About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: Web 2.0, OnLive, MobileMe, Software as a service, Dropbox, Salesforce.com, Google Apps, Google Docs, Clam AntiVirus, Zoho Office Suite, Business Intelligence 2.0, Acrobat.com, Yudu Media, QuickSchools.com, Nivio, Online office suite, Animoto, Pdfvue, Office Web Apps, My Phone, Intacct, Freightgate, Vindicia, 24SevenOffice, Nsite Software, Smartsheet, Really Simple Systems, LotusLive, Feng Office Community Edition, Spigit, Gaikai, IKnowWare, GetApp.com, RightNow Technologies, OTOY, Windows Phone Live, Postini, MVaaS, KnowledgeTree, Fedena, Gigya, Foundation network, Net-results, LiveProcess, SlideRocket, TOA Technologies, LucidChart, BlackSpider Technologies Limited, BigMachines, ShowDocument, Imaginatik, Icloud, Brightidea, IWork.com, FonGenie, Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange, Software plus services, While You Were Out, ASUS WebStorage, Google Fusion Tables, Office123, Cacoo, MashApps, Social BI. 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 wa...
