web 2.0

Design may seem frivolous to a developer, but hot design trends can be more predictive of future development efforts than you think.

In a web based world that values fresh, meaningful content (sometimes over substance or relevance) it can actually be detrimental to “force” people to contribute to your site.

In the last several weeks, Phase2 has blogged about our development and release of an integration module for Drupal CMS with the Calais Web Service. Why did we spend time and money on it? Here’s some background.

The next stage of the Internet has been lurking around the corner for a long time and referred to as the “semantic web”. The concepts behind the semantic web are purported to have been in Tim Berners-Lee’s original intention for the Internet over 15 years ago. I suspect that means they were academically interesting, but technically impractical at the time. While I am certainly not qualified to predict exactly when this vision of the semantic web will be fulfilled as a technical reality, I can tell you about it’s enormous potential.

The finer points of “less is more” designs and why simplicity necessitates ingenuity.

Did you know AJAX can be used as an adjective? I do, because I hear it a lot. Here are some typical comments from my clients and associates.

With the explosion of web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails that advocate (and even dictate) that you use RESTful URLs for your applications, I was shocked when I discovered that Apache’s Struts 2 Java web framework does not provide near the same level of support for this behavior.

Earlier today, I posted an article form Gartner about how companies could use Web 2.0 to better their business. This afternoon, I came across a post on Click Z cautioning corporate sites against trying to create communities when it doesn’t make sense.

I think there’s a middle ground. The key is simply knowing your audience and engaging them in the right way.

My colleague Laura found a great article from UK company Gartner which highlights benefits Web 2.0 benefits for traditional companies.

Need some good modules for starting a Drupal blogging site? Look no further…