For the 5th entry in my blog series on Web 2.0 Technology Topics, I turn to web feed readers. Feed readers are software that resides either on your personal computer (Mac, Windows, Linux) or on a web server and allow you to collect content from a variety of different websites into one single place.

Building on my previous article about Blog Technologies, the next web 2.0 technology to introduce is a web feed. A web feed is a data format used for providing readers with frequently updated content. Let's say, for example, we wanted to add a new feature to the Newton PTO Council website which collected news and announcements from all 21 Newton school PTOs so that parents had one place where they could read it.

One of the most powerful technologies in the Web 2.0 arsenal isn't so much a technology as it is a style of communication. I'm referring to a blog, which derives it name from the combination of the words web log, meaning a website where entries are written and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. You can learn from links at the end of this article, but here I'll focus on understanding backend technology.

I thought it would be appropriate to start my series of Web 2.0 Technology Topics with the term Web 2.0 itself.

I recently started writing a column for the European Newsletter of The Concours Group (updated: now part of nGenera). I'll use my blog here as a place to post these articles and make them available to others.
The purpose of the postings listed below is to build some common vocabulary in fairly simple "business terms". These articles will intentionally be short and written for non-techies. Here's an initial list of Web 2.0 technology topics that I plan to cover (or already have). As articles are written, the topics here will link to them.