Monday, April 26, 2010

My Vision of Web 3.0

When I think about web 2.0, I almost feel as though it doesn't get much better than this. Sometimes people make assumptions that the next generation will be significantly better than the last. While I feel that some improvements can be made to get to Web 3.0, I do not think that we will have virtual interfaces that pop out of thin air just yet.
I think that Web 3.0 will first have some significant improvements in speed, granted a lot depends on the type of laptop one uses and the connections one has. Sometimes though it just depends on the amount of information is being sent from one place to another.
I think that there's a chance that we will start to see the internet show up in other places besides the computers and phones. We even discussed how there is talk that it will begin to show up in washing machines and cars.
I like the idea in the packet about Web 3.0 having making searching for something easier. Maybe we will be able to search for things in groups now, that aren't necessarily related. Imagine how much easier it would be to search for a movie and a restaurant in the same search bar and come up with locations, directions and possible even a menu.
And even though we are starting to see this now, I think that the internet will be smarter, not only giving you options for things that may be related to what you usually look for on the internet, but also just give you more options related to exactly what you tend to look at. Say if i look at a site for a certain game. Maybe my interface will give me a list of other websites with different reviews, features, and paraphenalia for that specific game.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Illustrator Project

The topic for my midterm project was the amatuerish style vs. professional production. In keeping with that I decided to use a few photos from around the web and tweak them to show how an amateur video ends up on a site like YouTube and people from around the word can enjoy it. I used both Photoshop and Illustrator. I like using filter effects a lot so I ended up using a few different ones, the most important being the film grain on the YouTube screen. Most of the time when you see an amateur video it most likely doesn't have a movie quality to it being that it is shot from a personal camera or a webcam so I was attempting to convey that.