Web 2.0 technologies for your business
Take advantage of open, flexible Web 2.0 technologies. The phrase Web 2.0 refers to a next generation of web-based applications and hosted services which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.
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What is Ruby on Rails?
The goal of Ruby on Rails is to make web development faster and simpler.
Rails is an alternative to building applications in J2EE, .NET, PHP, or any of the other web frameworks and languages.
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What is Web 2.0
The phrase Web 2.0 refers to a next generation of web-based applications and hosted services which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to Web technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the web as a platform.
Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform…
Tim O’Reilly
Here are some summarized principles of Web 2.0 applications:
- The web as a platform. Web-based applications and hosted services, not packaged software, provide cost-effective scalability
- Data as the driving force. Modern applications are increasingly data-driven.
- Network effects created by an architecture of participation
- Innovation in assembly of systems and sites composed by pulling together features from distributed, independent developers (a kind of “open source” development)
- Lightweight business models enabled by content and service syndication. Web 2.0 applications are built of a network of cooperating data services.
- Software above the level of a single device, leveraging the power of the “Long Tail”. The PC is no longer the only access device for internet applications, and applications that are limited to a single device are less valuable than those that are connected.
MC Consulting will help your business to utilize these principles and take advantage of the new technologies and business models.