Social Control
One element of Web 2.0 applications is their use of folksonomy to help categorize information. Folksonomy ultimately helps save money for the developer when users control the content they read, and also increases accountability. With more users online with greater control, those users will keep incorrect information in check in the interest of accuracy and fairness. Websites like YouTube and Wikipedia are heavily dependent on social control. In fact, the vast majority of content on these two websites is based on social control. Users are the ones who upload the content. Users will also tag and categorize the content so the data can easily be found by other users. When other users spot errors, obscene material, or information that is otherwise objectionable, the user has immediate control over the content and can change the problem information instantly without having to wait for a human editor. As a particular application grows more popular, the accuracy will presumably increase as more people correct mistakes within the content they read.
Cost Effectiveness
As the capability of Web software increases, the cost of running a Web application or other website online has actually dropped in comparison. As software becomes more effective and disk space becomes cheaper, the possibilities online will only continue to expand. Moore’s Law was a principle created by Intel co-founder Gordon E Moore in the sixties. Moore’s Law stated that the capability of electronics will continue to grow at almost exponential rates, doubling every two years. When Moore wrote his influential paper, he was actually discussing the capability of transistors, but this law has been applied to many aspects of electronics, most notably hard disk space. Anyone who pays attention to computer technology has probably noticed that computers are getting cheaper and cheaper, and the amount of storage on those computers is getting larger and larger. Moore’s Law describes this increase in storage space and also tells us that, in the future, this trend is likely to continue.
So what does storage space have to do with Web applications? As storage space becomes cheaper to have and maintain, while also getting smaller in size, more companies can rely on Web applications that take up a lot of space. Take, for example, Wikipedia, a site that has literally millions of entries from people all over the world. Wikipedia also stores image, video, and audio files uploaded by users of the program. Fifteen years ago, storing all of this information on a computer would have been too costly for a nonprofit organization, but today this kind of storage space is much cheaper, making Wikipedia a possibility.
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