Web 2.0Rich User Experiences

RIA (Rich Internet Applications)

Adobe Flash Player

Java

Ajax

Adobe player : The RIA

Benefits to the user e.g. Adobe

flash Adobe flash is installed on 98% of personal computers and more than 450 million devices

Provides a greater reach for the user.

Custom filters and effects.

Built up from a wide range of programmes .

80% of online videos use adobe flash to be viewed.

FlickrImage and video hosting website

Community of sharing and visual dialogue through photographs and linking

Online photo management and sharing application

Claims to host more than 4 billion images

Features of flickrInteraction and Compatabilty

Access Control

Organizr

Map Sources

Filtering

User benefits of flickr

Easy-to-use interface

Tagging

Folksonomy

Easy access to photos

Google MailWeb mail service created in 2004.

Originally launched as invitation only but became available to general public on February 7th 2007.

Since July 2009 has had 146 million users a month.

Features of Google Mail

June 2005- Gmail labs- new and experimental features such as book marking emails and custom keyboard shortcuts.

December 2005- Gmail mobile free service available for mobiles and smart phones.

Advantages to users

Less spam- filters spam mail

More storage- 7350 MB

Gmail chat- save chats, no special software required.

FacebookFounded by then university students, Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes & Dustin Moskovitz

A social networking website

Written and visual accounts of the daily lives of its users

Features of Facebook

Chat

Applications (games, features)

Notifying the user

Uploading & tagging photos

Comments & Feedback (statuses, notes, photos)

Groups and Fan profiles

Improvements to the user interface

of FacebookNews feed & Live feed

Photo upload browsers ( new & old)

Bookmarking pagesOld uploader New uploader

Rich User Experiences Have

Been ExistentMany capabilities now being explored have been around for many years

Netscape and Microsoft both had a similar vision of what is now being realised

Battle over standards to be used made cross-browser applications difficult

Browser Wars

VS

Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome e.t.c

Microsoft eventually wins browser wars (who remembers Netscape?)

Become single de-facto browser standard to write to

No destructive obstruction to progress since 90’s

Consumers can expect much more rich user applications in future (improvements to Google docs, Gmail, windows 7 e.t.c)