Web 2 - Birth of Interactive & Responsive Media - Week 4

The technical advancement in web technologies - use of asynchronous JavaScript (AJAX) techniques has offered many features to website to be more ‘responsive’ and ‘easy to interact’ with.

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Whilst web 2.0 fundamentals are still applicable, the internet has really now moved on to a new era where the social web is the centre of most people's experience of the internet. Web 2.0 can be seen as a precursor to this era, which is a more fundamental change that what we saw during the mid-2000s.

In another way it was the birth of the social web. Social sites which allowed sharing of content with large number of users (e.g. Flickr, delicious, YouTube etc.) came to prominence. Yahoo! Answers can be viewed as a web 2.0 sites, as it allowed people to easily create content and interact in a way that didn't exist before.

Pro networking sites, ‘LinkedIn.com’, have come up as a respected domicile to meet new employees, employers or clients, reconnect and fortify relationships with friends and former colleagues, and prime most for career building to the beginner into professional world or to get carrier-related advice.

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As a standardised norms emphasis that the value of any particular site hinges on the number of people using it -- and the quality of those people. It is estimated that roughly more than 20 million people have profiles on LinkedIn. There are some other sites like Spoke.com, are available, but they cater to more specific purposes, even if they have fewer members compare to LinkedIn.

The concern about time commitment, is valid, and shouldn't be overblown, says Barry Parr, a media analyst with Jupiter Research in San Francisco. The more you give quality time in building the profile, more quality result it will generate. It also depends on how much time you're willing to spend making key connections or communicating through the site and building and updating your profile. For an instance, a profile with two connections won't get you very far. Once the profile is developed, with regular time dedicated to the follow-up will fetch great results.

As the time progress the network do progress with additional features and feathers to add on to its’ members cap. These features must first evolve and then adopted assuring its suitability to individual profile.

LinkedIn, for instance, offers service providers a referral feature where they can solicit reviews and referrals from other users. 

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One of the present features called LinkedIn Answers, is a good way to gather feedback from the personnel network about many points pertaining to one’s professional and personal ambiance.

Once you're set up, maintaining your profile often takes just a few minutes each day, but the rewards, will be far going.