Product Description
The emergence of Web 2.0 is provoking challenging questions for
developers: What products and services can our company provide to
customers and employees using Rich Internet Applications, mash-ups, Web
feeds or Ajax? Which business models are appropriate and how do we
implement them? What are best practices and how do we apply them?
If
you need answers to these and related questions, you need this booka
comprehensive and reliable resource that guides you into the emerging
and unstructured landscape that is Web 2.0.
Gottfried Vossen is
a professor of Information Systems and Computer Science at the
University of Muenster in Germany. He is the European Editor-in-Chief
of Elseviers Information SystemsAn International Journal. Stephan
Hagemann is a PhD. Student in Gottfrieds research group focused on Web
technologies.
* Presents a complete view of Web 2.0 including services and technologies
* Discusses potential new products and services and the technology and programming ability needed to realize them
* Offers how to basics presenting development frameworks and best practices
* Compares and contrasts Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web
Review
"The most exciting aspect of this current era of the Web, which has
come to be known as Web 2.0, is that everything is read/write. Whether
it's people communicating and sharing content with each other on social
network sites like YouTube and Facebook, or computers talking to each
using web services, or people personalizing their news using RSS and
blogs, Web 2.0 is a two-way experience - it's no longer a one-way,
broadcast model as it was in the Dot Com era of the Web. Dr. Gottfried
Vossen and Stephen Hagemann have very clearly explained this transition
to the new read/write era of the Web, and they paint a picture of how
it might progress to the next stage via Semantic Web and other
technologies. This book will help you understand the ongoing evolution
of the Web, and push you to create applications that take advantage of
the read/write Web."
Richard MacManus, Editor, Read/WriteWeb (http://www.readwriteweb.com)
About the Author
Gottfried Vossen is Professor of Computer Science and a Director
of the Institür für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Münster
(Department of Information Systems, University of Muenster, Germany).
His research in the area of object-based database systems has dealt
primarily with models for data and objects, database languages,
transaction processing, integration with scientific applications, XML
and its applications, and workflow management.
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