Web 2.0 without programming
This new business space is based on new technologies, CMS, HTML 5, as well as social effects resulting from the emergence of networks and public access to all these services, which in turn creates the Internet universe.
The modern Internet is described in the Web 2.0 article in the title, which covers all technical improvements and their applications on modern websites, offering services, responsiveness and comfort of using office software.
The network is becoming a new center of activity, there is a modern economic space and new services: advertising for everyone with Adsense, and other Google services, such as Analytics for webmasters, Earth for geography, Youtube for video, Skype for phone. Other players like eBay are making bidding available to everyone, all within new technological frameworks with email and messaging, discussion forums, a world where everyone becomes a journalist, a writer, a chronicler with a blog...
A site that offers virtual existence is a good example of an application that uses all the resources of Web 2.0. Companies like Reuters are opening agencies in this virtual world, which is an original means of promotion.
After the Ajax article, a new approach for web applications, Ajax became the basis of the modern site. The JavaScript language and the XMLHttpRequest object for interacting with the server turn HTML pages into online applications. Ajax allows you to make reactive sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for videos.
Another important and new method is the autonomous use of a web application that allows them to be used with or without the Internet, made universal by HTML 5.
The emergence of CMS, or content managers, and especially specialized versions: blogs, digg likes, catalogs, wikis, etc., such types of sites have become easy to implement, since only installing software is enough to use them. Programming is not required; template files must be modified to create a personalized GUI.
Blog
An online journal based on a content manager and hosted on a personal or community site. Tickets are dated and placed on the same page, the last entries hunting for the oldest.
Nothing to program, software to install, if you decide to have clean hosting, if not in blog spaces like Wordpress or Blogspot, you can open your blog in a few minutes and start talking about your life...
The manager or blog space allows you to search, group by archive category, add comments to visitors, trackbacks and blogrolls, and create RSS feeds to advertise your posts.
Digg-like
Under the hint of the Digg website, which popularized the concept. This is a news site that allows visitors, by clicking on the image, to vote for the news and thus bring it or save it on the first page. In practice, it is the news that already receives clicks in one, and the webmaster adds them to one!
Since the release of Pligg software, which allows you to create your own digg like, he appears every day, often devoting it to a specific topic: videos, recipes, jokes, scripts, etc.
Wiki
This is the easiest way to work together. Site visitors are given the right to edit, which allows them to develop it due to the minimum contribution of thousands of visitors. Any webmaster can add wikis to their site, thanks to a specialized library (usually in PHP) and a database.
There is also a choice between a public space, Wikia or everyone can create their own wiki, and their own hosting through a specialized content manager. The giant wiki based on the content manager Mediawiki, the most famous of the wiki frameworks, is highly contested on discussion forums.
Mascap
Since there are places on blogs and wikis, there are places for masks, the main ones are in the trial version. For example, Google Mashup. Mashup (mashed potatoes in French) is a hybrid web application for accessing various services from one page. This is not a simple cluster of gadgets: services can be combined to create something new .
For example, you can create your own mashup by combining these services offered on the Web:
- On the one hand, Google Maps, which provides a detailed map of the city.
- on the other hand, real estate services that allow you to access the list of available residential buildings.
The combination of both allows you to physically see housing for rent or sale, on the map.
It also works for restaurants, shops, any trade or even a tourist destination.
Social network
Other innovators suggested creating sites where you can predict and communicate with other users, depending on geographical proximity or proximity: Facebook, MySpace.
You can also share your favorites and use a list compiled by others, with always lists of friends between accounts, on Delicious and Stumbleupon.
There is open-source social networking software, enough to build a new Facebook building a giant hardware and software infrastructure. For example, Elgg on the social network that Drupal on the portal site.
Services
The network has long been a source of information, as well as a source of services. Google Maps displays accurate maps of the world and is augmented by Earth to view the world in 3D. Microsoft offers Virtual Earth.
These sites are used on desktop or mobile devices and replace printed maps. Many other services tend to make life easier, especially when they are available on mobile.
The open source version is OpenStreetMap, a free tool for webmasters who, with a little imagination and mashup, will know how to extract an unreleased and useful service for Internet users from it and build their success on it, as countless startups do. With the hope that one day it will be bought by Google, Apple, Yahoo! and make a fortune...
At least the user, at best the director, we entered the era of Web 2.0, and then 3.0, 4.0. This is a lot of technology and a bunch of new applications that appear every day. And this is the emergence of a new world, a new economic space, possibly a virtual world.