You might be wondering on what I mean by my title, it’s really simple. According to Selena of New Zealand in her blog entry entitled “Limitations of Web 2.0 Applications in Setting Up Eportfolios”, Web 2.0 technologies have yet to move past the stage of being just “scrapbooks”. Many applications in the web today such as Flickr, Friendster and Picasa may be considered examples of such ”scrapbooks” and suffer from such limitations indicated in the blog, that they are better off as “photo archivals” more than anything else. This is also something that I noticed as a similar quality among many applications. However, I must note that this blog entry was made last year (2006) and these applications may have updated their overall look and feasibility. So for me, it can’t really be a limitation to just be a “scrapbook”. They offer more things that increase the way people interact with the Web than ever before and are still improving over time. Selena’s blog can be found at this site:
http://mportfolios.blogspot.com/2006/05/limitations-of-web-20-applications-in.html
What do you think? Do you feel that such applications still suffer from “Scrapbook syndrome”?
Tags: Blog, Limitations, Web 2.0
