Break Through Your Four Walls
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Web 2.0 - Software on the Web
- Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
- Allows web apps to feel like desktop apps
- Web Services
- Share information between online apps
- Uses XML (not MARC / Z39.50 / SIP)
- Examples
- Google Maps, Amazon, Writely, YouOS
- Microsoft Windows Live, Office Live
- Open source trends
- Most web 2.0 related software is free
- Most of what libraries provide is free
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