Unleashing Web 2. 0 : From Concepts to Creativity

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Pub. Date: 2007-07-23
Publisher(s): Elsevier Science
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Summary

The emergence of Web 2.0 is provoking challenging questions for developers: What products and services can our company provide to customers and employees using Rich Internet Applications, mash-ups, Web feeds or Ajax? Which business models are appropriate and how do we implement them? What are best practices and how do we apply them? If you need answers to these and related questions, you need this booka comprehensive and reliable resource that guides you into the emerging and unstructured landscape that is Web 2.0. * Presents a complete view of Web 2.0 including services and technologies * Discusses potential new products and services and the technology and programming ability needed to realize them * Offers how to basics presenting development frameworks and best practices * Compares and contrasts Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web Gottfried Vossen is a professor of Information Systems and Computer Science at the University of Muenster in Germany. He is the European Editor-in-Chief of Elseviers Information SystemsAn International Journal. Stephan Hagemann is a PhD. Student in Gottfrieds research group focused on Web technologies. * Presents a complete view of Web 2.0 including services and technologies * Discusses potential new products and services and the technology and programming ability needed to realize them * Offers how to basics presenting development frameworks and best practices * Compares and contrasts Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web

Author Biography

Gottfried Vossen is a professor of Information Systems and Computer Science at the University of Muenster in Germany

Table of Contents

Prefacep. xi
A Brief History of the Webp. 1
A new breed of applications: the rise of the Webp. 2
The arrival of the browserp. 2
The flattening of the worldp. 7
From linking to searchingp. 10
Commercialization of the Webp. 22
Peer-to-peer networks and free file sharingp. 34
Technological developments in a nutshellp. 38
IP networkingp. 40
HTML and XMLp. 42
Web services and RSSp. 46
User participation and contribution: socialization of the Webp. 49
Blogs and wikisp. 49
Social networksp. 58
Merging the streams: the arrival of "Web 2.0"p. 64
A Review of the Technological Streamp. 69
Developments in Web technologyp. 69
HTMLp. 71
XMLp. 76
CSSp. 80
Scripting technologiesp. 87
Web applications of XMLp. 102
Web servicesp. 102
Web feed formatsp. 115
P2Pp. 124
P2P file-sharing networksp. 124
Other P2P applicationsp. 128
Summaryp. 132
Enabling Techniques and Technologiesp. 135
Rich Internet Applicationsp. 136
Sample RIAs: e-mail applicationsp. 137
XMLHttpRequest, the link needed for Ajaxp. 146
More RIAs: Office and map applicationsp. 155
APIs, WPCs, and their mash-upsp. 161
The situation in Web 1.0p. 162
Content syndication with Web feedsp. 167
Mash-ups based on WPCsp. 172
Taggingp. 183
Flickr and taggingp. 185
Social bookmarkingp. 195
Folksonomiesp. 201
Summaryp. 203
Sample Frameworks for Web Application Developmentp. 205
Development methodologiesp. 206
Client-side Ajax frameworksp. 211
Kabuki Ajax toolkitp. 212
Development of a Zimlet using AjaxTKp. 216
Server-side frameworksp. 222
Ruby on Railsp. 222
Creating a Web application with Railsp. 224
Frameworks for other RIA technologiesp. 232
RIA development with OpenLaszlop. 232
Flash versus Ajaxp. 236
Summaryp. 238
Impacts of the Next Generation of the Webp. 241
Business models for Internet and Webp. 242
Commission-based brokerage and merchantsp. 243
Advertisingp. 245
Information intermediariesp. 248
The community and the subscription modelsp. 249
Summaryp. 250
Data ownershipp. 251
Software as a Service (SaaS)p. 254
A look back: the ASP modelp. 256
The provider-oriented viewp. 257
The consumer-oriented view and service customizationp. 263
Socialization and cocreation of contentp. 266
Social searchp. 266
Social aspects of softwarep. 271
Impacts of online social networksp. 273
User-generated content in advertisingp. 275
Second Lifep. 276
Summaryp. 279
The Semantic Web and Web 2.0p. 281
Basicsp. 283
Search revisitedp. 283
Data and information integrationp. 287
The Semantic Web ideap. 289
The structure of the Semantic Webp. 292
Languages of the Semantic Webp. 295
The Resource Description Framework (RDF)p. 295
RDF Schema (RDFS)p. 298
Web Ontology Language (OWL)p. 303
Ontologiesp. 308
Introductionp. 309
Design of an ontologyp. 310
OntoMedia: an ontology-based personal entertainment systemp. 320
From tagging to ontologies and backp. 323
Micro-formatsp. 325
Collaborative tagging and folksonomiesp. 328
Summaryp. 334
Referencesp. 337
Indexp. 345
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