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04.18.06

Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly

Web 2.0 Reading List (Books), version 0.1

People have started asking me for a Web 2.0 reading list--and I'm working on one. But in the meantime, we've published two books that should be on every Web 2.0 developer's reading list (along with more obvious books like Head Rush Ajax, Ajax Design Patterns, and Ajax Hacks). I'm referring to Google Maps Hacks and Flickr Hacks.
 

Ultimately, Web 2.0 is about the web as platform, and even if you aren't interested in hacking on Google Maps or Flickr, you should be studying their APIs, because these are the two services that have demonstrated the most viral platform behavior. There are hundreds of Google Maps mashups and sixty or so for Flickr. These services define what "open" looks like in the Web 2.0 era. (If I were a web developer, I'd be paying attention to the comments on my recent query about why developers are choosing Google Maps over the competition. )

Meanwhile, in pursuit of that longer term project, I'd love suggestions for other books and web articles that would make up a great Web 2.0 reading list.

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Dharmesh Shah   [04.19.06 06:52 AM]

As a long-time developer and software entrepreneur, I'm a little concerned about the whole "Google as Platform" thing.

I could be paranoid, but blogged about it here:

Mashups vs. Gnashups and The Dangers Of Google As Platform

R. Mullen   [05.24.06 02:42 PM]

Thanks for the list!

I'm working on translating 2.0 concepts to law through ODR (online dispute resolution), so these books will come in very handy. If your crowd stumble upon anything remotely related to Law 2.0, please let me know!

There is already a group working on this for the business crowd, but my focus is the impact that Web 2.0 is likely to have specifically on alternative dispute resolution (think: on-line arbitration, rectangularTrade applications, virtual juries, cybercourts, etc.).

This is an extremely interesting area (well, to me anyway!) because it smacks right up against the concept of legal norms, re-tasking lawyers legal services and making them more user acessible.

Law is supposedly open-sourced, but we all know it is very difficult to access without diligence or legal training. By opening up the law, identifying "public interfaces" and examining the logic of the parts, I think we might get somewhere deep with the Law 2.0 concept.

R. Mullen   [05.24.06 02:43 PM]

Thanks for the list!

I'm working on translating 2.0 concepts to law through ODR (online dispute resolution), so these books will come in very handy. If your crowd stumble upon anything remotely related to Law 2.0, please let me know!

There is already a group working on this for the business crowd, but my focus is the impact that Web 2.0 is likely to have specifically on alternative dispute resolution (think: on-line arbitration, rectangularTrade applications, virtual juries, cybercourts, etc.).

This is an extremely interesting area (well, to me anyway!) because it smacks right up against the concept of legal norms, re-tasking lawyers legal services and making them more user acessible.

Law is supposedly open-sourced, but we all know it is very difficult to access without diligence or legal training. By opening up the law, identifying "public interfaces" and examining the logic of the parts, I think we might get somewhere deep with the Law 2.0 concept.

John McIntosh   [04.13.07 10:17 AM]

These are great books for developers. What would you recommend for marketing people? C-level executives?


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