Web 2.0 mai 9, 2006
Posted by Postmaster in Collaborative Web, Office of the Future.trackback
In his article where he defines the concept of Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly proposes to transform the Internet into an exchange platform for users, notably thank to online services or applications.
Although some say Web 2.0 is a marketing concept or hype, there is a general consensus that Web 2.0 should enable people to share, collaborate and interact. The main ideas behind Web 2.0 are collaboration, participation, rich user experience, trust, and mashup (combined content from more than one source/service). There are many emerging collaborative online (or Web 2.0) applications:
- Word processing: Writely (recently bought by Google), Rallypoint, JotSpot Live, Zoho Writer
- Spreadsheet: NumSum, iRows
- Calendar:30 Boxes, CalendarHub
- Projet management: Basecamp
- Presentation: Thumbstacks
- Drawing: Gliffy
- Office Suite: gOffice
- Group note-taking: Jotspot Live
- Social bookmarking: BlinkList, BlogMarks, del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Ma.gnolia, Simpy, Technorati
Most of these applications rely on Ajax programming (a combination of XML and Javascript), RSS (web feed formats in XML, used for Web syndication) and REST (web-based pogramming interfaces that use XML and HTTP).
Microsoft follows the trend and offers shared online functionalities with Office Live: e-mail, calendar, document management, online business application (employee/customer/project management), etc.
We should add here example of social bookmarking. JM