Podcasting And File Sharing: How The Web Is Transforing Itself – Part V

Both podcasting and file-sharing services have become key significant driving forces in the overall new media scenario which is transforming the web. Photo credit: Picpics With the development and advance of recent technologies such as wikis, blogs, podcasting and file sharing this model is challenged and community-driven services are gaining influence rapidly. These new paradigms obliterate the clear distinction between information providers and consumers. The lines between producers and consumers are blurred even more by services such as Wikipedia, where every reader can become an author, instantly. This paper presents an overview of a broad selection of current technologies and services: blogs, wikis including Wikipedia and Wikinews, social networks such as Friendster and Orkut as well as related social services…