The popularity of social networking websites is fast spreading like wildfire across the Internet. These websites allow their members to live in a carefree virtual world where they can interact with other members without any obligations. Apart from finding friends, these sites are now used as Internet marketing tools - yes, social networking websites can help increase website traffic by sending a massive amount of traffic to a website thereby improving its search engine rankings.

These websites are powered by the latest sophisticated technologies like AJAX, that allow members - apart from interacting with other members - to customize page backgrounds, work with unique templates, post music/videos, share pictures, store documents and generally have a ball of a virtual time.

C++ Ajax Frameworks

• Wt : Wt (pronounce wit-ty), is a C++ library to develop web applications. The API is widget-centric, and inspired by existing C++ Graphical User Interface APIs. To the developer, it offers complete abstraction of any web-specific implementation details.

Coldfusion Ajax Frameworks

Web 2.0 defines a newer incarnation of the World Wide Web typified by the transition from the typical website hosting HTML/XHTML pages, to a platform that provides a point of presence (sometimes known as a Web portal), from which any of the following interactions may occur.

Web 2.0 is the philosophy of mutually maximizing collective intelligence and benefit for each participant by formalized and dynamic information sharing and creation.

While large scale social sites like Flickr, Digg, Youtube and Myspace have predominated the web-o-sphere over the past few years there still is a need for narrow content verticals in this arena. This list will give you links to 40 open source resources to get you started building your own social bookmarking, networking, filesharing or search application. The following is a list of what I consider the be the best open source social software that I’ve found over the past year.

Please let me know through email or a comment if you know of any other great social bookmarking, network, filesharing or search applications, and I’ll be glad to post them. Also special thanks to all of the folks who produced all of this great free software. All descriptions below are taken from the developers of the software.

Adotube, the online video advertising company, is announcing the Beta launch of their contextual advertising program. They have been beta testing this for a few weeks now and can say that it’s the most innovative program I have seen so far in the video advertising space.

Below is a demo video from Adotube showing how it works but it’s very simple in concept.