Web 2.0 and Podcasting where is this heading?

Web 2.0 is a new revolution evolving in the world wide web where knowledge is created through greater human interactions. This is evident as online communities such as blogs, social networking, and wiks sprung out. Examples such as facebook and wikipedia are probably the most noticeable over the last half decade. However although web 2.0 may be perceived as a new generation of world wide web, the technical aspect side remains unchanged in comparison to previous web technologies. But with increasingly higher internet users and better efficient web technologies, we can see a drastically increase in terms of users and quality of networking sites in the future such as a easier more sophisticated version of wikipedia or facebook, one could even be accessed remotely on other mediums other than a computer like PDAs or cell phones.

Podcasting similarly have seen a huge increase in popularity recently in the past half decade. This is mainly due to the fact that broadband Internet users. Podcasting involves collecting digital media files that are distributed over the Internet which is playable on multimedia devices such as computers. The reason why pod casting were mostly unknown a decade again was mainly due to the small broadband Internet users. Video files usually are greater in sizes compare to image and audio files. Thus podcasting was only widely available as a convenient way to distribute video files when internet users began the switch from convention dial up to broadband. In the future with he arrival of even faster broadband Internet service, expect pod casting videos to be in even higher in sound and video quality.