Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, December 2006, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
Web 2.0: The Future of the Internet and Technology Economy and How Entrepreneurs, Investors, Executives & Consumers Can take Advantage, June 2002, by Dermot A. McCormack. Discusses the future of the internet and how investors, executives and consumers can take advantage of new technologies.
Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer, April 2006, by Justin Gehtland, Dion Almaer, and Ben Galbraith. Discusses DHTML, JavaScript, the xmlHttpRequest call, how to add Ajax to existing programs, designing new programs, the three layers of the Ajax framework, how to create rich clients, using visual effects, validation, and forms.
Professional Web 2.0 Programming, November 2006, by Eric van der Vlist, Danny Ayers, Erik Bruchez, Jow Fawcett, and Alessandro Vernet. Discusses Ajax, Ruby on Rails, service-oriented architecture, Web 2.0 architecture, and Web 2.0 technologies.
Mobile Web 2.0: The Innovator's Guide to Developing and Marketing Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Applications, August 2006, by Ajit Jaokar and TonyFish. Discusses Web 2.0 and Mobile Web 2.0, the seven principals of Mobile Web 2.0, IMS, WiMAX, revenue models, mobile content, user-generated content, multilingual mobile access, digital convergence, Ajax and mobile widgets, location-based services, and mobile search. A complete table of contents and sample chapters are available when you register at the publishers web site.
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, September 2005, by John Battelle. Discusses the database of intentions; who, what, when, where, why and how (much), search before Google, the Internet gets a new business model, Google 2000-2004: zero the 3 billion in five years, the search economy; search, privacy, government and evil, Google goes public, Google today, Google tomorrow, and the perfect search.
Check Dr. Harvey M. Deitel's review of The Search.