Web 2.0 and Social Networking: Weaver Birds in Information Superhighway

Web services make software functionality available over the internet so that programs like PHP, ASP, JSP, JavaBeans, the COM object and all our other favourite widgets can make a request to a program running on another server (a web service) and use that porgram's response in a website, WAP service of other applications. The social opportunities that members experience are really the best for their age and condition. In order to do so, various web applications and services are enabling to know more about what happens beyond the walls, bring people who care to interact with them side by side and develop. Essentially, it is social media for people rather than websites. The present book has discussed various aspects such as Web 2.0 and recent developments; online social communications and innovations; social networking tools and libraries; instant messaging and services in library;Library 2.0; RSS Applications; Ajax technologies; Blog and blogging; Enterprise 2.0 and Semantic Web and information retrieval in the division of ten chapters. Web based social services are self describing, modular software components made available to other applications using public networks, standard languages and transported via commonly available internet technologies.