What on earth is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 carries a high profile and surrounding hype. Developers must surely be feeling the heat to quickly adopt the new second generation of dynamic, interactive and simple by design technologies.

Web 2.0 is the term pioneered by O’Reilly for new generation Web applications.Live.com, start.com, Google maps, Google Docs, YouTube, Flickr, and MySpace are few examples. Adaptation of this technology vector has changed the web application development approach and methodology significantly.AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript), RIA(Rich Internet Applications) and Web Services form the core components of Web 2.0applications.
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The Statistical Seismology Library (SSLib) is a collection of earthquake hypocentral catalogues and R functions to analyse the catalogues. The analyses include graphical data displays, fitting of point process models, estimation of fractal dimensions, and rou- tines to apply the M8 Algorithm to given datasets. The Statistical Seismology Library is written in the R language, and consist of a number of R packages. Each package has its own Users Manual that contains documentation for all functions within that package.
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In this tutorial we will examine the process of placing a Blender model into the Google Earth application. Google Earth provides satellite imagery depicting the entire earth and allows users to insert three-dimensional objects at specific latitudinal and longitudinal locations.
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Creating and Animating a Flying Logo In this tutorial, you’ll learn to create a flying logo for a fictitious company named Worldwide Designs. Using shapes, modifiers, lighting effects and Video Post, you produce an animated logo. Files for This Tutorial The files for this tutorial are in the \tutorials\worldwide_designs folder. Note: All the necessary files to do the tutorials can be found on the Tutorial Files CD that ships with 3ds Max 8. Before doing the tutorials, copy the \tutorials directory from the CD to your \3dsmax8 local installation.
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