For some indication of how intense the explosion of web based services and applications is, check out these pages:
- Del.icio.us/tag/web2.0
- Del.icio.us/tag/web2.0+apps
- Emily Chang’s fantastic site eHub
What do the things highlighted on these pages have in common?
- They reley on serious bandwidth
- cheap data storage
- storage done on the network and not on your computer
- user supplied data and network effects( Amazon.com’s users’ book reviews, Craig’s List classified ads, and items tagged in social bookmarking services are some traditional examples)
- AJAX (asynchronous javascript and XML) a programming method that loads more into your browser than is shown at any one time, so your clicks can be responded to immediately without sending a signal back to the host server. Slick.
Those are some of the key components of Web2.0 and the number of new tools being created, mixed, mashed-up etc. can be overwhelming. I’m here to help you figure out ones work best together in the service of your non-technological interests.
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