There are numerous sites that can be accessed on the Internet that perform a Web 2.0 function, some of the best known ones that provide various services for publishing content and providing services are:
HubPages
HubPages is a free web hosting site where you can create and publish articles on practically any subject you like. You can also generate income from the royalties earned by placing a range of affiliate adverts on the site using some of the best known Internet companies such as Google, Amazon and eBay.
Click on this link to find out more about HubPages
Below is a list of some of my Hubs which will give you an idea of the sort of subjects you can write about. This is a great way to support an existing blog, website or business venture. You can create back links and drive traffic to your other online publications for free, not forgetting the potential to actually earn money from a respected and well known Internet presence.
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These are a few of the hubs that I have written in support of this blog and for providing information on computing in general. If you have Google toolbar loaded you will be able to see that all of these hubs have achieved a reasonable page rank, but what you may not realise is how quickly this was done using the HubPages platform.
Squidoo
Squidoo provides a very similar service to HubPages where they offer free hosting and publishing of single page websites that you can create and share the revenue from. In some ways Squidoo is more flexible and less restrictive than HubPages, there are certainly more modules available to include in the pages and less restrictions on what images and number of links to other domains you can include. For example you can include banners of certain types from your own affiliate relationships as well as using the inbuilt affiliate options.
You can find out more about Squidoo via this link.
DevHub
DevHub is another Web 2.0 service along the lines of both Squido and HubPages with the difference that you can actually build a multi-page website under the domain you create that is more akin to a standard static multi-page website that you would typically create with the aid of a web designer.
Further examples of Web 2.0 services:
- YouTube – for video upload and publication
- last.fm - for custom streaming of music stations and for sharing your favorite music
- flickr – for storing and sharing digital photographs
- Stumble, Digg, Reddit etc. – for bookmarking and sharing your favorite Internet sites
- Skype - VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) allows you to talk, share files, video conference over the Internet
- Wikipedia – free multilingual online encyclopedia
- Feedburner – for sharing and offering subscriptions for your RSS feeds
- GMail – free online email service
- Facebook and LinkedIn – for staying in touch and sharing information with friends relatives etc. LinkedIn is the professional business option which provides the same facility for professionals, workers and people in business
There are of course many other examples of Web 2.0 services and you can access a comprehensive Web 2.0 listing via this link.
