Saturday, June 14, 2008

Web 2.0 - Read Write Web

Web 2.0 is still a buzzword for many people. There is a significant shift in the thinking after web 2.0 hits the internet world. Tagging a media content, personalizing the content based on user profile, making a peer to peer network instead of centralized accessing had never been easy with web 1.0. We call it a read web.

According to the O'Reilly media:

"Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them."

In short web 2.0 is a read write web. Whether you are uploading a video content on you tube or participating on eBay community, doing online auctions or creating online documents using Google apps or creating pages on wikipedia or blogs, all these applications uses web 2.0 technologies extensively.

Some of the principles governing web 2.0 may be highlighted as:


















Some of the technologies fuelling the web 2.0 are: portals, AJAX, Flex, web services, PHP, MySql, XML etc.

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