Web 2.0 toolbar: Providing web 2.0 services for existence web pages

[[abstract]]Since the term "Web 2.0" appears, a new generation of Web is coming. There are many technical articles referring to how to design a Web 2.0 website. However, the traditional Web 1.0 websites are still multitudinous currently. The developers of the traditional Web 1.0 website may not have adequate techniques to reconstruct the websites into Web 2.0 timely. Rebuilding a website often takes tremendous efforts. A simple and effective strategy to upgrade the websites is essential. The paper attempts to provide a flexible framework, Web 2.0 Toolbar, to upgrade websites from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. The Web 2.0 Toolbar combines the original Web 1.0 web page and additional Web 2.0 information together on the fly. Therefore, the website developers need not to rewrite their websites, and the users will be able to experience additional Web 2.0 functions. In the paper, we have implemented tag, and comment functionalities of Web 2.0. © 2008 IEEE