HappyTutors.com is a free Web2.0 community for tutors, teachers, instructors, coaches, as well as students, tutees and parents, including free Tutor Listing Service, Tutor Searching Service, Online HappyTutors Forum, Used Book Market and HappyTutors Blog.  It’s a really nice website with a fresh design, user-friendly layout, navigation and search function.

HappyTutors.com Mission Statement
- Promote Lifelong Learning & Teaching
- Connect Tutors, Students & Parents Worldwide

HappyTutors.com Services
- Free listing service for tutors, teachers, instructors, coaches, students and parents
- Search tutors/tutees/students for free
- Sell / buy used books 

What makes HappyTutors.com stand out from other tutoring listing websites is that HappyTutors.com is offering 100% free Web2.0 service. Tutors, students and parents can participate in the Online Forum and HappyTutors Blog to share their opinions and experience.

Explorer highly recommends you take a look at HappyTutors.com. You might be able to find a blogging tutor or become a tutor to help others make money blogging

Josh Catone at ReadWriteWeb had a post about Web 3.0 Through The Ages. I’ve posted What’s Web 3.0a few days ago and am still very interested in this topic. I made a comment on Josh Catone’s post about what’s Web 3.0 experience for a regular Internet user. Here I would like to share with my readers too:

Marketers, developers, tech geeks have different definition/mind map/mission statement/…about Web 1.0-2.0-3.0

Here is from a regular Internet user’s experience point of view:

• Web 1.0 – Surfing websites looking for info
• Web 2.0 – Participating in different Social networking websites such as blogs, Facebook, Myspace….etc
• Web 3.0 – No big difference between professional programmer, geeks, regular consumers… in terms of their web experience. More freedom, personalization…whatsoever they want to do on the net for their personal or business needs…..

What’s your expectation for Web 3.0 ?

I’ve seen many discussions about Semantic Web on the blogosphere this year and didn’t really understand what is Semantic Web. As usually, I did a Google search and the first link showed up was from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

” The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. It derives from W3C director Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.”

On the left is a logo owned by W3C for Semantic Web. ” The three sides of the cube dig at the triplet in RDF. The peeled lid is meant to invite people to open their data to the Semantic Web.”

How wonderful it is to be able to witness the rapid development of the Internet technologies?

Here is another Photoshop tutorial video that I found on YouTube. The difference of this one from the previous two video is that the author provided the audio instruction, which is a little bit easier to understand. You can try to create a Web 2.0 sytle logo for your own blog now

If you are a small business entrepreneur, most likely you will have to undertake different roles at the same time – CEO, accountant, designer, marketing VP, secretary,…etc. An eye-catching logo for your business or blogd is a key for the future success. Web 2.0 is a hot topic nowadays. Do you know how to create a Web 2.0 style logo? I did a lot search lately and found two Photoshop tutorial video on YouTube.

Last week I had a post about What’s Web 2.0? Today I found an interesting vedio at YouTube which provides a clearer view about Web 2.0. Hope you enjoy it

If you like surfing the Internet, you probably have heard about Web 2.0

Based on Wikipedia –  Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a perceived second-generation of Web-based services – such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users.

     Web 1.0                                                   Web 2.0
DoubleClick                                       –> Google AdSense
Ofoto                                                 –> Flickr
Akamai                                            –> BitTorrent
mp3.com                                          –> Napster
Britannica Online                            –> Wikipedia
personal websites                           –> blogging
evite                                                  –> upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation               –> search engine optimization
page views                                        –> cost per click
screen scraping                                –> web services
publishing                                         –> participation
content management systems      –> wikis
directories (taxonomy)                  –> tagging (“folksonomy”)
stickiness                                         –> syndication