Ask HN: What should I teach freshmen about Web 2.0 (and maybe entrepreneurship)?

#1

Post by QNguyen » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 2:37 AM UTC

I may have the opportunity to teach/TA a 1-unit exploration course at UCLA - the professor and I think Web 2.0 is a good topic to explore but I'm trying to find out what topics/case studies would be good to spark the imagination and future learning. I'm planning on calling in my friend who runs his own FML-type venture, if there's anyone in the LA area who would be willing to come by, drop me a line.

Re: Ask HN: What should I teach freshmen about Web 2.0 (and maybe entrepreneurship)?

#2

Post by volida » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 3:51 AM UTC

I thought Web 2.0 is old news :p

Re: Ask HN: What should I teach freshmen about Web 2.0 (and maybe entrepreneurship)?

#3

Post by QNguyen » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 4:51 AM UTC

volida wrote: post #2

I thought Web 2.0 is old news :p

Maybe I should have been more forward thinking in the terminology :D. Not sure I want to go into speaking about the cloud and moving all our services away from local processing. : )

Re: Ask HN: What should I teach freshmen about Web 2.0 (and maybe entrepreneurship)?

#4

Post by kls » Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 5:05 PM UTC

REST and Javascript, at least a high level, they are the backbone. Also Amazon is a great case study of rethinking business as services. This eventually led to EC2 and S3.