Being Web 2.0…for you

At Lycos Webhosting, we are well placed as a web hosting provider to perceive and understand the changes transforming the web under the concepts and optic of the “Web 2.0” movement…but what does this mean for a web hosting company like us, especially when thinking about our customers like you?

Online communities, user generated content, content sharing services, collaborative platforms, open source models, social networking…Indeed, the term “Web 2.0” is a convenient way to characterize a whole set of different technologies and services appeared gradually these last years and pushing in a similar direction: they give internet users more and more easiness and power to create, share, meet, collaborate and work online with services that are friendly to understand and to use.

But in this story that concerns you as an Internet users, where is your place as a website creator? And how can your website fit in this picture? That is exactly the question and the point where we think Lycos Webhosting has a particular role to play on the web 2.0 scene and to support our users in being all time state of the art.

As a web hosting service, rather than creating web 2.0 services for our own use, we put our efforts in helping you building these services for yourself, for your website and for your visitors. For instance, we were one of the first to provide our customers with easy to install communication modules on their website (chat, forum,blogs, wikis) – the Lycos OnceClickSite solution. Recently, with our Toolbar builder, we were also one of the first to enable our customers to communicate with their website visitors through a personal toolbar they can fully customize for their website.

To sum up; Web 2.0 for Lycos Webhosting means helping you to be part of that scene: in a few clicks and without the need of being a computing expert; with tools built by us or through collaboration with the open source community. In the future, we will keep working on creating easy solutions to make your website even more interactive, dynamic and involving for your users. Meet you there!

Interesting links

Jubii
Lycos Toolbar builder