Have you been meaning to work on your 2nd or 3rd language but never get around to it? No more excuses people. There’s a new site just in beta that can help you learn French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese or Brazilian Portuguese, as well as many others. Check out Mango. C’est tres web 2.0!

We like to think of ourselves as a green business. We do our best to lessen our carbon footprint by buying green products, cutting our paper use to a minimum, and working virtually rather than requiring our staff to commute to work as well as a load of other things. We also like to support public efforts to get the word out about how important individual action can be.

But enough about us. We are proud to release an new online community that can help you get greener in the way you work, live and play.
Greeningyou.com is dedicated to getting the world greener 1 person at a time. Sure you can see what the big companies are doing but you’ll be amazed at how easy it is to make your onw impact on the world.

Greeningu reports new events that affect our world and they also give tips on how you can decrease your own carbon footprint, The site is built on the Joomla Community platform, with a little AJAX and Flash thrown into add that Web 2.0 flavor everybody’s asking for these days.. Although the site’s just taken off, they’re adding content regularly and plan to add more blogs, and online store for green products and a wiki based directory of green product suppliers and solutions.

So, what are you waiting for, go green u!

Web 2.0 is SO much more than shiny buttons, quirky names and gradients. Here are the first in a series of links that demonstrate where the web is going and how this next generation of sites will change the way you work.

ZOHO
ZOHO gives you all the tools that MS Office does without a lot of the bugs, expense and hassle of the “Evil Empire”. It’s also got a lot of tools that Office doesn’t offer, like Wikis, chat, website monitoring, polls, CRM and web meetings.

Rotaboard
Organizing shift schedules, tracking hours and among a large staff can be any admin’s nightmare. What if you could put it all in one handy dandy location and easily see schedules, payables and contact info all in one place?

Pulling together a remote team to work on a project? There are several options for remote collaboration, each with their own spin on workflow. Take a look and see which flavor works for you.
Huddle
Dabble
Thinkature
Zimbra

It’s not all work and no play of course.
Make my People Sing!
Delicious Monster
Boomj
Pixelmator

A lot of people are wondering this and we get lots of calls asking us if we can get it yet.

Bottom line is that the web is an ever-evolving place. Lately there’s been a design trend towards less text, more white space and easy to use navigation. Some call it the Web 2.0 look. But that’s not all there is to Web 2.0. It’s about using the web in a more organized way. Some call it the “Semantic Web” (something that in itself needs a definition.) An essential part of Web 2.0 is harnessing collective intelligence using things like rss feeds and other ways of aggregating information to deliver you what you want to know without the other 12.5 billion websites that can clog up your search for information. A classic example of this are feed aggregators that pull information from search engines, news articles and blogs and categorize it just for you. Technologies like Actionscript and Ajax can help make this data easily digestible.

Another example is services that allow you to use the web as your “virtual computer” making where and how you access it much less important. Your data and tools live on-line and you can use them with any computer you happen to have on hand. These services can change the way we use the web and the flexibility with which we work.
Want to know more? Here are some good resources:

Tim O’Reilly’s take on Web 2.0 (after all, it’s his idea…)
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1

Semantic Web.org
http://www.semanticweb.org/

Scientific American on the Semantic Web of the future
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21

Find out if your site is web 2.0 (tongue in cheek)
http://web2.0validator.com/

Web 2.0 Security Issues
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132153-page,5-c,onlinesecurity/article.html