The technical component of Web 2.0 includes XML, Ajax, APP, various programming languages, plug-ins and widgets, and the REST architecture. All of these have a role to play in supporting the web sites that incorporate Web 2.0 features, while many predate the Web 2.0 phenomenon. There are far too many interesting technical features for me [...]
The social and collaboration part of Web 2.0 mostly revolves around the concepts of social networking, user-generated content, and the long tail.
Social Cloud
Social networking is the idea that people can meet and talk and organise their social lives using the Web instead of, or in addition to, more traditional methods such as talking face to [...]
Like any hyped technology, Web 2.0 has a lot of buzzwords. They include the tag (as in tag cloud), the folksonomy, the long tail (more about that in a later post), and social software.
Social software is there to support networking and social activities via the internet. Lots of people spend lots of time interacting with [...]
At the CSW XML Summer School this year I gave a talk on Web 2.0, in the Trends and Transients track. I’ve been pondering whether to write it up as a series of postings or not; there’s so much hype and information around Web 2.0 that many people are bored silly with it now. I [...]
The XML 2007 talk submission deadline is looming; there’s only one this year (and it’s this Friday, August 31st!), so if you miss it, you miss out. I’m one of the reviewers. If you want a high grade if I’m assigned your paper to review, read these hints on writing good abstracts first.
Since the [...]
As usual, the trip to the XML Summer School in Oxford was excellent. I learned a lot and met some interesting people and had fun too, even though I’ve decided that two trips to Europe, with a one-year-old, in 26 days, is a little too much travel in a short period of time. The XML [...]
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