eBooks

Dive Into® Web 2.0 introduces the principles, applications, technologies, companies, business models and monetization strategies of Web 2.0. It provides you with Web 2.0 literacy and points you to extensive resources where you'll find additional information. Dive Into Web 2.0, along with the many free Resource Centers on the Deitel.com website, evolved from research we’ve done to build our own Web 2.0 businesses. In the spirit of Web 2.0, we are sharing this research with the community.

Dive Into Web 2.0 is a chapter from our book, Internet and World Wide Web How to Program, 4/e. By offering this chapter as an eBook and in printed form through Lulu, we're able to keep it up-to-date with the latest developments in Web 2.0.

In Dive Into Web 2.0, you'll learn: The defining characteristics of Web 2.0; why search is fundamental to Web 2.0; how Web 2.0 empowers the individual; the importance of collective intelligence and network effects; the significance and growth of blogging; social networking, social media and social bookmarking; how tagging leads to folksonomies; how web services enable new applications to be quickly and easily "mashed up" from existing applications; Web 2.0 technologies; Web 2.0 Internet business and monetization models; and the significance of the emerging Semantic Web (the "web of meaning").