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Lightweight business models are a natural concomitant of lightweight programming and lightweight connections. The Web 2.0 mindset is good at changes in cost (O’Reilly, 2005). Lightweight models and cost-effective scalability is being used to reduce traditional web costs and risks. … Continue reading →

The Long Tail refers to the statistical property that a larger share of population rests within the tail of a probability distribution than observed under a “normal” or Gaussian distribution (Wiki, 2010). For instance, we used characters actually not too … Continue reading →

It is apparent that the Web changes the economics of application development. Applications are now free to improve on a continuous and independent basis. Development cycles that update application code on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis are no … Continue reading →

With the development of modern technologies, web applications are no longer limited to only one access device, such as PC. And applications may become much more valuable when they all connected to each others. Therefore, modern technologies and applications are … Continue reading →

Traditional network program development is based on the page and the mode of server-side data transmission. It makes the network layer processes built on top of HTML pages. With the development of web applications, the traditional page-based system cannot meet … Continue reading →

With the development of modern technologies, different kinds of application programming interface (API) are brought in Web 2.0 applications. API is an interface which aims to enable interaction with other software. A flexible website platform may facilitate data assembly and … Continue reading →

In this week, we have concentrated on anther pattern of web 2.0 applications which is “Data is the next Intel Inside”. It states that data plays the most important role for the websites. Some of web 2.0 applications, such as … Continue reading →

The web 2.0 applications have eight core patterns, and the first pattern we discussed in the past few days is Harnessing Collective Intelligence. The phrase “Harnessing Collective Intelligence”, which was mentioned by Tim O’Reilly, is a highly effective method that … Continue reading →