What is Web 2.0?
An engaged interactive internet
A term used to talk about the interactive nature of the Internet and how applications can be transfered from desktop applications and used in the Broswer format. Sometimes referred to as Web Based applications. A few good examples might be: UTube, Flicker. Web 2.0 applications see users as participants that contribute to the evolution of the Web and Web services. The following terms are used when talking about Web 2.0
RIA refers to rich internet applications, or programs that run within a browser such as Firefox and Internet Explorer.
SOA- Service Oriented Architecture
A Mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool; a typical example is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real-estate data from Craigslist, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally envisaged by either source.
Social Networking- the end user( the person using the computer)m not only interacts using the applications but also contributes to it. Examples such as wiki's, blogs, podcasts, and classroom 2.0 engage the users in the on-going process.
Tag based delivered media-by applying tags or headings to pages makes it is easier to sort .
Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and IceRocket.
Basically, what "Ajax" means is "Javascript now works." And that in turn means that web-based applications can now be made to work much more like desktop ones.
Innovation and open source products that have included more collaboration on the web, Examples include; Wiki's, Blogs, delicious, Flicker, Dig, Technorati
Webbased Applications- web-based applications are a big component of Web 2.0. Things you used to have to put in a cd to accomplish you can now do right inside the internet browser.
Check out the following video to get a explanation of how the web has changed and the tools that support it. http://www.googlelittrips.com/
The best way to understand the internet of today and how it is different from the internet five
years ago...
in the past I read web pages...now I participate in websites!
chat paks...wiki...blog...podcasts...flicker...digital scrapblogs...smalltalk...Alice...delicious...video confernce..skype...interactive browsers...dig...social networking
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