Web 2.0 Communities
Unilabplus over the years have developed leading websites and online communities. Since 2004, many businesses and companies have been implementing web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies, which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.
The complex and evolving technology infrastructure of Web 2.0 includes server-software, content-syndication, messaging-protocols, standards-based browsers with plugins and extensions, and various client-applications. These differing but complementary approaches provide Web 2.0 with information-storage, creation, and dissemination capabilities that go beyond what the public formerly expected of websites.
A Web 2.0 website may typically feature a number of the following techniques:
- Rich Internet application techniques, optionally Ajax-based
- CSS
- Semantically valid HTML markup and the use of Microformats
- Syndication and aggregation of data in RSS/Atom
- Clean and meaningful URLs
- Extensive use of folksonomies (in the form of tags or tagclouds, for example)
- Use of wiki software either completely or partially (where partial use may grow to become the complete platform for the site)
- Use of Open source software either completely or partially, such as the LAMP solution stack
- XACML over SOAP for access control between organisations and domains
- Weblog publishing
- Mashups
- REST or XML Webservice APIs
Unilabplus has provided several companies with Web 2.0 solutions and continue to both research and develop in these areas including the future development of Web 3.0 (user and businesses converging via the web).