This micro-content can be combined with other data and services, e. g., tags of Flickr photos can be used to show the location in Google Maps. In difference to traditional Web-services, the Web 2.0 approach is characterized by pragmatic solutions and lightweight formats.
Additionally, existing Web 2.0 services often disseminate their functionality by plug-in modular components, so called
widgets . This allows integrating the service on a given Web-site by adding only several lines of code.