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.com Live: Web Site Design
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03/17/2006, By tmcnet.com
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Web 2.0 is certainly the trend that everyone is talking about. But it seems to mean different things to different people.
Sites like flickr and del.icio.us fit in because they are leading the way in opening the web to new ways of managing web content. The tagging features of both services--dubbed "folksonomy" for their grass-roots inversion of traditional top-down categorization, or "taxonomy," of online resources--enable novel and inspiring ways of communal publishing and sharing with the web.
Web 2.0 also includes sites that use new technology to build true web-based applications--such as Writely's web-based word processor or Basecamp's online project management software. They do it with a coding technique dubbed AJAX, which basically allows webpages to be updated dynamically, instead of in the slower page request and response model that has defined the web for the last 10 years.
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