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Real Web 2.0: Bookmarks? Tagging? Delicious!
In this article, you'll learn how to work with del.icio.us, one of the classic Web 2.0 sites, using Web XML feeds and JSON, in Python and ECMAScript. When you think of Web 2.0 technology, you might think of the latest Ajax tricks, but that is just a small part of the picture. More fundamental concerns are open data, simple APIs, and features that encourage users to form social networks. These are also what make Web 2.0 a compelling problem for Web architects. This column will look more than skin deep at important real-world Web 2.0 sites and demonstrate how Web architects can incorporate the best from the Web into their own Web sites.
Articles 26 Oct 2006  
 
Real Web 2.0: Battling Web spam, Part 2
This two-part installment provides a thorough guide to anti-spam techniques. This second article discusses content analysis, the problem with spam in linkbacks, and how to share in the anti-spam effort with a community of other Web site managers through blacklists and anti-spam services.
Articles 09 Dec 2008  
 
Real Web 2.0: Battling Web spam, Part 1
Spam on the Web is one of the biggest threats to a modern Web developer. The "bad guys" become more and more sophisticated every year in how to vandalize and proliferate ads over any Web 2.0 page they can grasp. To make matters worse, spam is increasingly used to distribute malware. The arms race is on, and Web developers need to know what basic tools are available to battle spam on their Web sites. This two-part installment provides a thorough guide to anti-spam techniques. This first article explains how to assess whether a visitor is a spammer and how to organize site workflow to discourage spam.
Articles 02 Dec 2008  
 
Real Web 2.0: The Wikipedia family
You know Wikipedia, but do you know of the dozens of related sites that provide user-generated content that is just as valuable? Many of the related sites under the Wikipedia umbrella are very useful to Web developers. Learn how to enrich your information space with resources beyond Wikipedia, including examples of widgets applying data from these sites.
Articles 04 Nov 2008  
 
Real Web 2.0: Mastering the Creative Commons
The Creative Commons (CC) initiative develops popular licenses for content, including Web content. Some people think using these licenses means giving up all your rights to content, but this is just one of many misconceptions. Learn how to choose and use CC licenses for your Web sites and applications and how to process these licenses in code.
Articles 07 Oct 2008  
 
Real Web 2.0: Open, geographic information systems at Geonames.org
One of the best sources for geographical information for users and developers is a shining example of the power of open data. GeoNames is a database, Web service, and destination site for all things geographical. It has a rich, RESTful API and offers Semantic Web features using Linking Open Data conventions. Learn how to use GeoNames, as a user and as a developer.
Articles 30 Sep 2008  
 
Real Web 2.0: Practical linked, open data with Exhibit
In the previous installment of this column you learned about Linking Open Data (LOD), a community initiative for moving the Web from separated documents to a broad information space of data. That article covered the main ideas of LOD, and in this article you will see how to quickly put these ideas to use. Learn about the Exhibit Web library from the MIT Simile project, which allows you to construct functional and visually attractive user interfaces without much work, once you have good LOD available.
Articles 13 May 2008  
 
Real Web 2.0: Linking open data
Learn about Linking Open Data (LOD), a community initiative for moving the Web from the idea of separated documents to a wide information space of data. The key principles of LOD are that it is simple, readily adaptable by Web developers, and complements many other popular Web trends. Learn how to make your data more widely used by making its components easier to discover, more valuable, and easier for people to reuse--in ways you might not anticipate.
Articles 05 Feb 2008  
 
Real Web 2.0: Wikipedia, champion of user-generated content
Encourage user contribution to your Web site by learning from Wikipedia. Wikipedia builds on open source and respects the geographical variety and potential accessibility needs of its users. It provides tools to help users contribute, but also fosters an atmosphere where contributions are verified and discussed by the community.
Articles 04 Sep 2007  
 
Real Web 2.0: Quick and dirty Web applications with bookmarklets
Web 2.0 is well known for the fact that it's not built on breathtaking new inventions, but rather on renewed emphasis on age-old Web technologies. One of those age-old technologies that is enjoying a revival in Web 2.0 is bookmarklets. A bookmarklet is essentially a Web application shoehorned into a regular browser bookmark. This article includes a fully functioning bookmarklet and installation instructions you can use to highlight text on any Web page and search IBM developerWorks for that text.
Articles 07 Aug 2007  
 
Real Web 2.0: Meet digg.com and Reddit, heirs of Slashdot
Explore the user and developer features that make up a modern Web news site. digg.com and Reddit are popular sites, both as destinations in themselves and as sources for mashups and other ways to provide customized experiences to users. Examine an example customization of Reddit using the Greasemonkey extension for Mozilla Firefox.
Articles 26 Jun 2007  
 
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