Web 2.0 is usually used to describe the second generation of services on the Internet that let people work together and share information. Public web service APIs, Ajax, and web syndication were all created in the late 1990s, and they are often used in Web 2.0 applications. They often allow for mass publishing (web-based social software) (web-based social software). This could mean blogs and wikis.
SayOutLoud is a new Web 2.0 app that just came out recently. SayOutLoud is a discussion board site with a unique and interesting twist. It's not a discussion system you download and put on your site. Instead, it's a place where anyone can go to talk about anything. Instead of forums and threads, it uses tags to organize content. The system has very few features and is set up so that anyone can join and start a conversation.
A tag is a keyword that acts like a subject or category. Websites and other things on the Internet are put in order by keywords. Each user "tags" a website or image with his or her own unique tag. Tags can be used to identify an image or webpage in more than one way. Then, pages and images that have the same tags are linked together, and users can use the tag to find other pages and images that are similar.
When you post your story to say out loud, it tells a number of other Web 2.0 services about it, like Del.icio.us and Technorati. Because these systems also support tags, hundreds of people who are following the tag(s) you posted to will see your post right away. In minutes, you can have the experts read out loud what you had to say.
SayOutLoud also has a typical discussion board with the ability to search for posts and users, manage your profile, and start new threads. The biggest difference, though, is that everything is organized with folksonomy, so you can search for users and threads by tag. Because of this, it's easy for me to find people with similar interests and keep up with what they're talking about by searching for users with a certain interest tag. When I type "AJAX," a list of members who are interested in Ajax comes up. The same goes for threads. You can also look at a "tag cloud" to find new and popular conversations.
