All about Web 2.0

The term "Web 2.0" is commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design,[1] and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with each other as contributors to the website's content, in contrast to websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them. Examples of Web 2.0 include web-based communities, hosted services, web applications, social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups, and folksonomies.

The term is closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004.[2][3] Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web. Whether Web 2.0 is qualitatively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, who called the term a "piece of jargon"[4] — precisely because he specifically intended the Web to embody these values in the first place.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Social Networking Website - Facebook

Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 and operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. Anyone age 13 or older can become a Facebook user.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[6] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include (potentially) any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The original concept for Facebook was borrowed from a product produced by Zuckerberg's prep school Phillips Exeter Academy, which for decades published and distributed a printed manual of all students and faculty, unofficially called the "face book". The website currently has more than 400 million active users worldwide.[7][8]

Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Pakistan,[9] Syria,[10] China,[11] Vietnam,[12] and Iran.[13] It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.[14] Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.[15] The site has also been involved in controversy over the sale of fans and friends.[16]

A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.[17] Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade 'best-of' list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"[18]

At the All Things Digital conference in June 2010, Zuckerberg was asked if he expected to remain CEO if the company went public. Zuckerberg said he did, adding that he doesn't "think about going public ... much." He said he did not have a date in mind for a potential IPO.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

Social Networking Website on Fashion - TAGAZINE

甚麼是TAGAZINE

TAG + MAGAZINE = TAGAZINE

TAG可以代表互聯網的「標籤」，可以代表時裝上的TAG
TAGAZINE，的概念就是戶聯網上的FASHION MAGAZINE….

不，我們不應該再說MAGAZINE這個字。
這個年代，網上是不應該有MAGAZINE。應該都統稱叫TAGAZINE

TAGAZINE.COM 我十分喜歡這個名。
TAGAZINE.COM 就是給用戶為身上的衣著潮物加TAG的網站。

從構思這個網至今，花上超過一年時間，相類似的網站亦相繼冒起。
最後我連工也辭掉，專心做這件事，是為了一個原因...

從中四那年開始，我就學習做網頁，那時科網股最熱。
從班網做起，最後做過有十幾萬會員的網站。
由HTML，PHOTOSHOP, AI 開始，到C++, perl , PHP，甚至做3D 動畫的Maya一直都是自學。
我自學的原因其實只有一個，是我認為，要將概念變為現實，大部份情況下是要靠媒體或媒介去展現。
要完全將自己想法變成現實，只有自己一雙手才最可靠。
自己落手做每一件事，不受媒體束搏，這才是一種藝術。
從少到大，我就是喜歡自己動手將想法和意念變成實物。
我不是喜歡電腦，喜歡互聯網，我是喜歡親手做出任何東西。


然而，對於戶聯網和媒體。
我曾經有很多構想，而那些構想再其後十年相繼出現。

但是，我現在說，只會有人說我吹水，因為現在已經出現了的東西，我怎說都可以。
就是這個原因，我明白，做人不可以只說不做。
只說不做就是等如沒有發生過。

做人應該說了便做。人生之中太多東西說過，但做過的太少。
在構思這個網的過程中，面對不少問題，即使以有相近的網站，我仍堅持至今，就只有這個原因。

說了很多廢話，開始具體介紹甚麼是TAGAZINE

我個人很喜歡TAGAZINE這個字，喜歡到我要用一個能夠接受但不便宜的價錢買下這個名字。

TAGAZINE是透過用家和管理員上載相片，然後TAG身上所穿的衣物。
用家在瀏覽其他會員相片時系統會顯示其他相關相片和TAG的簡介。

而每一個TAG，則可由用家去提交「定義」。
TAG，可以是品牌名稱，可以是設計師名稱，可以是FASHION TERMS，可以不知名的，可以是知名的。
因為每一個TAG也有其獨特性，所以「用家定義」可以為大眾介紹更多名氣不高的好設計。

由申延開去，這個網的玩法會有很多。
亦會在未來幾個月續步推出。

Source:http://simyip.blog.my903.com/index.php?blogId=110

Social Networking Service - Blogs

A blog (a portmanteau of the term "web log")[1] is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (Video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112,000,000 blogs.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs

Social Networking Website - Twitter

Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read other user messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default, however senders can restrict message delivery to their friends list. Users may subscribe to other author tweets — this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers.

As of late 2009, users can follow lists of authors instead of following individual authors.[4][5] All users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as, for smartphones), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries.[6] While the service is free, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users worldwide[7]. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet."[8] The use of Twitter's application programming interface (API) for sending and receiving SMS from other applications often dominates the direct use of Twitter.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Definition - Social Networking Service

A social network service focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. A social network service essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services.

Most social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Although online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.

The main types of social networking services are those which contain category places (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook, Bebo and Twitter widely used worldwide; MySpace and LinkedIn being the most widely used in North America;[1] Nexopia (mostly in Canada);[2] Bebo,[3] Hi5, Hyves (mostly in The Netherlands), StudiVZ (mostly in Germany), iWiW (mostly in Hungary), Tuenti (mostly in Spain), Decayenne,Tagged, XING,[4] Badoo[5] and Skyrock in parts of Europe;[6] Orkut and Hi5 in South America and Central America;[7] and Friendster, Mixi, Multiply, Orkut, Wretch, renren and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands and Orkut and Facebook in India.

There have been some attempts to standardize these services to avoid the need to duplicate entries of friends and interests (see the FOAF standard and the Open Source Initiative).

Although some of the largest social networks were founded on the notion of digitizing real world connections, many networks focus on categories from books and music to non-profit business to motherhood as ways to provide both services and community to individuals with shared interests.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service