Are You 2.0+ Compliant?

My Top 3

The definition and meaning of Web 2.0+ is continually evolving; some are now calling it Web 2.1?

Web 2.0 Validator (to see if your Blog/Web Page is 2.0 compliant - Caution, there are some biases here)

Generally, as at 19 May, 2008, following is a list of items that might tend to point to being Web 2.0+ compliant (as opposed to Web 1.0+?): We can think of many more items that can, and will be added as time allows.

• AdSense, from Google: Earn money from relevant ads on your websiteGoogle AdSense matches ads to your site’s content, and you earn money whenever your visitors click on them. (Wiki)

• Ajax (programming) (Wiki)

• Appears to over-punctuate refers to excess coding (reference - Wiki: Operating system)

• Architecture of Participation, The: article from O’Reilly (Wiki: Technical Architecture) Wiki: see also eParticipation

• Blink Tag, in Web 2.1 Technology Demonstrator, from cheese.blartwendo.com/? (Wiki: Blink Tag (Element)

• BlipTV Wikipedia (Wiki)

• Blog: Wiki definition See also, Wiki List of blogging terms for definition of “BlogRoll” YouTube Video: Blogs in Plain English YouTube Video: How We Do It: Manage a Travel Blog blogtoplist.com - a tracking/voting site

• Bloglines (RSS) news aggregator (Wiki)

• BlogTalkRadio is the social radio network (Wiki)

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents. (Wiki) (another Tutorial)

• Catalyst Web Framework: This gives us robustness and scalability - your Catalyst-based app also inherits those. No complicated object hierarchies - Keep It Simple, Stupid. (Wiki)

• Cease and Desist (Wiki: Definition) CMP Media, Division of United Business Media; pulishers of TechWeb O’Reilly Media (Tim) (Wiki)

• Cool Words - a list provided by altmanphoto.com Cool Websites and Tools (edition #142) from makeusof.com

• Creative Commons Licence (Wiki)

• Denies the existence of Rocky V - refers to the soundtrack of the movie - available from Amazon.com. Rocky V Movie Trailer (requires Windows Media Player 10+ - 300k MWA)

• Del.icio.us (pronounced “delicious”) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. (Wiki)

• Digg is a website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories, in a social and democratic spirit. (Wiki)

• Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. (Wiki)

• DWR - Direct Web Remoting: allows Javascript in a browser to interact with Java on a server and helps you manipulate web pages with the results. (Wiki)

• Favicon Favicon: short for ‘favorites icon’ (Wiki)

• Faviconized - from favicon.cc, for animated favicons

• Firefox (Wiki)

• Flickr: an online photo sharing site; requires a Yahoo! Sign-up Flickr Example - North American Birds Pooled Slide Show (Wiki)

• Google Sitemap (in Webmaster Tools) (Wiki: Sitemaps)

• Google Maps API definition (from Wiki) (Wiki)

  Isometric: Explosive Six-Sided Ninja Action Weekly

• JavaScript by Dreamweaver (Wiki) JavaScript from Mozilla.org; called Rhino, it is an open-source implementation of JavaScript written entirely in Java. It is typically embedded into Java applications to provide scripting to end users. List of Mozilla Products (from Wiki)

• Less is More (More is Less?) a GoogleVideo Presentation (Wiki)

• Long Tail, The: term first coined in an article in Wired (Wiki)

• Mashup: a web mashup is a website or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service (definition from Webmashup.com) (Wiki)

• Meme: definition from The Daily Meme (Wiki)

• Meta Tag Definitions and Examples (Wiki: Meta Element) and, Micro (from Wiki) and, (Micro from Wiki - other uses of term)

• Microformats: A microformat (sometimes abbreviated μF or uF) is a web-based data formatting approach that seeks to re-use existing content as metadata, using only XHTML and HTML classes and other attributes. (Wiki)

• MonoRail is a MVC Web Framework inspired by Action Pack (via castle project) (Wiki)

• moo.fx: a superlightweight, ultratiny, megasmall javascript effects library (Wiki)

• Neowin.net (Wiki)

• Neurogami LLC is the consulting company of James Britt. The goal is to provide robust solutions and smarter applications.

• Nitro is a Ruby-based web application framework. (Wiki)

• Non-empty Set from Wolfram MathWorld (Wiki: a non-empty set, axiomatically must have ’something’ in it)

• YouTube Video: Online Photo Sharing in Plain English

• Popular Online Photo Sharing WebSites include: Flickr , Photobucket , WebShots

• podcast.com Podcasting - from The Blogcast social network YouTube Video: Podcasting in Plain English (Wiki: Podcast) (Wiki: Blogcast)

• prototype.js is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. (Wiki: Prototype JavaScript Framework)

• Python (open, community-based development model programming language) (Wiki - re Phython Software Foundation) (Wiki)

• RDF - Resource Description Framework is a family of The World Wide Web Consortium (The W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model, but which has come to be used as a general method of modeling information through a variety of syntax formats. (Wiki)

• Rocketboom: a vLog (Video Blog) (Wiki)

• Rocks our to the dance noise sound of Chinese Forehead (refers to a 1970’s Rock Band - this is the sound clip) Chinese Forehead Web Page

• RSS - Really Simple Syndication YouTube Video: RSS in Plain English (Wiki)

• Ruby on Rails: a free web application framework designed to make web development faster, simpler and more efficient. (Wiki)

• Semantic Markup, Writing: an article from Digital Web Magazine (Wiki: Semantic)

• Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF). (Wiki)

• Shadow Aware - object-based video processing

• Social Bookmarking YouTube Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English

• Social Networks - “Nine Ways to Build Your Own Social Network” an article by TechCrunch

• YouTube Video: Social Networking in Plain English (Wiki) List of Social Network Sites (from Wiki)

• Some of the popular Social Networking Sites: Facebook (Wiki) , Friendster: also has many application “plug-ins” (Wiki) , LinkedIn (business oriented) (Wiki) , MySpace.com (Wiki) , Windows Live Spaces (Wiki) … Someone has listed “10 Most ‘Beautiful’ Social Networks” article at Mashable Social Networking News

• SplashDot (Wiki)

• Software Release Life Cycle - Pre-alpha, Alpha, Beta, Release Candidate, Gold (Wiki)

• Startup.com (A Move – this is a Spanish Site - but the Video is in English) The Movie about the rise and fall of the dot-coms (Wiki)

• StickBob Design Studios; home of Newgrounds, Everything by Everyone.

• Tag: a simple category name (definition from Technorati) / sometimes used interchangeably (erroneously) with “label” (Wiki)

• Tag Clouds; “Tagging” is the process of labeling data with related keywords. (Wiki)

• Technorati (Wiki)

• Travel YouTube Video: How We Do It: Manage a Travel Blog YouTube Video: 4600 Miles in 2.2 Minutes

• Travel Technology YouTube Video: Lee LeFever on Travel Technology at Ignite Seattle

• Twitter: What are you doing? (Social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging, SS or a web interface.) YouTube Video: Twitter in Plain English (Wiki)

• Validates as XHTML 1.1 is included; from W3C - World Wide Web Consortium (Wiki)

• Validator - a beta version to check Web 2.0 comliance (Wiki)

• VC is an abbreviation for many things. (Wiki) Venture capital, financing of growing businesses , In computing and telecommunications:

• Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory, a computational learning theory

• Virtual circuit, a telecommunications arrangement

• Virtual console (computer user-interface), a combination of a computer display and keyboard

• Virtual container, part of the SDH/SONET architecture

• Visual C++, an integrated development environment product engineered by Microsoft for C and C++ programing languages

• Volkov Commander, a computer program for managing files

• vLogs: Video Blogs, from Amanda UnBoomed; of specials noted in Hot Blogs (Wiki)

• Visual Effects (Society) – VES (Wiki)

• Web 2.0: what is web 2.0? - from the delicious blog. (Wiki)

• Web 2.0 Validator’s ruleset

• Web 3.0 - futurists speculate about what to expect from Web 3.0 - a ZDNet Article (Wiki)

• Wisdom of Crowds (a Wiki reference)

• Wikipedia (Wiki): is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project. YouTube Video: Wikis in Plain English

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (from Wiki): W3C sets standards for; and engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.

• XHTML is a stricter and cleaner version of HTML. (Wiki)