As a way of exploring the use of the blog? feature on this site, and building some common vocabulary around key terms that will be useful to our technology planning, I thought I would post a series of blog entries on Web 2.0? Technologies.

These articles will intentionally be short and written for non-techies. Here's an initial list of Web 2.0 technology topics I thought I would cover. As articles are written, the topics here will link to them.

• What is Web 2.0?
• Blog technology -- the architecture of a blog
• Web Feed technology -- How to publish content from one site to other sites or to personal RSS?/Atom Readers
• Feed Reader Technology -- a tool that an individual can use to track postings to tens or hundreds of websites and blogs
• Drupal? platform -- An open-source LAMP? CMS? (content management system? based on Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)
• AJAX -- a popular technology for creating real-time updates to webpages without having to refresh them
• Mashup -- The use of a thin layer of technology to combine two or more disconnected sites into an even more powerful combination
• Wiki? -- A simple tool to facilitate unstructured content collaboration
• Shared Calendar -- how to publish/manage an online calendar for a group or the general public (Google, Upcoming, etc.)
• iCal Reader/Subscriber -- how to subscribe to a shared calendar
• Joomla? -- another open-source LAMP CMS
• Ruby on Rails -- another popular technology for building Web 2.0 systems
• OpenID -- A fairly new standard for using a single userid/password to login to multiple websites
• SOAP/REST/JSON-based APIs -- ways of allowing websites to talk to each other (this is really web 1.0)
• Folksonomy -- how to categorize and popularize web content (Del.icio.us, Digg, etc.)
• Facebook / MySpace (and other social networking sites)
• Skype / Twitter (and other Video/Instant Messenger services)
• CSS and Theming -- Cascading Style Sheets, a key tool used to control the look and feel of a website and how content is presented, which is generally referred to as theming.