Web 2.0 Technologies

What are Web 2.0 technologies?

Web 2.0 is a category of new Internet Tools and Technologies created around the idea that the people who access the Internet. They are not looking for just what are available rather, they should be active contributors, and helping technology for their own purposes.

Web 2.0 has technologies such as Blogs, Social Bookmarking, Wikis, Podcasts, RSS Feeds to enhance existing sites.

Blogs
What is Blog?. Blog means read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal. There are many FREE Blogs websites are available to create a blog.

Top Blog websites are:
Blogger
MyBlogLog
Mynewblog
Bigadda
SocialGo
Free Travel Blog
eBlogus


Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a kind of method for Web users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

Top Bookmarking websites are:
Digg
StumbleUpon
Reddit.com
Del.icio.us
Technorati
Yahoo Buzz
Newsvine
Blinklist
Propeller
Clipmarks


Wikis
What is Wikis?. Wiki is a part of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.

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Web 2.0: Hot Technology for 2009
The Web 2.0 phenomenon is unstoppable. Employees are turning in droves to blogs, wikis, mash-ups, social networking, crowdsourcing and other variations on the Web 2.0 theme. A recent Yankee Group survey found that 86% of non-IT workers are using at least one consumer Web 2.0 tool at work. Read more...


Web 2.0 Latest News
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