About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Semantic Web, Memetics, Middleware, Synergy, Turnkey, Empowerment, Buzzword, Paradigm, Web 2.0, Carbon footprint, List of buzzwords, Comet, Unified communications, Enterprise social software, Linked Data, Library 2.0, Enterprise social networking, Machine-to-Machine, New rave, Travel 2.0, Semantic desktop, Appreciative inquiry, Software metric, Bad apples excuse, Geoweb, Vendor Relationship Management, Knowledge process outsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, Coopetition, Amateur professionalism, Browserless Web, Buzzword bingo, Unconference, Smart client, Best practice, Operational excellence, Globalism, Buzzword compliant, Execution-style murder, Marketroid, Electronic office, WorkVitamins, Career ladder, Integrated product team, Inbox 2.0, Produsage, Lightnet, Return to Operation. Excerpt: The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators (prosumers) of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where users (consumers) are limited to the passive viewing of content that was created for them. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies. The term is closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in late 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web. Whether Web 2.0 is qualitatively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by W...
