Details about Web 2.0

1. WEB 2.0
Second generation of internet based services
Intractive information sharing
It include tools that let people collaborate and
share information online

2. Examples of Web 2.0
Hosted services
Web applications
Social Networking sites
Video­sharing sites
Wikis
Folksonomies
Blogs
Mashups

3. Characteristics
Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just
retrieve information
It allows users to run software­applications entirely
through a browser.
These sites may have an "Architecture of
participation" that encourages users to add value
to the application as they use it.

4. Technology Overview
Web 2.0 draws together the capabilities of client­
and server­side software, content syndication and
the use of network protocols.
Andrew McAfee used the acronym SLATES to refer
to them
S­Search, L­Links, A­Authoring, T­Tags, E­
Extensions, S­Signals

5. Search­Finding information through keyword search.
Links­connects information together into a
meaningful ecosystem
Authoring­The ability to create and update content
Tags­Categorization of content by users
Extensions­Software that makes the Web an
application platform as well as a document server.
Signals­The use of syndication technology such as
RSS to notify users of content changes.

6. AJAX
The technology that used in web 2.0 development
are Asynchronous Javascript and XML(AJAX),
Adobe flash, and the Adobe flex frameworks

7. WordPress
WordPress is an open source blog publishing
application powered by PHP and MySQL.
It has many features including a plugin architecture
and templating system
It is a powerful blog software in use today

8. Features
It has a templating system which includes widgets
that can be rearranged without editing PHP or
HTML code
Themes can also be editied for more advanced
customizations
It has a rich plugin architecture which allows users
and developers to extend its functionality beyond
the features that come as part of the base install.