Whats 2.0?

I had earlier written my understanding of what is web 2.0. Here is a professional write up about the same

Reproduced from the What is 2.0 by O"Reilly Media

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The Web As Platform
Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.

Figure 1 shows a "meme map" of Web 2.0 that was developed at a brainstorming session during FOO Camp, a conference at O'Reilly Media. It's very much a work in progress, but shows the many ideas that radiate out from the Web 2.0 core.

For example, at the first Web 2.0 conference, in October 2004, John Battelle and I listed a preliminary set of principles in our opening talk. The first of those principles was "The web as platform." Yet that was also a rallying cry of Web 1.0 darling Netscape, which went down in flames after a heated battle with Microsoft. What's more, two of our initial Web 1.0 exemplars, DoubleClick and Akamai, were both pioneers in treating the web as a platform. People don't often think of it as "web services", but in fact, ad serving was the first widely deployed web service, and the first widely deployed "mashup" (to use another term that has gained currency of late). Every banner ad is served as a seamless cooperation between two websites, delivering an integrated page to a reader on yet another computer. Akamai also treats the network as the platform, and at a deeper level of the stack, building a transparent caching and content delivery network that eases bandwidth congestion.

Nonetheless, these pioneers provided useful contrasts because later entrants have taken their solution to the same problem even further, understanding something deeper about the nature of the new platform. Both DoubleClick and Akamai were Web 2.0 pioneers, yet we can also see how it's possible to realize more of the possibilities by embracing additional web 2.0 design patterns.

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I encourage viewers to read this long article which in essence deals with the basic components of web 2.0

What is web 2.0

So what is web 2.0? Is this a new phenomenon.

Answer to the above question is No, this is not new phenomenon. It is the coinage of the terms which refers to collating all the earlier available technology and with which help, a website becomes interactive to all the users.

The major components that go to form a web 2.0 site is blogs, wikipedias, podcasts, RSS feeds, social software and API which provide enhancements over read-only websites. More than ever, instead of using Internet as a layer above the applications, the web 2.0 encourages the usage of the Internet as a platform which allows the different applications to be underlying this platform and provide the user a interactivity to use and he or she wishes to use or view it. For eg, AJAX enables the each user of the multiple user system to customize over the web the usage of the reports.

In simple terms it relates to a transition of the websites, from isolated & an information only sites, to interlinked computing platforms that function like locally-available software in the perception of the user. The inclusion of the social element where the users are encouraged and provided facilities to generate and distribute content, often with freedom to share and re-use creates the interactivity to all the stake holders of these websites.

The best examples of web 2.0 are ebay, flicker, itunes, etc.

My company

This blog is dedicated to what I do as a head of the Software company Computers International.

A brief about the company

What began as a Training Centre for aspiring software professionalS in 1996, turned to be a full time pure play Software Development company since 1998.

What do we do

We are a global product development services organization and a partner to established technology leaders, helping them bring software products to market in less time and at reduced costs. We partner with our clients to create dedicated delivery centers. By leveraging on our capabilities, it helps our clients to increases product quality while reducing the time to market and operating costs.

What are we good at

To form a core team around a product and continue to develop and maintain that product along with the client product team from one build to another, from one version to another, on a long term engagement model.

What are the current domains we work in

I can say that there are 3 circles of in our work space. while there is one outer circle, which forms the "Outsourced Product Development", the other two circles are independent circles within the outer circle. The first of these circle denotes our 1000s of man years of experience in "Accounting Products", the other circle denotes our experience and expertise in developing products in " Enterprise Mobile solutions space"

What is our Technical Expertise

All Microsoft Products, Windows ME, Windows CF, JAVA, J2EE, Oracle, IBM DB2, Websphere, Crystal Reports, BI, Automated Testing tools like Win runner, etc.

Our Bottom Line

Co Creating Value for our Clients