Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Books

Many of our books are available as Ebook Bundles — your bookshelf on your devices! And don't forget, you can Buy 2 books, get the 3rd FREE! Use discount code: OPC10 See details.

More Web 2.0 Books

Online Courses

"One of the best things I could have ever done for my career. Thank you, O'Reilly, for making online learning accessible and flexible!"
— Dawna Macdonell

Client-Side Web Programming Certificate Series is comprised of four courses covering beginning to advanced PHP programming, beginning to advanced database programming using the SQL language, database theory, and integrated Web 2.0 programming using PHP and SQL on the Unix/Linux MySQL platform. Enroll now.

Web 2.0 Webcast

Success Factors: What traditional business really needs to know about Web 2.0

More Webcasts

Early Registration

Last Day to Save $300!

Become Location Enabled at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference.

March 30 – April 1, 2010
San Jose, CA

Registration Is Open

Register Now and Save up to $400!

Web 2.0 Expo
The event for builders of the next-generation web.

May 3 – 6, 2010
San Francisco, CA

Web 2.0 and Social Media Answers

O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

• How Twitter followers propagate information by Alistair Croll of Bitcurrent
• Software Freedom in a 'Data is the Intel Inside' world
• How to Expand Your Brand on Facebook: Groups vs. Pages and Marketing Passively
• SEO Tips for Mindshare/Branding
• How to Make Your Social Media Marketing Goals SMART

More Social Media Answers

Web 2.0 News & Commentary

Four Steps to Gov 2.0: A Guide for Agencies

February 8, 2010

What Does the World Look Like When the Work of Government is Driven by the People? Gov 2.0 has a lot of definitions, but in observing the exciting breadth of projects currently being built, it feels a little like the Blind Men and the Elephant, where everyone defines it based on their first hand experience, but not from a holistic...

Our Future World: Freedom (and Daemon)

By Brady Forrest
January 19, 2010

I just read FreedomTM the second and latest book in the Daniel Suarez's Daemon series. It was a fun, thought-provoking read and I recommend it to any technologist or sci-fi junkie (it would also make a nice Christmas gift for your favorite conspiracy theorist). This review will focus primarily on the technology of FreedomTM, but I recommend that you...

What Company Will Be the eHarmony of Microblogging?

By Mark Drapeau
January 5, 2010

A New York Times article by David Carr rehashing common knowledge on "why Twitter will endure" got me thinking about the ways in which it will not endure, or the ways in which it may endure via which no one will really care about it. So, what does it mean to "endure"? To stay in business? So what - Lord...

Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between

By Andy Oram
December 17, 2009

Social networking gives us an impetus to review how we appear online. Introduction to an article about identity and anonymity.

More Web 2.0 News & Commentary

Web 2.0 Experts

Tony Stubblebine is an Internet consultant and author of Regular Expression Pocket Reference.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. In addition to Foo Camps ("Friends of O'Reilly" Camps, which gave rise to the "un-conference" movement), O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0…

Sarah Milstein writes, speaks, and teaches frequently on Twitter. She is also co-founder of 20slides.com, a site for lively, work-related workshops. Previously, she was on the senior editorial staff at O'Reilly, where she founded the Tools of Change for Publishing conference (TOC) and led the development of the Missing Manuals, a best-selling…

Dori Smith is coauthor of Mac OS X Unwired, JavaScript for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, 4th Edition, author of Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, and a contributor to numerous online and print computer industry magazines.

More Web 2.0 Experts