A brief history of the Web -- A new breed of applications : the rise of the Web -- Technological developments in a nutshell -- User participation and contribution : socialization of the Web -- Merging the streams : the arrival of "Web 2.0" -- A review of the technological stream -- Developments in Web technology -- Web applications of XML -- P2P -- Summary -- Enabling techniques and technologies -- Rich Internet applications -- APIs, WPCs, and their mash-ups -- A brief history of the Web -- A new breed of applications : the rise of the Web -- Technological developments in a nutshell -- User participation and contribution : socialization of the Web -- Merging the streams : the arrival of "Web 2.0" -- A review of the technological stream -- Developments in Web technology -- Web applications of XML -- P2P -- Summary -- Enabling techniques and technologies -- Rich Internet applications -- APIs, WPCs, and their mash-ups.