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Web 2.0 Widgets November 14, 2007

Posted by developpeur in : Cheat Sheets, Web2.0, Widgets, Zeitgeist , 3comments

Define Widget:

Web Widgetmania

Blogging Widgets

Communities / Comunidades / Communautes

Social Bookmarking

Image Widgets

Ajax Homepages

Dev:

Desktop Widgets:

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Bye PHP4 – Welcome Facebook July 18, 2007

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This week there were 2 major news that got my attention. Unrelated one from the other but still big news on the same week.

Seems like PHP4 is history, according to their website:

“The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.”

Therefore, we have to keep in mind this and STOP installing scripts for version 4, although ALL my servers and the ones that I manage are running PHP5 since almost 3 years ago, yet I’ve been pushed over my limits sometimes to install PHP4 scripts (against my will that is, hehehe). But now is official, it’s a BAD idea to install or develop PHP scripts previous to version 5, don’t even mind backwards compatibility since PHP6 is on the way!

I’ll keep these handy links, just in case:

 

The other big news is that Facebook (PR8) is moving forward, although it has been a Top 10-20 site on the net for a while now (2nd largest social portal behind MySpace), it has announced major changes, and some people describe it as the new MySpace, but in my opinion is far more than that, it’s also a developers platform framework such as Google or Firefox, that is: you may develop your own applications (gadget, widget, addons, module or however you wish call it) to run on Facebook, such as Firefox Extrensions or Google Gadgets (only better or so it seems).

Over 1,700 applications for Facebook have been developed to this date. Yeap, seems like the Web 2.0 era is diving deeper.

Facebook has generated a lot of controversy since last year when Yahoo wanted to buy it and its founder Mark Zuckerberg was pointed out as stealing the code from a Harvard project.

One way or another, Facebook is today’s news, and here are some links worth visiting:

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What is Web 2.0 March 15, 2007

Posted by developpeur in : English, Web2.0, Zeitgeist , 1 comment so far

COMPARISON WEB 1.0 vs WEB 2.0

Web 1.0 Web 2.0
DoubleClick –> Google AdSense
Ofoto –> Flickr
Akamai –> BitTorrent
mp3.com –> Napster
Britannica Online –> Wikipedia
personal websites –> blogging
evite –> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation –> search engine optimization
page views –> cost per click
screen scraping –> web services
publishing –> participation
content management systems –> wikis
directories (taxonomy) –> tagging (”folksonomy”)
stickiness –> syndication

WEB 2.0 PRINCIPLES:

  1. The Web As Platform
  2. Harnessing Collective Intelligence
  3. Data is the Next “Intel Inside”
  4. End of the Software Release Cycle
  5. Lightweight Programming Models
  6. Software Above the Level of a Single Device
  7. Rich User Experiences

CORE COMPETENCIES OF WEB 2.0 COMPANIES:

  1. Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
  2. Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
  3. Trusting users as co-developers
  4. Harnessing collective intelligence
  5. Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
  6. Software above the level of a single device
  7. Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models

WEB 2.0 TECH STANDARDS::

WEB 2.0 HIGHLIGHTS

  1. Free Contents
  2. Free Information Flow
  3. Free Applications.
  4. Data Control by the user
  5. Data Device Compatibility.
  6. Enrich User Experience
  7. Colective Knowledge based on users.
  8. Web Social Factor Management aiming to final user
  9. Colective Innovation supported by users
  10. Focus on social networks (blogs, myspace, etc).
  11. Network Interactive Services
  12. Convert Desktop software to Web software.
  13. Single URL optimization.

Source: Tim O’Reilly

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)

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