Friday, March 7, 2008

Technology Overview of Report My Signal Blog

The sometimes complex and continually evolving technology infrastructure of Web 2.0 includes server software, content syndication, messaging protocols, standards oriented browsers with plugins and extensions, and various client applications. The differing, yet complementary approaches of such elements provide Web 2.0 sites with information storage, creation, and dissemination challenges and capabilities that go beyond what the public formerly expected in the environment of the so-called Web 1.0.
Web 2.0 websites/ blogs typically include some of the following features/ techniques:

1. Rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax-based. Mimic PC applications like slide show presentations and video. Bulletin Board has pointers to slide shows to improve user experience.

2. Semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup. The marquee Bulletin Board has HTML markup with other sites, source tracking and links.

3. Folksonomies (in the form of tags or tagclouds, for example). Each post has a labels with tags to describe organic content as bookmarks for search engines.

4. Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content. The blog has widgets and page elements which can be moved around and placed to improve presentation.

5. REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs. Provides improved response times and server loading characteristics due to support for caching. Improves server scalability by reducing the need to maintain communication state. This means that different servers can be used to handle initial and subsequent requests. These are inbuilt characteristics of blogspot of google. (Representational State Transfer= REST)

6. Syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom feeds. We have 4 exterior RSS feeds and pointer to our own RSS feed.

7. Mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and server-side. We have mashup of Google Earth and Weather to give temperature of any city in the world. The unique and hit counter with clock at the bottom is linked with other servers to give latest information.

8. Wiki or forum software, to support user generated content. Wikimapia.org (Mhow as example), one can mark locations on the map. Feedjit one can locate the visitor's server.

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