Chapter 3 Enabling Techniques and Technologies
In this chapter, we take a closer look at some of the most prominent technical mechanisms that are commonly attributed to Web 2.0 developments and in particular to Web 2.0 services. We start with Rich Internet Applications which, today, exist for a broad variety of functions (e.g., for personal information management or for office applications including the writing of documents or the execution of spreadsheet calculations). These online applications allow for a kind of functionality and interactivity that have so far been exclusively reserved for desktop applications; they can hence be considered as a materialization of the network computer (i.e., the “NC” as opposed to the PC, the personal computer) ...
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