Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Web 2.0 and SharePoint

Web 2.0 for Enterprise is all about turning users into participants allowing them to easily create, share and connect with information, applications and people.

Examples of out-of-the-box "Web 2.0" applications with SharePoint technology include:

1. Blogs and Wikis
2. Team Workspaces (collaboration)
3. Search
4. Displaying office applications as web pages and Excel Services
5. Web Content Management
6. WebParts(Portlets)
7. AJAX,XML and SOA technology support


Best example Web 2.0 application is : facebook

we could enhance the existing web 2.0 features in sharepoint by adding CodePlex's Community Kit for SharePoint

http://www.codeplex.com/CKS

http://www.communitykitforsharepoint.org/default.aspx