Features of Web 2.0 Development

Web 2.0 has taken the web world with storm. Web 2.0 facilitates participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. The term "Web 2.0" was coined in January 1999 by Darcy DiNucci, a consultant on electronic information design. It has lead to new innovations in interactions on the net. Web 2.0 includes social networking Sites, Blogs, Wikis, Video sharing sites, Hosted services and many other Web applications. It has made the web a very interactive medium. Web 2.0 contains many applications for storage, creation, and dissemination of information which were not present before its arrival. It has the combined capabilities of client- and server-side software or technology, content syndication and the use of network protocols. It has changed the trend of passive website, which allowed user access to only the content displayed on the website. In short, information sharing has taken a huge leap with Web 2.0. The web browser technologies used to browse a Web 2.0 application are developed using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax), Adobe Flash, and JavaScript/Ajax frameworks such as Yahoo! UI Library and Dojo Toolkit etc. Ajax programming uses JavaScript to upload and download new data from the web server without refreshing the entire web page.

Some Of The Features Of Web 2.0 Include:

• Searching functionality : By simply typing a keyword, the user can have access to any information.
• Extensions : This software has enabled the web to serve as an application platform as well as a storehouse of documents.
• Linkage to another world : Through the endless applications of Web 2.0, you can connect to a person sitting in the other corner of the world. It gives shape to a meaningful communication through the web.
• Authoring the Website content : Web 2.0 also enables you to author the web content by creating or updating contents on a website. Moreover, anybody can become an author through blogs.
• Tagging the Content : Using this feature, you need not depend on the pre-made categories and can simply ease the searching by adding one-word description.

Thus, Web 2.0 has revolutionized the World Wide Web by making communication easier, smarter and simpler in many ways. But this is just the beginning as the coming years will see more developments in this direction that will change the face of Internet.