Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

and why you would love WordPress too
Google loves WordPress. I love Google and I love WordPress (it’s very search engine friendly). It makes Search Engine Optimization easy!
If you can operate Microsoft Word, you can probably use WordPress.
It lowers the bar for what it takes to maintain websites — Although WordPress is a blogging platform, it’s [...]

A Blog is a great way to market yourself, share your knowledge and put yourself out as an expert in your field.
Most bloggers gain their traffic from 3 sources, inbound links (other websites linking to yours), search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, etc.) and social media (Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Digg, etc.).
Take your content to where the [...]

The idea of Web 2.0 became notable after the first O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004.  During that conference O’Reilly Media brainstormed the concept of Web 2.0 and what it means, here is an example:

Web 1.0

Web 2.0

DoubleClick
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Google AdSense

Ofoto
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Flickr

Akamai
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BitTorrent

mp3.com
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Napster

Britannica Online
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Wikipedia

personal websites
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blogging

evite
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upcoming.org and EVDB

domain name speculation
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search engine optimization

page views
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cost per click

screen scraping
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web services

publishing
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participation

content management systems
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wikis

directories (taxonomy)
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tagging [...]