Web 2.0 Technology

The types of supply chain activities that benefit from Web 2.0 include marketing and advertising collaborating and strengthening relationships with customers and suppliers information and knowledge transfer and networking for research. These activities may be classified as either internal such as communications within and across departments, or external such as communicating with customers, suppliers, and partners. 

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Web 2.0 technologies are possible because of the adaption of programming tools, such as asynchronous JavaScript (AJAX). AJAX is a group of interrelated web development tools used to program interactive web applications. This programming aspect, combined with diffusion of residential broadband Internet access, created an environment that evolved and migrated users to a very interactive form of the Internet that facilitated interactive social networking. This AJAX-infused adaptation of the Internet is simply referred to as Web 2.0. 

With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, there are more ways than ever before to keep up and contribute to your profession via associations, interest groups, and topics. One of the best ways to find these tools is to start with your association or Special Interest Groups (SlGs). ACM is one of the best examples of this. From the main page (http //www.acm.org/), access the Special Interest Groups or Chapters links to find out about listservs, blogs, and wikis. 

Showstack R (2011) Using web 2.0 technologies to help during flood events. Eos, vol 92, No. 18... 

Another emerging technology is Web 2.0, which is anticipated to enable a business revolution by using the Internet as a platform to help online collaboration among the people, which is referred to as social computing, through the Internet. Small companies with specific domain expertise became the driving force for the niche market enabled by the Internet. The first evidence of the... 

The quality of process integration depends on the abilily of the systems involved to interact with each other seamlessly. Here technologies such as service oriented architecffires (SOA), WEB 2.0 capabilities, and international standards like ISO 10303 (STEP) and 14306 (JT) support this integration. If new solutions have to be added to the system enviromnent, the ability of integration plays a major role. This is the reason why the automotive industry started the mitiative to define a code of PLM openness (CPO) to evaluate and classify potential solutions concerning the ability to integrate (see Sect. 21.5). 

The web 2.0 revolution is twofold technological and cultural. The former has led the first steps while latter has still to come in disaster risk reduction strategies and tactics. The new < information/share/collaborate > era will enable ... 

But this sentence not addresses web 2.0 revolution, which has a technological side but deals on social side of disasters community s engagement, knowledge sharing, storytelling, proactive response. On this point of view the... 

Julia, G. (2008). Web 2.0 A vehicle for transforming education. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 4, 44—53. 

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