The emergence of Web 2.0 is provoking challenging questions for developers: What products and services can our company provide to customers and employees using Rich Internet Applications, mash-ups, Web feeds or Ajax? If you need answers to these and related questions, you need a book-comprehensive resources and reliable guides you to the emerging and unstructured landscape that Web 2.0. Gottfried Vossen is a professor of Information Systems and Computer Science at the University of Muenster in Germany. * Presents a complete view of Web 2.0 including services and technology * Discusses potential new products and services and the ability of technology and programming necessary to make it happen * Offer 'how to' present the basics of development frameworks and best practices * Compares and contrasts Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web