The Web browsers are important to users and businesses all over the world. Changes on the Web landscape can affect many people and many businesses. Changes made to the core functionality of Web browsers can have dramatic effects for parties involved. Why are we saying this? The answer is JavaScript and its future as a Web programming language. Once upon a time JavaScript was a technology embraced by few, but today it is a programming environment powering, at least partly, much of the modern Web, as we know it, and almost all of the Web 2.0 flavored Web services. Web businesses all over the world rely on JavaScript to make their technology work.

Known phenomenon in sports, entertainment, politics and businesses is the comeback. Talking about comeback in programming language sounds strange, but can also be true. JavaScript is a programming language that for many years added spice to Web pages, but not regarded as a programming language to develop serious applications. This is dramatically changed.

Virtual world turned into the real world equivalence. The World Wide Web is becoming local and perhaps more so than global and the global is coming near our lives. Satellite images of every rock, plant and house on the earth is within a reach. The biggest hurdle is if your connection is fast enough to download the streaming images.

Recently we have been taking a close look at the search engine industry. We have been taking a look at what is left of the "independent" search engines that were many some years ago and if there are any new players in the industry. It is staggering to browse through resource after resource and discover how few are left and how colored the entire Web search industry is with the major three search engines.

Social bookmarking is the word of today. Social bookmarking services can be counted in the hundreds. The services differ from site to site, but the basic concept of social bookmarking is behind them all. Social bookmarking services are attracting millions of Web users from all over the world. People tag their favorite Web pages, or their own, and tell other Web users about them. Clever webmasters and Internet marketers can start their own social bookmarking service within few minutes and we are going to tell you how.

The old Web as we know it has some very large players that have control over the majority of information people are looking for. The search engines control a lot of things people search for and look at. This control was, and currently is, taking the bite out of new Web businesses, new Web services and mom-and-pops businesses.

The hallmark of Web 2.0 is in many ways the social bookmarking Web services. Social bookmarking is bringing the editorial and ranking power to the readers and away from mainstream search engines and portals. Social bookmarking Web services are many and they seem to grow at Web speed.

Social networking is a concept that has been getting a foothold on the Web. Social networking Web sites are often categorized as Web 2.0. Social bookmarking services are a part of a concept called social networking and it has become very popular among Web users. The most famous is del.icio.us recently acquired by Yahoo.

The Web community has highlighted the latest buzzword, "Web 2.0", and it seems everybody is talking about Web 2.0. Many say it is nothing new while others say it will change the Web as we know it. No matter what is being said the idea of Web 2.0 is here and has taken a form that can not be ruled out. Web 2.0 represents a new technology that is, hopefully, the promise of better and faster Web services and Web applications.

Web enthusiasts love new terms. They come out of the blue and all of a sudden everyone is talking about a new term. Those terms are named by many as "buzzwords". The latest buzzword is "Web 2.0". Here comes the funny part. It seems everyone has an opinion on what Web 2.0 is and some Web services are calling themselves Web 2.0 services even though their service started long before Web 2.0 became a term.

The trend is social networking, collaboration and sharing. The concept is Web 2.0 and the technology is AJAX. Simple bookmarks are becoming del.icio.us and tagged. Photos are snapped up by mobile cameras and shared immediately on the Web. Bloggers are influencing every aspect of business and entertainment. The new encyclopedia of the Web is Wiki where everyone can add and edit the world's information kept within our brains and libraries.

Since the World Wide Web became accessible worldwide there have been continuous attempts made to categorize the Web. Yahoo did a good job in the beginning. Then the World Wide Web grew and it became too large to categorize. Thousands of link directories and search engines later we are still trying to categorize the World Wide Web. The latest trend is to get people to help categorize the Web.

The Internet bubble burst in the year 2000. The promise of a new medium for the entire globe was in the air, but companies didn't know how to cash in on it. They now know how to cash in on it, with text ads and Web services.

One of the Web's standard for shopping are the shopping carts. Buyers click product links and add the products to their shopping cart and once finished they go to checkout. The idea is similar to going into a brick and mortar shop and place things into the shopping cart and then drive it to the counter. The difference with online shopping carts is the products you order are numbers or names instead of actual products.

The Web is more exciting than it ever was. The moment you got your dial-up to connect to the Internet was exciting, but it is almost as exciting to watch the constant improvements and new technologies taking place on the Web today. The vision and the promise of the Web, as we saw it ten years ago, are being revealed.

Ever since the World Wide Web became accessible for all, the multiplicity effect has been in full play. New technology, software and Web services are cloned and copied until the Web is swamped. A good example is the first real link directory, Yahoo. Today the Web has thousands of link directories many of whom are larger than the Yahoo directory ever was.

Alexa is announcing a new service allowing webmasters and programmers access to its database of 5 billion Web pages for a modest fee. Those interested can create search scripts and software that mines the database.

One of the Internet's biggest attractions is the opportunity to interact with one another and to interact with databases and software applications. The first obstacle of Internet interactivity was the speed of connections. The Internet's first years were colored with people using dial-up connections.

The AJAX technology is starting to spur out new Web services. Referred by many as Web 2.0 the AJAX applications are hosted applications used with your Web browser. The AJAX technology is helping developers to create more exciting Web software that offer more and faster interactivity for the user.

Since Netscape introduced RSS (Really Simple Synchronization) XML (Extensive Markup Language) functionality in its browser 7 years ago it has gained huge popularity in the Web community. XML has turned into a WWW standard for exchanging information. It looks like all Web sites are using XML in one way or the other, by getting information to publish or providing information to publish elsewhere. New software has been developed to retrieve information with XML and publish it to users desktops.

Online merchants whether they are selling few or many products need shopping carts. Shopping carts are normally database driven and provide the front end for the shopper. Shopping carts take care of the ordering process and the software delivers orders to the merchant. Shopping carts can be simple or complex, all depending on the merchant needs.