Web 2.0 Reference Center
Essential technologies and concepts for understanding the Web as a Platform. Share others here.
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| Web2.0 | AJAX | RSS | SSE | Atom |
| RDF | OPML | REST | SOAP | XML-RPC |
| JavaScript | CSS | XHTML | XSLT | HTTP |
| Widgets | API | Tags | Microformats | |
| Web2.0 | |
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| What Is Web 2.0? | From publisher Tim O'Reilly. Start here. |
| Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices | O'Reilly Radar report on Web 2.0 best practices. Written by our own John Musser. |
| Breaking the Web Wide Open | Very good overview of the trends underlying Web 2.0. By Marc Canter. |
| Introduction to Web 2.0 | Clear, concise introduction with good reference links. By Joshua Porter. |
| Web 2.0 - Wikipedia | Comprehensive Wikipedia entry. |
| Crucial DNA of Web 2.0 | Good overview and history (be sure to view the full PDF). By Brandon Schauer at adaptive path. |
| Web 2.0 | Thoughtful commentary on Web 2.0 by Paul Graham. |
| Web 2.0 Conference | Official site for O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Conference. |
| Web 2.0 for Designers | Some Web 2.0 background and interface design advice from by Richard MacManus and Joshua Porter. |
| AJAX | |
| Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications | Jesse James Garret's seminal article that defined the term. |
| Ajax - Wikipedia | Wikipedia definition. Lots of good references from here. |
| Ajax Patterns | Ajax portal and wiki. Homepage for the upcoming book Ajax Design Patterns by Michael Mahemoff. |
| Ajaxian | Good AJAX reference site and blog. |
| How to Use AJAX | informIT article from Kris Hadlock on basics of AJAX programming. |
| script.aculo.us | AJAX style JavaScript resources |
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| RSS | |
| All About RSS | Concise overview from Fagan Finder. |
| Getting Started with RSS | Non-technical RSS tutorial from Paul Stamatiou. Screenshots of various RSS readers. |
| Making an RSS Feed | Good summary from Search Engine Watch on how the details of what goes into building an RSS feed from scratch. |
| RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 Compared | Helpful, clear technical comparison of these two feed formats. From Tim Bray. |
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| SSE | |
| SSE Draft Specification | The initial draft of "Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML" at Microsoft's XML Developer Center. |
| SSE FAQ | The initial SSE FAQ at microsoft.com. |
| Atom | |
| What Is Atom | Good, concise summary at XML.com |
| The Atom API | Overview and history of the API. |
| Atom - Wikipedia | Wikipedia entry |
| RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 Compared | Helpful, clear technical comparison of these two feed formats. From Tim Bray. |
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| RDF | |
| RDF | W3C RDF standard. |
| RDF - Wikipedia | Includes references to ontologies and application.s |
| RDF Tutorials | W3Schools tutorials on RDF, from introduction through collections and OWL. |
| What is RDF? | Tim Bray's introductory article at xml.com. |
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| OPML | |
| OPML.org | From the creator of OPML, Dave Winer. |
| OPML - Wikipedia | Includes OPML basics, example uses, and alternatives. |
| OPML Screencast | OPML 101 as a Flash movie. From Alex Barnett. |
| Video: OPML in Six Minutes | A screencast presentation by David Tebbutt as distilled from an earlier conference presentation. |
| REST | |
| REST | Architectural Styles and Design of Network-based Software Architectures. Roy Thomas Fielding's original paper that coined the REST term/acronym. |
| REST - Wikipedia | Comprehensive overview with good references. |
| eBay API with REST and PHP | Good starting point for using the eBay REST API with PHP 5. |
| REST Web Services for Ruby on Rails | Video by Chris Abad on creating REST web services for Ruby on Rails. Also links to PDF of slides from presentation. |
| SOAP | |
| SOAP Specifications | Official W3C specification. |
| SOAP - Wikipedia | Wikipedia definition. |
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| XML-RPC | |
| XML-RPC Home Page | Home page for XML-RPC includes full specification, tutorials, and community sections. |
| XML-RPC - Wikipedia | Brief overview at Wikipedia. |
| XML-RPC vs SOAP | Basic comparison of the two protocols. |
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| JavaScript | |
| Dynamic Drive DHTML | Library of JavaScript, AJAX, and other DHTML resources. |
| Hacking Google Maps: Building a Community Site | Sample chapter from the book Hacking Google Maps by Martin C Brown. Code samples use JavaScript and Perl. |
| JavaScript - Wikipedia | Very detailed introduction at Wikipedia. |
| JavaScript Tutorial | Good JavaScript tutorials and reference guides at W3Schools. |
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| CSS | |
| Cascading Style Sheets Specification | W3C main page for CSS specification. |
| CSS Tutorial | Series of tutorials at W3Schools. |
| CSS - Wikipedia | Includes history, examples, and useful references. |
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| XHTML | |
| XHTML Specification | W3C HTML and XHTML specifications. |
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| XSLT | |
| XSLT | W3C XLST standard. |
| XSLT Tutorials | Good series from W3Schools. |
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| Widgets | |
| 25 Things to Think About Widgets | High-level outline of 25 widget development considerations. |
| Widget Best Practices | Overview of widget development best practices including type, sizing, functionality and viral distribution techniques. From ClearSpring. |
| Widget Developer Marketplace | ClearSpring forum for matching widget development projects with widget developers. |
| Widget Drop Target Matrix | Very useful matrix of the widget capabilities and restrictions of some of the more popular web destinations and what they support. |
| World Wide Web of Widgets | Good overview of the widget marketplace 2007. From Read/Write Web. |
| API | |
| API - Wikipedia | API, Application Programming Interface, via Wikipedia. |
| Tags | |
| Social Bookmarking Tools | Detailed review of social bookmarking tools. |
| Folksonomy | Wikipedia entry on tagging and folksonomy. |
| Microformats | |
| Microformats and Web 2.0 | Good intro article at XML.com |
| Microformats Primer | Concise introduction from Digital Web Magazine. |
| microformats.org | Microformats reference and information site. |
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