Interactive design

Interactive design is basically defining the actions of products and systems that a person or user can have interactions with or Interaction design can be defined as the interaction of an object or system in response to its users.

Web design examples:

This Design web page is full of amazing illustrations and designs. The web page starts of with a rat talking then you click on the lid then you enter into a world of design by c.reel. In the website the images just roll on by at a nice pace then you can go back and scroll your self if you like. Its a great webpage with a lot of interactive design so check it out.

Other types of interactive design can also be used to sell products to us not just to entertain and website such as valley girl, sports girl and other retail website uses this type of media to allow customers to shop online. (the link is provided on your right)

web 2.0

Web 2.0 summarize the idea of the creation of "interconnectivity" and "interactivity" of web-delivered content. Below is what Tim O'Rielly has summed it up as;

"Web 2.0 is the business revolation in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as a platform, and as attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform".

The comparing below of what Web 2.0 really means by O'Rielly tries to explain the differences as there has been some disagreement on this topic of what it really is but isn't clear enough unless you read the article that have have posted on the link button under Web 2.o article.

Web 1.0   Web 2.0

DoubleClick -- > Google AdScene

Ofto -- > Flickr

Akamai   --> BitTorrent

Mp3.com -- > Napster

Britannica Online --> Wikipedia

Personal websites --> blogging

Evite --> upcoming.org and EVDB

Domain name speculation --> searching engine optimization

Page views --> cost per click

Screen scraping -- > web service

Publishing --> participation

Content management systems -- > wikis

Directories (taxonomy) --> tagging (“folksonomy”)

Stickiness --> syndication 

Just to further explain an example of the 1.0 web and 2.o web really are here are the definitions of them;

1. Google: (Web 2.0)

This basically is a search engine, where you type in key words for information and it will list all the results but the most relevant topics to your key words will be on the first page and so on. 

2. Double click: (Web1.0)

An advertising website. "DoubleClick was first in the online media business -- that is, representing websites to sell advertising space to marketers".(IAN)