Web 2.0 Sites

Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and its hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web.

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Web 2.0 standards are being accepted across the globe to facilitate creativity, information sharing, collaboration among web users in the World Wide Web technology and web design. Web 2.0 has lead to the concept of new generation for web oriented communities like social-networking sites, Wikis, Blogs, and folksonomies.

Due to increasing technology evolution, Web 2.0 infrastructure includes server – software, content – syndication, messaging – protocols, standard – oriented browsers with plug-ins and extension , various client – applications. Semaphore – Software has adopted Web 2.0 standards for development of website and web application based on Microsoft’s .NET, J2EE, LAMP and Rich Internet Applications like AJAX, Adobe Flash, Flex, Java and Silverlight.