since the term “Web 2.0” was coined in 2005, it has become a buzz word and is used by both techies, marketers and everyone who wants to get a piece of the pie which is the world wide web.

Google has over 74 million instances of it. But what exactly is Web 2.0? My goal is to simplify the vast collective information about it so far. Join me as I attempt to explain it in layman’s terms and maybe you or your company can benefit from it.

Let’s start with the definition of Web 2.0. Wikipedia lists it as “the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.” This was according to Tim O’Reilly’s famous September 2005 post.

More details after the jump.

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