What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0

The term Web 2.0 is generally used for those web applications (sites) that facilitate collaboration, information sharing on the World Wide Web (WWW).  Examples of Web 2.0 are wikis, blogs, video sharing sites, social networking etc.

The difference between normal web site and Web 2.0 site lies in the way users interact with Web. A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a virtual community while users of websites are limited to the passive viewing of the content available on them.

Although the term Web 2.0 suggests a new version of World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to changes in the way software development and user community use the Web.

 For more information visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Microsoft Sharepoint 2010

Below are some new features/improvements available in MSP 2010

·         Improved Records Management and Digital Asset Management.

·         Advanced Routing – SP System determines which library/folder the new submitted document should be saved based on the associated meta-data.

·         Document Set – Allows grouping of multiple items in order to consolidate them. For example: documents related to one project can be grouped.

·         Search function has been improved with the features like ‘relevance improvement’, people search and FAST search.

·         Business processes improved

·         Chart Web part have been introduced as an aid to the data visualization.

·         Workflow designer has been improved.

·         Moving of the Workflow from test to production environment has been easy in 2010 which was not in 2007.

·         Export/Import from Visio 2010 is available. [Note: SP stores most of the contents in SQL DB instead of the file system]

·         Sharepoint 2010 is 64 bit means it requires 64-bit Windows Server 2008 and 64-bit SQL Server 2005/2008.

·         Service applications have taken place of Shared Service provider (SSP).

·         Sharepoint 2010 Support Major Browsers.

·         New Content related feature like Rich Media Management, Flexible Records Management and Content organizer

·         Tags, Tag Clouds, Tag Profile, Note board, recent activities, enterprise Wikis, ratings and Keyword suggestion are new community features.

·         Business connectivity services (BCS), Visio services and Access services are introduced as composite(mash-up) features. These services help in pulling data from different sources and combining it in a single place.