Millard.+Web+2.0

=Millard, David E., and Martin Ross. "Web 2.0: Hypertext by Any Other Name?"=

University of Southhampton (2006). Web. 18 Mar. 2011. <[]>.

Abstract
"Web 2.0 is the popular name of a new generation of Web applications, sites and companies that emphasis openness, community and interaction. Examples include technologies such as Blogs and Wikis, and sites such as Flickr. In this paper we compare these next generation tools to the aspirations of the early Hypertext pioneers to see if their aims have finally been realized" (Millard).

Argument
Millard and his co-author Martin Ross take an evaluative look into how Web 2.0 has met the aspirations previously set by pioneers of web applications. Millard argues that the aspirations set by Web 1.0 and early generations of the web have not been incorporated into Web 2.0. Miller goes on to explain the aspirations and their purpose as set by earlier pioneers. These previously set aspirations include: context search, context search, structural search, trails, composition, dynamic content and structure, typed n-ary links, navigational structures, entity and network versioning, private annotation, global collaboration, extensibility and personalization. In Millard’s analysis of previously aspirations, he found that Flickr, WordPress and MediaWiki had met and exceeded the aspirations. Flickr allows anyone to upload a picture and share it with the World Wide Web. Afterward, anyone in the world is able to search through Flickr with a content, context and structural search. He found that versioning which is “storing a retrievable history of a node, so changes can be reversed and branches managed” (28), is least supported by Web 2.0. On the other hand he found that extensibility is “universally supported” (30) and “all systems reflect personalization” (30), from FaceBook to Google.

Key Passages
Millard analyzes how the Web 2.0 has lived up to the aspirations for the world wide web set in the past:

"This is the all part of Web 2.0 philosophy of trusting the wisdom of the crowds, and fostering value through participation. This approach is directly in line with the aspirations of the early hypertext community" (29).

"Web 2.0 is not totally analogous to the vision of the early hypertext pioneers, mainly because the attributes that they were seeking are not available ubiquitously across all the systems of the Web. It is almost as if Web 2.0 has purposely rejected some of those old aspirations, and the assumptions that went with them..." (30).

Selected Works Cited
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George H. Collier, Thoth-II: hypertext with explicit semantics, Proceeding of the ACM conference on Hypertext, p.269-289, November 1987, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

H. C. Davis, D. E. Millard , S. Reich , N. Bouvin , K. Grønbæk , P. J. Nürnberg , L. Sloth , U. K. Wiil , K. Anderson, Interoperability between hypermedia systems: the standardisation work of the OHSWG, Proceedings of the tenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and hypermedia : returning to our diverse roots: returning to our diverse roots, p.201-202, February 21-25, 1999, Darmstadt, Germany.

José Kahan, Marja-Ritta Koivunen, Annotea: an open RDF infrastructure for shared Web annotations, Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web, p.623-632, May 01-05, 2001, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Mark Bernstein, Patterns of hypertext, Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia : links, objects, time and space---structure in hypermedia systems: links, objects, time and space---structure in hypermedia systems, p.21-29, June 20-24, 1998, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Siegfried Reich, Leslie Carr , David De Roure , Wendy Hall, Where have you been from here? Trials in hypertext systems, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.31 n.4es, Dec. 1999.

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