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Web 2 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2 Influencers by Bradley L Jones(Book Review) - Chapter 4

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Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers by Bradley L. Jones, Chapter 4

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Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Web-2-0-Heroes-Interviews-Influencers/dp/0470241993/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224483069&sr=1-5

 

Quote: “The best, most innovative ideas, we haven’t even come close to seeing yet.”

 

 

Learning Expectations:

 

I expect to learn how Gina Bianchini used the Web 2.0 to implement the Ning.com which is taking people by storm. It has given the users the flexibility and freedom to make their own specifications and preferences when making their social networking system at the web. I also expect to learn how Gina Bianchini and Ning.com blended together with the main ingredient called Web 2.0.

 

Review:

 

On the 4th Chapter of the Web 2.0 E-Book it discusses about Gina Bianchini and her impact and place in the popularly known Ning.com. Together with Marc Andreessen, they both breathed life into Ning.com which is one of the most dynamic social networks in the world. Let’s first talk about what Ning.com is really about. It is a social networking site that lets the users create their own site which they can design with their own specifications and preferences. This flexibility gives the users the freedom to do anything they would like and everything that they want to talk and discuss about. This freedom is one of the ways why Ning.com has popularized through its launch ever since. People wanted a way to make things their own and do things that they would take out from their own minds. If a girl wanted to talk about some girl stuffs, she could do a social networking site about stuffs that interests girls and make a template about it with her own likes such as pink, flowers, make-up, and the like. While if a boy wanted to talk about boy stuffs, he could make a site which talks about basketball, computer games, gadgets, pretty girls, and such. Another great feature of Ning.com is that people can also just join a current social network and would not have the difficulties on making a site for their own.

 

            As commented by Gina Bianchini in the interview, the big, gigantic systems integration that is making its mark in the world is nearing its end. That is due to the fact that many are now in to the idea of having small but very flexible systems that copes up to the demands of the users across the globe. Being bulky and colossal is very difficult for an integration system because it is not possible for it to bend and flex to what the users and people want. It is difficult for it to move because of its size which is as we all know is not very mobile. A much leaner and smaller integration system has all the luxury to bend and flex to what the people are wanting. With the everlasting changes on what people wants and needs in this world, people who gives service should keep in mind that they should always be ready to cope up with the changes. Those who can cope with the variations of the wants and needs of the people is the one who will succeed in the future and take the crown as the most successful.

 

            With the speed of the technology nowadays are in a rate that is difficult to cope up and be synchronized with, people who stays and spends too much time with it is due in time will be irrelevant. The layers of coordination and centralization don’t apply anymore because of the speed of change in the technologies. A trend in a specific month or maybe weeks might change in just a flick of a finger or so. The way people do things and use things set the trends that are revolutionizing the world. The speed of technology is also gauged from the wants and needs of the people who are in constant revolution and change. People ever since had the nature to change everything in their mind in just a quick moment or so. They can not make up their minds and always sees to it that change is just around the corner. They can not settle for a trend for a long time because of this human nature.

 

 

 

 

All of these things are ingredients and causes for Gina Bianchini to use to implement in the Ning.com. It has also the ideology of what the Web 2.0 really is. It pertains to the speed of changes and the development in the web by the people who uses and implements it. With these things in their minds, Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen have developed the Ning.com for the users. They gave the users the freedom to do almost anything they want regarding something that interests them. This is how they used the Web 2.0 to their advantage and gave the people what they truly want and need.

 

 

Lessons Learned:

 

I have learned how Gina Bianchini used the Web 2.0 to their advantage and made one of the most popular social networking sites in the world. They used the ingredients of the Web 2.0 to make something improve and help change the way people think of the trends in the world.

 

 

 

 

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