Web 2.0

The litmus test for thinking about how portable your data is might be defined by your answers to the following questions:

Can you share (or embed) your data with other applications?

Can you take it with you, quickly and easily, when you go?

Image courtesy of dbostrom.
Thinking about formats:
HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant [...]

Commenting:
The ability to respond to someone’s ideas in line, and engage in a more direct conversation with an author’s ideas. Commenting is a defining characteristic of blogs, and often when one blogger links to another blog article a linkback (or trackback) creates an extremely powerful network effect by notifying the author that you are engaging [...]

Publishing
Blogs:
One of the most highly touted features of the Web 2.0 era is the rise of blogging. Personal home pages have been around since the early days of the web, and the personal diary and daily opinion column around much longer than that, so just what is the fuss all about? At its most basic, [...]