Google Labs Pt. 2 and Web 2.0 & Webware

In my last blog, I posted about the Google labs, Google Docs, spreadsheeets and so on.... but didn't realize that that part of the 27 Things project was linked to the Web 2.0 vs.Webware thing... So, when I went to my 27 Things progress log and saw that I needed to blog about it all in one blog, I had to come back and write another blog containing all three things in this week's set...
Read the last blog to read my thoughts on the Google Docs part. This is just about what I thought of Web 2.0 and Webware.
Honestly, as I go thru all these, I often find myself a little confused. And, eventhough I am trying to immerse myself in these topics, I don't spend ALOT of time on any of them... Just enough to get the gist of it, maybe experiment a little, and then move on to the next topic. So, my blogs probably seem a little vague and lacking in any real insight. But, I promise you that I have really tried to get the concept of each thing.

That said, I am moving on...
I went to Web 2.0 and clicked on 'travel'. I clicked on www.realtravel.com and it sent me to a really good site. It was clear and easy to navigate, it had a lot of really good info and I thought it would definitely be helpful if/when planning a trip. After that, I clicked on 'books' and of course, ran into 'Library Thing', which we learned about earlier in the 27Things list. Pretty cool how it's all linked together. Also, I found www.biblio.com, which is a really good site to find and order out of print books. This is particularly helpful for libraries and people like myself who often dig books that are old or out of print and almost impossible to find. So, that was an interesting find.

Webware, on the other hand, was a little more confusing. Maybe I just need things to be super simple, even 'dumbed-down' for me because I'm not that comfortable with this stuff, yet. But it was less clear and not so easy to navigate and I ended up just skimmin over it and giving up. Web 2.0 was definitely easier and more fun to play with.