What are the features that make this a Web 2.0 Technology?
With cloud computing, students have access to discussion boards, virtual labs, and interactive lectures. With other cloud services, such as google apps, students can collaborate on a single document in real time with one another from thousands of miles away from each other. The beauty and freeing nature of cloud computing takes away the limitations from a single persons computer and enables them to interact with the world without hardware constraints. One of the most widely used tools (that isn't a viral rampage right now) would be google docs, where thousands can collaborate in real time. See the video below that shows how people can edit two documents at the same time over the cloud.
Cloud computing itself is not a dedicated web 2.0 technology, but it breaks down the barriers for millions of people, enabling them to have access to infinitely many web 2.0 tools. The entire world can now be a part of the web 2.0 process. In fact, I believe that we will see an entire movement in the next couple of years from the creation of web 2.0 content. Having an entire part of the world, the impoverished, come into the limelight of free education and content will be a drastic change indeed and is one that we should look forward to. I can predict that we will see a different side of the world when the impoverished become connected and start sharing out across the internet.
To back this fact up, you can look on reddit.com, which is a Web 2.0 technology entirely user content generated. Almost daily you can find thread posts on "life hacks" or "how to eat cheap". There are even subthreads that involve posts strictly for poverty level individuals. It's almost crazy to think that some individuals post about their problems but then you think to yourself "Well how do they have a computer to type all of this if they are impoverished?". This is exactly how cloud computing is changing the world in the form of giving individuals access to web 2.0 tools at a cost that is under $200.
To back this fact up, you can look on reddit.com, which is a Web 2.0 technology entirely user content generated. Almost daily you can find thread posts on "life hacks" or "how to eat cheap". There are even subthreads that involve posts strictly for poverty level individuals. It's almost crazy to think that some individuals post about their problems but then you think to yourself "Well how do they have a computer to type all of this if they are impoverished?". This is exactly how cloud computing is changing the world in the form of giving individuals access to web 2.0 tools at a cost that is under $200.
