Tag: Web 2.0

  • Blogging in the Enterprise

    Most companies dismiss blogging as unproductive. They’re wrong. Employee blogs are one of the most powerful knowledge management tools available.

  • jQuery: JavaScript That Doesn’t Suck

    I hated JavaScript until jQuery let me select DOM elements with CSS syntax. In this post I cover selectors, toggles, Ajax requests, and appending content, with code for each.

  • Is WordPress “Web 2.0?”

    Matt Mullenweg answers the question himself, and his reply is less about buzzwords than about four years of unglamorous work by dozens of contributors.

  • The Online Office Journey

    I was tired of emailing documents between computers, so I went looking for an office suite that lives in a browser. What I found in Zoho and Think Free, and where each one let me down.

  • PHP Leads Web 2.0

    An essay on why PHP became the language behind so many Web 2.0 applications: easy to learn, lightweight, extensible, and already wired to the APIs and AJAX toolkits everyone wanted.

  • The Greatest Failure of Web 2.0

    I like the Web 2.0 applications, but they refuse to talk to each other. On interoperability and reduced sign-on as the shortcoming keeping the whole movement from wider adoption.