Web 2.0 an Introduction

Tue, Jan 1, 2008, by Gijo George

Web Talk

Web 2.0 is now gaining more popularity among web development community. Web 2.0 makes the user experience with any web page richer and faster.

Many think web 2.0 as a new standard or protocol, which is yet to come. But the reality is Web 2.0 is the implementation of latest technologies to evolve highly user-friendly web applications. Using advanced rich Internet applications or RIA such as Ajax, Adobe Flex etc., users can feel a new level of Internet experience. Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Ajax technology combines the power of JavaScript and XML to produce highly user friendly web pages.

A user who uses a web page developed using these technologies is able to complete a specific task with less time than using a web application developed using traditional technologies and avoids frequent calls to server. The turn around time is usually less for applications developed using web 2.0 concept. This is because almost everything is done on the client side only. This means that users don’t have to wait for the response from server side on every action completed resulting in saving lot of time.

Many companies and banking corporations around the world are embracing these new technologies to provide a highly satisfied user experience. Online banking applications, e-commerce sites developed using these technologies can provide users a highly rich and faster service. Unlike conventional Internet applications the sites developed using web 2.0 concepts doesn’t refreshes the whole page while you make updates. A web page developed using these Rich Internet Applications make the web page to act more like a Desktop application and allows users to interact more with the application.

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  1. James Says:

    As a SEO & SEM marketing consultant, the changes from how we do business online, seems to be going past Web 2.0.. Maybe we are already in Web 3.0 yet the world doesn’t realize it. Web 2.0 would have been Windows XP :) Web 3.0 will be Windows Linux…

    An article written on “What Is Web 2.0?” says:

    Quote: Although the changes are un-deniably visible, most believe we as humans are actually changing and adapting to the internet, rather than the internet adapting to human beings.

    This seems to me, Web 3.0 has already begun!

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