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What Is Web 2.0?

 

Web 2.0 is a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004, refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O'Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted .

Flock n Roll 

Internet users spend a lot of time going from one site to the next, keeping up with a variety of friends and interests. Flock pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what's important to them.

Flock delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are in control and more connected to what's important to them. By automatically managing updates and media from popular social services such as Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, YouTube, and Twitter, Flock makes sharing with friends and services drag-and-drop easy.

Social Marker 

Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That's where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website.

Crazy Egg 

Crazy Egg enables you to visualise your site activity via their innovative toolset. They offer a fourway overlay for your page which shows visitor activity.

The overlay tool enables you to learn more about the clicks on each element of your page. The overlay visualization helps you drill down to each element of your page.

The list view provides a detailed summary of your click data in a single view. The list view allows you to drill down to the statistics for each element on your web page. You can also export the information into CSV format.

The heatmap is a simple way to view your results and see what happened. Heatmaps are easy to understand and will provide you with instant actionable information.

Confetti, which is Crazy Egg's newest innovation lets you interact with a rich flash visualization of all of your clicks. Color and filter clicks based on Top 15 Referrers, Search Terms, Operating System, Browser, etc...

Isolate the data you want to compare and hide the rest. All without having to reload anything.

Track,evaluate and improve your site with Crazy Egg.

Their FREE plan allows you to track up to 5,000 visits per month across 4 pages. Sign Up Today!

Social Poster 

Social Poster is a free all in one Web 2.0 submitter. Submit your articles to digg,magnolia, delicious, facebook, squidoo and more!

Web 2.0 on Amazon 

Unleashing Web 2.0: From Concepts to Creativity

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Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals

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Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0

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Weaving Web 2.0 Tools into the Classroom

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Professional Web 2.0 Programming (Wrox Professional Guides)

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The Web Developer's Handbook 

The Ultimate CSS Resource

The Web Developer's Handbook contains everything you need for developing websites and blogs with CSS. Owned by Vitaly Friedman who is a freelancing web designer from Saarbruecken, Germany, who creates simple, accessible and user-friendly web design.

Don't be put off by the huge list of links, work through them to find some of the best tools, tutorials, generators, widgets and layouts available.

Ajax Load 

Ajax Loading GIF Generator

Create your own Ajax loading .gif's

Ajax Load itself it an AJAX based site with a simple interface that consists of a dropdown box with a good sized list of animated indicators. There are also colour palette selection boxes through which you can specify the background & foreground colours of the indicator plus a transparent option. Once you're done with configuring, just hit Generate and your customised indicator appears in the Preview window, ready for download.

The Ajax Load service is totally FREE.

Web 2.0 on eBay 

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Project Playlist 

The Social Music Experiment

Project Playlist is an information location tool similar to Google and Yahoo! but devoted entirely to the world of music. Their purpose is to help you find and enjoy music legally throughout the web in the same way that other search engines help you find webpages, images, and other media, but they have also add a social /community twist. They make it easy for you to create playlists, share your playlists with friends, and browse playlists of others. Connecting you with the coolest music on the web, and connecting people who are passionate about music.

Project Playlist works with blogs and MySpace

The Machine is Us/ing Us - Web 2.0 Walkthrough 

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Movers 2.0 and esnips 

Follow The Web 2.0 Traffic Trends

View the Web 2.0 movers and shakers with Movers 2.0 Features include - Top Sites, monthly, weekly and daily Movers. Movers 2.0 also has a great widget for your site.

Movers uses the Alexa api and is the brainchild of esnips

eSnips is a social content-sharing site, where you can publish and share any media type. You have practically unlimited flexibility in choosing what you want to share, and with whom, in 5GB of free space.

eSnips is the one place where you can share anything you want, about any topic: your thoughts, your photos, your music, your videos, your flash files, stuff you find on the web, and many other media types. Once you create different folders for each of your passions and interests, you decide what files to put in each folder, and you control who is allowed to view each folder - just you, a select group, or the world.

eSnips is for anyone who has anything they want to share with others - like home movies they want to share with family members or a hobby they want to share with others with the same interests. eSnips creates a community around your passions by making it easy to find others and for others to find you.

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