“Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004[citation needed], refers to a supposed second-generation of Internet-based services — such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies — that let people collaborate and share information online in previously unavailable ways.” – Wikipedia
The characteristics of a web2.0 site are:
- “Network as platform” — delivering (and allowing users to use) applications entirely through a web-browser[3][4].
- Users owning the data on the site and exercising control over that data[5][3].
- An architecture of participation and democracy that encourages users to add value to the application as they use it[3][6].
- A rich, interactive, user-friendly interface based on Ajax[3][6].
- Some social-networking aspects[5][3].
So how exactly do I plan to incorporate these concepts into my life? Through this website.
I am going to do an experiment – open source my life. See what happens when a community of users has control over a person in the “real world”. I graduate with a BCom in August of 2007, so that gives us 10 months to figure out an effective and elegant interface, accumulate enough of a community to make it actually happen, and develop an infrastructure that makes this possible. In that time I will slowly transition control of my life over to this website. Sounds pretty intense, doesn’
t it?
Consider this the announcement of Choose Jeremy’
s Adventure BETA.
For this to work, here’
s what we have to do:
- Create a website that will allow users to suggest and vote on what I do. What level of decisions do we want give over to the website? That’s up to you. There just needs to be systems in place that conglomerate, sort, and process data so it’s not overwhelming for you or me. I’m hoping it can eventually be self contained so I could be in France, for example, and be able to communicate to you, and the community of users would be able to communicate with me… without me having to live in Internet Cafés.
- Get enough people interested in the idea so that it will actually work.
If you have any ideas or suggestions, please leave them here!
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