Web Technologies Introduction Web Technologies are playing the leading role in the World Wide Web includes many latest evolutions in it like Web Services, Web 2.0, Tableless Design, HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS 2.0 etc. Web technology aims to enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Web Technologies have been developing since last years and are still …. Web 2.0,Web 3.0 are the main revolutionary Technologies of it.

Evolution of Web 2.0 The term first became notable after the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in Initially in 1996 Web 1.0 was introduced by same O’Reilly Media, which was not user friendly platform having many difficulties to search or share and also even retrieve information. Web 2.0 is the new and revolutionary change that is sweeping the Web and allowing users to interact with the data available there in ways we never dreamed possible 10 years ago. The explosive growth and mind-blowing rapid pace of changes in the technology has compelled the business world to integrate for the latest technology amends."

Wide Spread of Web 2.0 Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web culture communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs. Web 2.0 sites often feature a rich, user friendly interface based on Ajax, jquery, similar rich media.

Web 2.0’s latest technology amendments Social Networking Websites: Social networks connect people at low cost. This can be beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand their contact base. The social network sites focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities. Video Sharing Websites: Video sharing refers to websites or software where users can distribute their video clips. Some services may charge, but the bulk of them offer free services. Wiki’s: A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language.

Blogs: A blog is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. A blog can also be understood as the Web personal Diary. Online Tutorial Websites: Online Tutorial websites are providing valuable information which is helping lots of users around the world to learn the various technical information including, online Computer Based language tutorials.

Importance of Blogs in Web 2.0 A Blog is a contraction of the term “Web Log”. A blog can also be understood as the Web personal Diary. There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written: Personal Blogs Technology Blogs Corporate Blogs News Blogs Healthcare Blogs Fashion Blogs Blogging is the latest innovation to take the web by storm. According to blog tracking firm Technorati, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added every day.

And 30 percent of all 50 million internet users are blog readers. The blogs are providing the useful information for the users but the blog authors were earning a lot for providing that information for the users. The main source of revenue for the blog authors is from Google Adsense and from other affiliate sources like Widget Bucks etc.. and the also from Sponsorers. In short, a lot of people are reading and writing blogs. Some of the popular blogs like: John Chow’s blog (earnings $34,350.93/month) (China) Labnol’s blog (earnings $20,000.84/month) (India) Shoemoney’s blog (earnings $132,994.97/month) (US) Gadgetcage’s blog (earnings $15,000$/month) (India) Some of the Blog Hosting Websites are Blogger, Wordpress, Ibibo, FreeWebs etc.

Creating a Website: Rules to be followed in creating a Website: Rules to be followed in creating a Website: 1. The CONTENT of your site must be interesting and worthwhile. 2. The site must be easy to navigate. 3. Optimize Your Graphics.

Criticism of Web 2.0 Argument that Web 2.0 is not a new version of Web technology, it is simply inherited the concepts of Web 1.0 which are displayed by modifying them. Many of the ideas of Web 2.0 had already been featured in implementations on networked systems well before the term "Web 2.0" emerged.

6 New Web Technologies of 2008 Identity Management: Identity Management: Three great technologies OpenID, Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect. HTML 5: HTML 5: HTML 5 will eventually replace HTML 4.01, the dominant programming language currently used to build web pages. Lifestreaming: Lifestreaming: A new breed of social app has arisen to help us manage the mess of information overload. FireFox 3: FireFox 3: The most highly anticipated software releases of the year, more than 8 million people downloaded Firefox 3 on the first day. Google Chrome: Google Chrome: Chrome is a browser built to empower web applications. Location Awareness: Location Awareness: Location-based information ceased being a fancy add-on and instead became a requirement of any serious, successful web service.

End of Great Era At the mid 90’s the users while browsing of the websites (or) sending the mails, has to follow a massive process in Web 1.0. But after the evolution of Web 2.0 in 2004 the browsing, Sending mails, Sharing ideas, videos and pictures, Searching, Navigation and other Web applications have became user friendly and also even much faster than ever. Web 3.0 is one of the terms used to describe the evolutionary stage of the Web that follows Web 2.0. Web 3.0 is highly speculative. 1. Web 1.0 was dial-up 50K average bandwidth 2. Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth 3. Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0 As the Technology is growing day by day, it is not surprising to see the evolution of new technologies by overriding the old ones.

Let’s Have a brief look at Web Web 1.0: Web 1.0: Web 1.0 connects people to a public, shared environment — World Wide Web. But Web 1.0 essential does not facilitate direct communication between web readers and writers. Web 2.0: Web 2.0: Web 2.0 not only connects individual users to the Web, but also connects these individual uses together. It fixes the previous disconnection between web readers and writers. Web 3.0: Web 3.0: Semantic Web, when it is realized, will connect virtual representatives of real people who use the World Wide Web. It thus will significantly facilitate the exploration of web resources.

Conclusion According to Best, the characteristics of Web 2.0 are: rich user experience, user participation, dynamic content, metadata, web standards and scalability, openness, freedom and collective intelligence by way of user participation. Many latest Technologies like Blogs, Tutorial Websites, Social Network websites, Search Engines, Other Desktop applications like Download toolbars, Google Tools etc came into existence which are having great impact on Man’s Web Daily needs. But because of the recent global economical meltdown the Era of Web 2.0 has ended in 2008 giving rise to New Era Web 3.0 which is going to deliver a new generation of business applications that will see business computing.