what is Web 2.0 technologies?

1) Introduction
In this modern technological era the e-commerce or online booking system are typically based on the WEB 2.0 and the frequent usage of this is more and more in this technological world. Web 2.0 is not specific technology and it is referred to as web technologies, which deals with higher level of creativity for example(flash websites ,css-fluidsites),social networking sites(myspace,friseter) and community and collaboration-base sites like(blogs,wikis).The paradigms and the model for the World Wide Web are basically and widely agreed by the trend. In this enhancing and changing technology the offered application and its infrastructure the performance and the evaluation studies are main concern to provide a sound solution when structuring and designing new web related system. This paper gives you the elaborated and dynamic work load which shows the practical application of a model which illustrated with a good case study.
Web 2.0 can be characterised by open sharing, online communities (e.g. - orkut), collaborative and interactivity.

2)Common principles and policies of web 2.0
The following points are some of the common principles and policies, namely:
1) One of the way using the web as a application and content deployed platform.
Example is flickr (www.flickr.com), it is one of the online photo site with many features of web 2.0.
2) Leveraging the web as a participatory and merely as a publishing platform. There are some of the innovative web sites that explains this pratise:
Wikipedia (where any user can add any thing to the encyclopedia)
• Del.icio.us and flickr (automatically the users are able to create the tags, annotate content etc)
• Collaborative spam which helps in filtering the products that are able to aggregate the individual decisions of users which explains what is and what is not spam.
3) the useful tools are simply offering provides the valuable content. The content need not be improved by the same individual or party but the main role id played by the community.
4) The frequent users can be assumed as co-developers. If you consider with the real world the behaviour explains the new features are used and how they are used.
Eg. The website like flicker will be updated and build with new features every half an hour.
5) The syndicate services and content are supported and opposed to central control.
E.g. - Really Simple Syndication (RSS) it is one of the syndicate content such as new stories.


3) Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management
 Share what you have learned, created, proved
 Innovate to be more creative, inventive, imaginative
 Reuse what others have already done
 Collaborate to take advantage of what others already know
 Learn by doing from others and from existing information



4)Gaining competitive advantage through web 2.0:

Most of businesses are taking advantage of web 2.0 technologies today by extending the value of computing technology to the extranet and which increases the efficacy of the value network. By a company can easily preserve the tacit knowledge of the organisation and optimises the efficiency and creative ideas of a global talent pool.

A Web 2.0 vision that declares value to business today:
Web 2.0 vision is mainly built on three parameters:
They are people (social computing), platform (web as applet form),enabling technologies
Social computing is more focussed on enabling people to connect,collaborate and innovate moreover it enables your internal teams in capturing and preserving the collective knowledge and expertise of the entire value chain process across different geographic boundaries this helps in creating more collaborative and dynamic company culture that fosters innovation.

Today business should recognise that a younger, more technology-savvy generation of people comprises of 25% of the total workforce and statistics shows that there is a steep increase up to 47% by the end of 2014.

This generation of people are more associated with latest technologies skills and who are more adaptable and interactive as this member of youngsters become a larger population in the work force as companies will benefits from adapting and supporting social computing technologies. social computing is the era of empowered people and innovation is no longer top down but has become bottom-up as the value of the individuals of the organisation and comments are wicker into to the fabric of product and services.

Benefits delivered by social computing technologies:
It is easy to capture and preserve the tacit knowledge
It helps in leveraging information more effectively
It helps in enabling expertise to be delivered and also helps completing tasks as soon as possible.

IBM has introduced newer sciences to help the organisation collaboration and social networking to maximise the employee talent and performance
As web 2.0 technologies gains competitive advantage business.

5)Technical
The effort made for the internal development gives the indication that the knowledge management infrastructure is more sophisticated than shared file area was needed. After in-depth review in the market place for such tools the team made an effort to implement the EMC/Documentum’s E-Rooms and the content management services. The content management services enable life-cycle management metadata tagging, publishing versioning, and auditing of content. The main things like project management, virtual asynchronous collaboration, voting, decision capture, document versioning, scheduling and over all team coordination are supported by E-Room. All these features are essential to support in making the efficient decision, decision capture and decision auditability among the all stake holders engaged I the knowledge management life cycle. It includes the leadership, subject matter expert panel, knowledge engineers, developers, analysts and project management personal. If all the above things are integrated or join together to the web 2.0 the environment provides an interdisciplinary community of the subject experts and engineers with knowledge can collaboratively review discuss and engineer decision support content.
6) Summary and conclusions
After the critical and in-depth discussion and analysis this section summarises the web 2.0 based on the knowledge management system based on some principles and the experts writing as we discussed in the above discussions. The web 2.0 is a tool for collaborating on decision support and it appears to be very strong especially in collaborative content with in the organisation. However at the end of the day all the technical issues, legal policy, the number of organisations and the technical issues which remain unsolved matters. The use of web 2.0 for collaborative development and sharing of software decision support is relatively recent and it seems that clarity on many of these issues may be achieved simply by gaining more experience. There are some key issuses which need a great be resolved with the great experience. Some may need great effort and the real work to solve and develop the product. Such as some issues need a clear liability frame work which can be developed through the combination of legislation and regulation along with the development of a body of case law is needed to clarify legal issues. Regarding the issues of intellectual property a great potential commercial or competitive value of discussion is needed. The further technical work is needed to solidify knowledge representation format and metadata. But all these challenges are not withstanding the future for web 2.0 in software decision support seems bright and it is every once quest to know and to see the new technologies and their use evolve and the acknowledgement.


References:
- Gwen Solomon & Lynne Schrum, n.d , Web 2.0 New tools , new schools, pg no 45- 46. retrieved on 3 april.

-Tim O'Reilly, September 30, 2005, What Is Web 2.0, Retrieved on April 01 ,2009, from http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html