Open Social Web – exploring new dimensions

What is open social web? Has it been formally recognized by any agency or is it just a technical jargon that slipped out of some techie’s fingers? If you are an active participant in the technology driven era you must know what it is and more than that where it is heading.

Open Social Web is the term that tries to explain the technology incorporated and space occupied by various social media software applications like Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Youtube and many more. Such platforms make available to the people some free services and resources to communicate and share data. Community websites and portals are popular examples of Open Social media.

What is new in Open Social Web is the release of new applications to aid the open resources. These applications are primarily made available to aid the users for exploring new features. Such releases have come up as incentives to further retain the users and make services popular.

From simple mails and chat messengers the Open Social Web now has integrated different technologies to enhance the interactivity and sharing of resources with others. The VoIP services, photo and video sharing, community networks, etc., have added new dimensions to the open sources. If we take Skype as an example, the company started with basic services and has been releasing new features and add-on components of its already launched products. Research and design as such is being consistently pursued. Not only does it add value to the existing product or service, but the added feature or component can itself start a new service.

One of the main concerns faced by many Open Social web resources is the privacy of the users. Some such resources let certain content pertaining to the user be displayed to all. The issue of using the technology for unethical practices has further raised alarms. All this is keeping the experts on their toes to come up with timely solutions and hence advance the media to face yet new challenges.