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One of the visible traits in web 2.0 rich websites are either their logo, domain name or images i.e. they have some reflection better understood as mirror reflections or shadows at bottom (most of them having written 'Beta' alongside or superscript). This something like I did with IndianWeb2.com logo and image of a flower below; This is better known as "Web 2.0 Style" Images and Fonts and to make a normal images or a text into this web2-style images/ text, tutorials are available as how to add reflections/ make mirror images with or without Adobe Photoshop. TOOLS - There are some tools to get Web20 style images in an instant and one of my favorite is - Reflectomatic, here you just give a URL of image and it will make a reflection to it just like web20 image/ logo, you can even adjust opacity, height of reflection and scale image. Others tools/ web20 logo creator are; - Web2.0 Logo Creator by ALex P - Web 2.0 Stylr - Web2.0 Logo Creator - Web2.0 text/ Logo generator USING ADOBE PHOTOSHOP - Adobe Photoshop can also be handy in making Web20-style images and texts without much hassle, core part is making duplicate of image/ text and flip it vertically and ...

In IndianWeb2.com's previous post of Visualize Your Web, Bookmarks, Tags and Blogosphere, I have posted about two very good example of web 2.0/ mashups of del.icio.us tags and blogosphere by Sixpli and Twingly.com respectively. Now here are some more and bunch of resources, tools and websites dealing with mashing up with visual web 2.0, visual web semantics mashups sites, apps and tools etc. So here is the list - Walk2Web - Walk2Web is a visualization tool that shows graphical link structure of URL entered and sites linked to it and let you surf these sites as if you are walking along these linked sites and at the same you can see screenshot of these sites. Websites as Graph - It makes a Graph of Websites by providing URL of website which then convert the HTML code of any webpage into Tree/ Nodes like graph structure where colors represent various tags of webpage source code. Scriptaculous - script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your websites and web applications for e.g. - Drag and Drop AJAX box, Slide in/out, Autocompleting AJAX text fields, Sortable elements w/AJAX callback, Combination Effects Demo. One of my favorite and best for Web 2.0 ...

A lot of online as well as desktop tools has been developed in Visual Web arena. Manipulate and discovering your own tags in bookmarked or tagged items might look awful thus making this complexity more simple in form of visualized enviornment to find, relate or even play with these visual output. Sixpli Alfa lets visualize bookmarked tags in a del.icio.us account and let explore them with their relations to each other, it also creates output for more than one account by finding common tags with. With this flash based tool users can play with visualization options such as elastic net 2D, elastic net 3D and circle 2D. Sixpli.com is still in alfa phase and not open to all users though one can ask them for being alfa testers via e-mail at sixpli@sixpli.com. See snapshots below. Another one under same stream of visualizing web is Primelabs.com's - Twingly, that visualize the global blog activity in real time, this tool comes as windows screensaver. Twinlgy screensaver visualize the globe as dynamic 3D view of earth and blog posts across the globe as bars standing on continents. Its usability is quite like RSS reader where in this case you are not limited to your choice ...

Microformats - as pronounced this isn't any Biotechnological word nor its a new language but one among simple web standards that already being adopted by many web organization/ sites. If some of you has done few things on XML, XHTML, RSS or even CSS it's easiest thing you can learn in a day (or even less). Microformats are set of simple open data formats built upon existing standards that is being adopted widely these days. Its a design principles of formats which is - designed for humans first and machines second, one of the microformats principles along with modularity, embeddability and to some extent portability of information among sources using it. One of the formats that are popular among SEOs / Webmasters or Designers are 'rel' tag which specifies the relevance or relationship to hyperlink. The rel-tag are used for Google algorithm purpose i.e rel="nofollow" or "follow", an attribute to tell search bots not to follow or to follow the link its embodied in respectively. Technorati is among key players of Microformats in initial stage, that derived from rel="tag" attribute widely seen and used by millions of bloggers worldwide. [Example - <a xhref="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" rel="tag">tech</a> ] Microformats are revolutionizing the Web 2.0 standards for better structured ...