Web2Pedia – The Web 2.0 WWW Encyclopedia

I have started compiling this rather ambitious Web 2.0 encyclopedia by aggregating content and links from around the web on this topic. Will organize everything soon, until then, these are in bits and pieces but still should (hopefully) make sense.

Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html

Words & Terms Associated with Web 2.0

Web as platform

community

ASP

Wiki

Weblog

MCF

RSS

XML

Long Tail

Mash-up

SaaS

Web Service

Social Software

Podcast

Folksonomy

AJAX

SOAP

Social Bookmarking

Blogs

Social networking

Semantic web

Crowdsourcing

Enterprise 2.0

Learning 2.0

Library 2.0

Microblogging

Office 2.0

Photo-sharing

Social computing

Travel 2.0

Web operating system

Web 3.0

Open source search engine

Blogroll

Chicklet

Embed

Folksonomy

Groups

Hacks

Image Attributes

JavScript

Flock

LinkBait

MoBlogging

Newsreader

Open Source

RSS

Sock Puppet Spam

User Generated Content

Vlogging (Video blogging)

Wiki

XML

YouTube

Zoom Info

Some Web 2.0 Companies

Bloglines

del.icio.us

Flickr

MySpace

Technorati

YouTube

Wikipedia

Technology

Web 2.0 is not just ajax. Ajax is one of the technologies that spearheaded web 2.0 adoption - just like Ruby on Rails.

Web 2.0 is not about “mashing”. In the description above, the sentence “Learn about the opportunities for mashing commercial, lifestyle and government services together to deliver a seamless experience that constantly engages the customer” frankly makes no sense. As far as I know, Singapore government offers no XML feeds (except perhaps the Health Promotion Board? let alone APIs). So, the concept of “mashing” doesnt even exist. Web 2.0 is about providing services that enable people to come up with new ones. For e.g. Basecamp, Flickr, del.icio.us, twitter, etc offer APIs which result in pretty creative services like: FlickrFS, twittervision etc. These create the “buzz” around the web 2.0 technology while simultaneously creating a community for adoption.

Ajax is not just javascript. I see a lot of websites that scream “web 2.0” with just some fancy javascript effects. Ajax has always had XMLHttpRequest component that has been fundamental to the power of Ajax. Without that, there is technically, no Ajax.

Web 2.0 is not flash. But web 2.0 is definitely not about using flash to dish up the portal/apps. It has been done before, and they never picked up steam. Portal City, at least its “under construction” page, seems to be using flash with some links to government sites. First, they are not accessible, second, they are definitely not web 2.0.

Design

Web 2.0 is also about web standards. Web 2.0 portals should adopt web standards, accessibility, and usability techniques that work - including design of their portals. Complying with web standards is one of them. In the case of the Portal City, it is obvious that none of these apply.

Web 2.0 is about designs that speak of innovation. Now, there is nothing wrong with the NCS portal city page except it doesn’t speak anywhere of something new and progressive. It doesn’t have a vibrant, innovative feel and looks like any 90s site (except with a trendier flash presentation). For e.g. IBM is a portal that doesnt say it is “Web 2.0” - even though they do incorporate web 2.0 technology - neither does it want to be. But for any site that does want to be known as “web 2.0” - then it is time to freshen up the designs.

For Singapore examples of Web 2.0 portals we needn’t look any further than bookjetty or Shared Copy. Perhaps Herry is the best person to talk about developing a massive portal that uses web 2.0 constructively.

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0

DoubleClick AdSense

Ofoto Flickr

Akamai BitTorrent

MP3.com Napster

Britannica Online Wikipedia

Personal Websites Blogging

Evite.com Upcoming.org & EVDB

Domain name speculation Search engine optimisation

Page views Cost per click

Screen scraping Web services

Publishing Participation

Content management systems Wikis

Directories Tagging

Stickiness Syndication

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3552

Social Bookmarking Sites

http://del.icio.us.com

http://digg.com

http://furl.net

http://blinklist.com

http://reddit.com

http://feedmelinks.com

http://www.technorati.com

Yahoo Bookmarks

http://www.newsvine.com

http://ekstreme.com Socializer

http://ma.gnolia.com

http://www.stumbleupon.com

Google Bookmarks

http://www.rawsugar.com

http://www.squidoo.com

http://www.spurl.net

http://blinkbits.com

http://netvouz.com

http://blogmarks.net

http://www.shadows.com

http://www.simpy.com

http://co.mments.com/

http://www.scuttle.org

http://www.bloglines.com

http://tailrank.com

A-Z Guide to Web 2.0 Jargon

See a good list of jargon & their explanations from here - http://smogger.wordpress.com/2006/12/30/social-media-literacy-an-a-z-guide-to-web20-jargon/

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