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I must say, Web 2.0 is full of surprises and amazement in terms of marrying different technologies to come up with new web functionalities. Promoting and marketing these new breed of web applications requires a lot of planning and thinking. Naming the Web 2.0 products is one of them. And this is where Web 2.0 had achieved something totally unexpected and out of this world wide web world.
Website naming used to be a simple function directly related to the product [...]

In my previous posting about Web 2.0 Security - Part 1, I talked about security compromises that are related to vulnerability associated with AJAX, which is known as cross-site scripting.
Examining further on this highly interesting topic of Web 2.0 security, let’s look at other factors that can pose threats to Web 2.0 applications that are gaining momentum of phenomenal acceptance by the public at large.
XML Poisening
Because of highly interactive nature of Web 2.0 applications, there is a lot of traffic [...]

I think mashed potatoes is more widely known and consumed by the world population than mashed Web 2.0. Just visit any Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets and you will see how many of them are enjoying mashed potato. But ask them about mashed Web 2.0… I wonder how their faces will turn.
Popular or not, mashup webs are gaining much popularity in the Web 2.0 world.

While typical mashed potatoes recipe primarily made up of… well… just potatoes (and salt, cream, butter, milk, [...]

New technology always comes together with new forms of threats. Web 2.0 is no exception. True enough, the new Web 2.0 sites are generating lots of hypes in capabilities, offering the internet community all sort of wonderful things we can do using the websites. The benefits are huge. But sadly to say, in a rush to impress the masses with new functionality, security may have been overlooked. At least that is what some experts believe.
“We’re continuing to make the same [...]

Gone Raw is a Web 2.0 recipe site that is different from traditional recipe sites. The social recipe sharing features only delicacies that have raw ingredients. Did I spoil your appetite already? I hope not… because raw living-foods diet focuses on uncooked, unheated, unprocessed and organic foods that contain valuable living enzymes that assist in digestion and assorption of food.
The recipes have apparently been submitted by raw food lovers from around the world. The site has been up and running [...]

Four steps, that’s all you need to convert a file at Zamzar.
Step 1 - Select the files to convert (up to 100MB in size)
Step 2 - Choose the format to convert to
Step 3 - Enter your email address to receive converted files
Step 4 - Convert (by clicking you agree to Zamzar Terms of Service)
All the four steps are completed in just one screen. You also do not have to install any application software on your PC. Converting files has never [...]

 
Do you do a lot of pictures editing for whatever reasons? If you do, most likely you will have installed some kind of image editing software to fulfill your needs. More often than not, these applications are huge in size and have lots of features you don’t really need.
I am already hooked to Snipshot. It is browser based and doesn’t require any download. Plug-in installation? Nope! Simply add Snipshot bookmarklet in your browser favourites and you are ready to go.
When [...]

This Web 2.0 property search engine for UK is cool. OnOneMap.com makes searching for new property to buy or rent so much fun with its interactive features, which is a very different experience from traditional house hunting in the newspaper or even normal property listing website.
OnOneMap is also incredibly easy to use. You enter either a postcode or name of a city, town or village in the search and click OK. Properties will start appearing on the map as little [...]

YouTube is just an amazing piece of Web 2.0 real estate. Google forked out USD1.65 billion to acquire the web-media startup that was launched in February 2005, their most expensive acquistion thus far. In that short span, it was reported that YouTube had attracted 72 million audience by August 2006. All the amazingly-gifted 67 employees of YouTube are kept on Google’s payroll, leaving their shares of the USD1.65 billion virtually un-touched earning handsome interest in their bank accounts.
Being a Web [...]