Art of Web 2.0 | Live Web

R.L.Narayanan

360 Degree Interactive

What is Web 2.0?

• Is it Ajax?
• Is it RSS?
• Is it Tagging ?
• Is it Ruby on Rails ?
• Is it Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ?
• Is it about Service Oriented Architecture( SOA) ?
• Is it about Mashups ?
• Is it about social networking ?

It's not all. It's all. It's not all. It's all.

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is

• Network as platform, spanning all connected devices;
• Delivering software as a continually-updated service;
• Consuming and remixing data from multiple sources;
• Architecture of participation;
• Deliver rich user experiences

Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Definition

Key features of Web 2.0 / Live Web

Key features of Web 2.0 / Live Web

• Web as a Platform
• Harnessing Collective Intelligence
• Data Inside. Applications Outside.
• Everyone is a "hacker"
• Data DJ-ing - remixes, mashups, multiple platforms
• Blessed with Beta
• Rich User Interfaces

Key features of Web 2.0 / Live Web

Web as a Platform & Harnessing Collective Intelligence

• Wikipedia - World's largest repository of
  human knowledge with 2 Million articles
  • Better relevance than Brittanica Online
• Technorati - 33.5M sites and 2.2B links
  • Better than Google Search
• Harnessing Collective Intelligence of the people
• Builds on "Architecture of participation"
• Evolving continuously

Key features of Web 2.0 / Live Web

Data Inside. Data DJ-ing is in.

• Data is distributable, configurable, hackable
• Data sharing harness collective intelligence &
  build better folksonomies [ex. Tagging ]
• DJ your data - mashup, remix, mixify the data
• Data comes front. Container comes next.
• Source Forge runs 100,000 projects with 1Million users
• Del.icio.us delivers better search capabilities
  with human tagging

Key features of Web 2.0 / Live Web

Software releases are dead. Life is BETA

• Software releases are dead.
  Continuous development are in.
• Versions are out. Builds are in
• Build early. Build often. Build continuously.
• Evolve everyday. every minute.

Key features of Web 2.0 / Live Web

Rich User Interfaces. Lightweight Prog. models

• Rich user interfaces.
• Instant, user driven UIs
• Simpler, powerful Human Computer Interactions
• Anytime, anywhere access

Key features of Web 2.0 / Live Web

Rich User Interfaces. Lightweight Prog. models

Key features of Web 2.0 / Live Web

Rich User Interfaces. Lightweight Prog. models

Building a Web 2.0 Application

• Use Open source software, languages & server
• Communicate, Code, Store
• Harness the power of connected web
• User is First. Data is Floatable
• Integrate with IMs,Bookmarks,APIs