Unleashing Web 2.0: From Concepts to Creativity (Paperback)

Description

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 book—a 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 Elsevier’s Information Systems—An International Journal. Stephan Hagemann is a PhD. Student in Gottfried’s research group focused on Web technologies.

     

 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Web
1.1 A New Breed of Applications: The Rise of the Web
1.2 Technological Developments in a Nutshell
1.3 User Participation and Contribution: Socialization of the Web
1.4 Merging the Streams: The Arrival of “Web 2.0”

Chapter 2: A Review of the Technological Stream
2.1 Developments in Web Technology
2.2 Web Applications of XML
2.3 P2P
2.4 Summary

Chapter 3: Enabling Techniques and Technologies
3.1 Rich Internet Applications
3.2 APIs, WPCs, and their Mash-Ups
3.3 Tagging
3.4 Summary

Chapter 4: Sample Frameworks for Web Application Development
4.1 Development Methodologies
4.2 Client-Side Ajax Frameworks
4.3 Server-Side Frameworks
4.4 Frameworks for Other RIA Technologies
4.5 Summary

Chapter 5: Impacts of the Next Generation of the Web
5.1 Business Models for Internet and Web
5.2 Data Ownership
5.3 Software as a Service (SaaS)
5.4 Socialization and Co-Creation of Content
5.5 Summary

Chapter 6: The Semantic Web and Web 2.0
6.1 Basics
6.2 Languages of the Semantic Web
6.3 Ontologies
6.4 From Tagging to Ontologies and Back
6.5 Summary

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