What’s the point of the widget?
Which one’s will stick around? After receiving the requirements for our blog entries, I started to begin to add some bells and whistles to my blog. Tags here. Links there. Blogstorm. Clouds. Etc.
It seems that a lot of these new bells and whistles won’t last. The useful ones will obviously stay. I.E. linking. However, when it comes down to items of the 2.0 generation that won’t last there seem to be some obvious widgets that get in the way of the media consumption process.
One widget in particular has stopped me a time or two. The scroll over function in which as your mouse scrolls over a link it pulls up a preview of what the page will look like. This function has interupted my reading a time or two, and sometimes gets in the way of the blogging process instead of enhancing the viewing pleasure.
And what is the point of the calendar? Will these widgets last? During technological progression there is always an invention that might seem as though it had staying power but do not pan out. If bloggers had a glass ball in order to look into the future which parts of generation 2.0 would still be there.
Video has become one of the biggest successes on the Internet. The connection it brings to the consumer is invaluable. Is there enough space for these videos to last? I think so. The blog roll while interesting, may change. I think it doesn’t quiet have the practicality it needs to make it to the next generation.
As technology changes on the Internet certain functions will be adapted or left in the dust, can’t wait to see what lies ahead.
