Web 2.0 Introduction
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Web 2.0 technologies deliver software as a continually-updated service that improves as more people use it. It allows users to consume and remix data from multiple sources while also providing their own data for others to use. Web 2.0 uses a participatory architecture that goes beyond the page format of Web 1.0 to provide rich, interactive experiences for users. Common Web 2.0 tools include blogs, wikis, social networking sites, podcasts, and social bookmarking.
Web 2.0 Introduction
- 1. Web 2.0 Technologies Web 2.0 is the network as platform , spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources,
- 2. including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an " architecture of participation ," and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences .
- 3. 1. Web 2.0 use network as a platform as it deliver or receive applications thoroughly via a browser. 2. Users gets, manipulates and controlled the data on the site. 3. Participatory architecture in which user can add or edit value to the application according to their requirement. 4. A rich, interactive, user-friendly interface based on Ajax or similar frameworks. 5. Some social-networking aspects. 6. Enhanced graphical interfaces such as gradients and rounded corners (absent in the so-called Web 1.0 era).
- 4. Usage of Web 2.0 After emerging of Web 2.0, it is being vastly used because of its wide range of variety and very attractive features. Descriptive list of Web 2.0 tools are endless even though we can say that the new generation of Internet approximately uses its tools. Web 2.0 tools include Weblogging, Wikis, Social networking, Podcasts, Feeds, Social bookmarking, and Cascading Style Sheet. The Approach behind using Web 2.0 is different. Some uses it accidentally as for browsing purpose. Some uses it to fulfill theirs’ job because they need it. Some uses it by curiosity as they want to check it and some uses it by default as they have no knowledge about it. Overall, many people and companies use it but they don‘t know why? The reason may vary, but its utility is still undoubted.
- 5. Technical Overview Web 2.0 has a complex and growing technology that includes server-software, content-syndication, messaging- protocols, standards-based browsers with plugins and extensions, and various client-applications. All these differ in functions and approaches but provide all the requirements beyond the expectation such as information- storage, creation, and dissemination capabilities.
- 6. A web 2.0 website may usually feature a number of following techniques: * Rich Internet application techniques, optionally Ajaxbased * Cascading Style Sheet, CSS * Semantically valid XHTML markup and the use of Microformats * Organization and collection of data in RSS/Atom * Clean and meaningful URLs * Excessive use of folksonomies (in the form of tags or tagclouds)
- 7. * Use of wiki software either completely or partially (where partial use may grow to become the complete platform for the site) partially, e.g. the LAMP solution stack * XACML over SOAP for access control between organizations and domains * Blog publishing * Mashups (A mix up of content and Audio usually from different musical style) * REST or XML Webservice APIs.
- 8. Rich Internet applications The new feature included in the Web 2.0 based application in which user does not need to refresh the page, the whole page or a portion of page get refreshed automatically like in some real time web page. E.g. Cricket websites, Share Market etc. Some of the richinternet application techniques are Ajax, Adobe Flash, Flex, Nexaweb, OpenLaszlo and Silverlight and many more.
- 9. Server-side software Web 2.0 application server functions on existing web server architecture but strongly depend on back-end software. The weaving of software varies only nominally due to methods of publishing via using dynamic content management but web services usually need highly vigorous database and workflow support. It has analogues to traditional intranet functionality of an application server. Vendor moves towards to date fall either under a universal server approach or under a web-server plugin approach. (A universal server refers to a common server that bundles most of the necessary functionality in a single server platform while under a plugin refers to standard publishing tools enhanced with API interfaces and other tools.)
- 10. XML and RSS Web 2.0 supporters consider the syndication of site content as a Web 2.0 feature includes because it standardized protocols that allows users to implement data for other purpose like for using another website, a browser plugin or a separate desktop application. XML based protocols like RSS, RDF and atom allow syndication. As the popularity of these technologies increase by name of Web feed because of its high usability the RSS icon replaced by more user-friendly icons.