Tutorial 3.1: Web 2.0 - Business Model and Technologies
Part 1: Web 2.0, an overview
Presenting Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is not just a technology. Sociology and new business models are playing an important part in Web 2.0. This section will give a shallow overview of  the various facets of Web 2.0 and will set the stage for the next sections.
Part 2: The client side - AJAX and Mashups
AJAX is an important building block of the Web 2.0 applications. In this part we will delve into AJAX:
How its work, How did it improve the usability of web applications, Shortcomings, Frameworks, Future trends
Part 3: The server side - REST, ATOM and JSON
REST forms the basis for most server side work in Web 2.0. Moreover, the pure REST is only part of a large family of conventions known as REST. This part will present REST, with its most known variants and will present the ATOM Publishing Protocol as an incarnation of REST.

Gal Shachor, IBM Research, Israel