REST and WS web services

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A web service is a computer interface protocol of the family of web technologies allowing the communication and the exchange of data between heterogeneous applications and systems in distributed environments. It is thus a set of functionalities exposed on the … Read More

Video hosting offers

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The hosting sites allow videos to be hosted on their servers and video broadcast streaming. There are many websites that offer this service, such as YouTube, Dailymotion, Wat TV, DreamVids, Hulu or RuTube. In March 2008, the feature Révolta, Kilomètre … Read More

What is Web 2.0?

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The rapid recent diffusion web applications such as blogs, podcasts, wikis and social networking sites has often been referred to as “Web 2.0”, (The 2.0 evidently alluding to the version-numbers that commonly designate software upgrades.), (According to Anderson (2007) and … Read More

Web 2.0 in European Union

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“Web 2.0” is defined as a set of applications, technologies and user roles. The applications include blogs, wikis, social tagging, social gaming etc., even though it may not always be fully clear whether a specific application is Web 2.0 or … Read More

Web 2.0 & Comp

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Version numbers After the appearance of the term “Web 2.0”, a nomenclature appeared to describe the present, the past and the future of the Web. The uses presented here are not necessarily the only ones. In addition, for certain numbers … Read More

Criticism for Web 2.0

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Technological content Unlike terms like HTML 4.01, indicating a specific technology, or Internet2 (with which it should not be confused and designating a consortium), Web 2.0 has no precise definition by consensus. The changes he designates do the result from … Read More

News aggregators

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In computing, a number of aggregator software braid several syndication threads together. It alerts the updating of a website or published news (by notification sound, visual, etc.). Also, it imports the new content in question and does it for a … Read More

Economics of crowdsourcing

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Volunteering, volunteerism and altruism … or economic benefit? In some cases, the “crowd” willing to participate generously offers a priori powers, their data. Participants may feel somehow reimbursed for their work with results that will benefit everyone, or estimate that … Read More

Crowdsourcing

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Crowdsourcing, or participatory production, one of the emerging areas of knowledge management, is the use of creativity, intelligence and know-how of a large number of people, outsourcing, to perform certain tasks traditionally performed by an employee or contractor. This is … Read More

Marketing 2.0

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The idea of Marketing 2.0 refers to a new generation of emerging marketing concepts of the Internet age. The term was popularized in 2005 when several experts also spoke of Web 2.0. Adetem, the marketing association, devoted his October 2007 … Read More

Mashup (web application hybrid)

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A composite application (mashup, or mash-up) is an application that combines content or services from multiple applications more or less heterogeneous. We talk about mashup through a superposition of two images from different sources, superposition of different visual and audio … Read More

1% rule in Internet culture

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(Graphic showing the proportion of lurkers, contributors and creators.) In cyberspace, the assumption of 1%, also called rule or law of 1%, or 90-9-1 principle, reflects the fact that participation and earnings are highly uneven in an online community. Thus, … Read More

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