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With Web 2.0 swiftly becoming a tired-out buzz word that really only offers a bunch of basic tenets of our generation's expectations of the web, there are more and more ways for money to be made online. Being intensely interested in graphic design (hence me being in the DTC program at WSU), I take from this article a number of things.


Regarding the Web as a platform, I wonder if one day perhaps there will be a premium industry-standard way of designing imagery that's available on the web as opposed to programs that are run off of a hard drive. It seems implausible, unlikely, and unusual, but that's what Web squared is all about- defying convention and really pushing the envelope with what services are available online. We're already seeing mass-distributed ways to teach and profess the finer arts and nuances of using the current standard creative programs, all available as video streams online. It's making the self-taught freelance graphic artist much more likely to succeed. A big social movement to develop an open-source, web-based design program would be a dream come true for the strapped-for-cash design wannabe like myself. Gimp is a great alternative, but far from the industry standard that is Photoshop, and not web-based.

Unfortunately the web probably isn't a good medium for design, unless applications somehow gain a level of fidelity that we're not familiar with from the internet. It's a pipe-dream I suppose.

The coolest web application I've seen lately is Prezi. I bet microsoft has lost a lot of business from Powerpoint because of it. In retrospect, Powerpoint has always been great but I can't see why it's taken this long for a web-based, free application to take its place.

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