In case you haven't heard, "Web 2.0" is a concept primarily advocated by O'Reilly Media during their periodic Web 2.0 Conference in downtown San Francisco.

Tim O'Reilly officially defines it as, "design patterns and business models for the next generation of software."

To illustrate, Markus Angermeier was kind enough to design a visual mindmap summing up the memes of Web 2.0. There are even some example sites and services listed. Check it out!

Real-world examples? Don't tell me you haven't seen:

• clouding/tagging (folksonomy; like Flickr, TagCloud, Technorati, Eurekster),
• RSS/Atom/OPML (syndication; like Bloglines, FeedBurner)
• XML/XHTML/CSS (web standards; like CSS Zen Garden)
• commenting/trackback/voting (participation; like Digg, Newsvine, Yahoo! My Web)

And that is just the beginning! Most likely you have seen and love all these sites but had no idea how it related to Web 2.0.

It is up to us as web developers to break out of our functional fixedness and find practical ways to apply these concepts in our own projects, possibly even in ways that haven't been thought of before. People just can't get enough!

How? I recommend these great books.

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