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? Which business models are appropriate and how do we implement them? What are best practices and how do we apply them?
If you need answers to these and related questions, you need this booka comprehensive and reliable resource that guides you into the emerging and unstructured landscape that is Web 2.0.
* Presents a complete view of Web 2.0 including services and technologies
* Discusses potential new products and services and the technology and programming ability needed to realize them
* Offers how to basics presenting development frameworks and best practices
* Compares and contrasts Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web
Gottfried Vossen is a professor of Information Systems and Computer Science at the University of Muenster in Germany. He is the European Editor-in-Chief of Elseviers Information SystemsAn International Journal. Stephan Hagemann is a PhD. Student in Gottfrieds research group focused on Web technologies.
* Presents a complete view of Web 2.0 including services and technologies
* Discusses potential new products and services and the technology and programming ability needed to realize them
* Offers how to basics presenting development frameworks and best practices
* Compares and contrasts Web 2.0 with the Semantic Web

Take a somewhat simple blog design and turn it from a PSD into a dynamic website. Since I began running Nettuts+ nearly a year ago, the number one tutorial request I’ve received is for a PSD to screencast. Today, we’re releasing a complete series on our Premium site. Over the course of fourteen videos, I will personally teach you how to take a PSD design and convert first to HTML, and then to a dynamic site. This was a massive undertaking; I hope you’ll consider signing up if it interests you.

In his latest class, From Oz to Kansas 2.0, master photographer Vincent Versace takes the student through the various processes and conversion options using both Photoshop and several 3rd party plug-in options. The result is a thorough explanation that yields impressive control over a wide variety of subtle aspects of black and white images converted from color originals. You will learn several conversion techniques and methods for blending various conversions with one another to give you, the artist, a finished image that is the exact image you saw in your mind’s eye when you first considered your image. From tradition and theory to practical implementation, From Oz to Kansas 2.0 is exactly the kind of class that has helped Versace develop his loyal following.

In his latest class, From Oz to Kansas 2.0, master photographer Vincent Versace takes the student through the various processes and conversion options using both Photoshop and several 3rd party plug-in options. The result is a thorough explanation that yields impressive control over a wide variety of subtle aspects of black and white images converted from color originals. You will learn several conversion techniques and methods for blending various conversions with one another to give you, the artist, a finished image that is the exact image you saw in your mind’s eye when you first considered your image. From tradition and theory to practical implementation, From Oz to Kansas 2.0 is exactly the kind of class that has helped Versace develop his loyal following.

The recent near-collapse of the global financial sector and the resulting economic problems have caused a great deal of re-examining of the fundamental principles of globalization. This book showcases how leading managers perceive the current crises and the future of globalization. It offers trendsetting answers, solutions and a roadmap for the roadblocks facing future economic growth which are proposed by leading minds from world-leading companies such as CISCO Systems, British Telecom, Lufthansa Technik, Henkel, A.T. Kearney, Roland Berger, Arthur D. Little, Kienbaum, T-Systems, Mercedes-Benz technology, Landis and Gyr, Conergy.