Most of us must have become aware of companies these days making an attempt to craft some very remarkable offerings in the social Networking Space. Majority of businesses believe that social networking will infuse their practices with everything around. You take my example; I must have signed for more than 20 social networks and member of different Web 2.0 community groups. In the last few months I have been keeping track of the apparently never-ending flow of news and blog coverage about Google’s new OpenSocial model for social networking applications. A lot of specialists have remarked this Google? move, as a shot to corner Facebook. To me this is a captivating set of developments to watch since Google’s own growing social networking platform, Orkut, was overshadowed by Facebook in terms of overall traffic back in September. Read more…

To a lot of people Web 2.0 might just suggest a new version of the World Wide Web, but to me it refers to changes in the way software developers and end-users use the web as a platform. It is nothing but a two-way communication between the users using the web as a platform. We can call it as exchange of information and network among the web users through some web based communities. Read more…