Web 2.0

These days I am getting lot of time over week ends. People can realize this if they look at my blog. Started exploring web 2.0 tools. Though these things came up much earlier, I just started using these services, sercices like RSS feed, micro blogging, gadgets to improve presentation of blog.

I created RSS feed for this blog using FeedBurner which you can see it in right corner of this blog above welcome message. Two or three of my friends added this feed to iGoogle home page to view contents of my blog without actually visiting my blog. This is the way they tackle my did-you-read-my-blog bugging.

Twitter, a micro blogging service, is useful to convey some news or other updates which are not qualifying for full post in blogs. I gave my Twitter feed to SpringWidget gadget which you can notice below welcome section . (I am trying to update twitter using IM service like gtalk, but somehow its not working, I am getting some gateway error. Google search results for this issue ask me to add some entries to google service gateway of thru google application control manager. But I guess solution to this will be much more simpler. So if you guys able to update twitter using IM services, please let me know.)

SlideShare is another web 2.0 services which simulates slide shows over web. You can notice Slide Share widget in my previous post 'Pay Hike 8%, Inflation 8.1%'. This is what I did - I registered myself in Slide Share, created a presentation using ‘Open Office Impress’, uploaded the presentation into ‘My Slides’ of Slide Share, copied the widget code for Slide Show and added to my post. Doesn’t it sound very simple?

And this blog is also powered by SnapShots using which users can preview the target pages of hyper links; preview satisfied people can continue their navigation by clicking on the link in preview window.

Sharing slide shows of albums uploaded in PicasaWeb and Flickr are commonly used web 2.0 services. YouTube video sharing, social book marking services like Del.icio.us, content DIGGing services, Google Maps, blogs, WIKI and lot of web 2.0 services were developed to empower people to collaborate and share their content.

One of my friend use to send daily quotes in the form of ’Thoughts of the Day (ToD)’ mails. Though they are good quotes, not many times I had time look at them. During leisure time I use to take a look at them to get myself motivated, but many of them were slipped thru my mail archives. My friend’s brother also received these ToD mails from this friend. What he did was a interesting stuff, he created a blog, Thoughts for Blogger, added mailer friend’s e-mail to contributor list and asked him to send ToD mails to thoughtsforblogger.xxxx@blogger.com which will update the blog automatically with the quotes. Without much effort, content is getting generated easily in a organized manner, way better than having them inbox. This is a perfect example of integrating web 2.0 concepts into our work flow and achieve meaningful result .

I digged to see if there is any extensive list of web 2.0 services available in web. This TecMagazine link has almost full list.

Here is a interesting introduction to Web 2.0 -