reference(s)

 There are many books dealing in one way or another with web technology.
  1. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan -- (amazon)
  2. CSS: The Definitive Guide by Eric Meyer -- (amazon)
  3. Professional Web 2.0 Programming (Wrox Professional Guides) by Eric van der Vlist, Danny Ayers, Erik Bruchez, Joe Fawcett, Alessandro Vernet -- (amazon)
  4. business model(s) -- www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
  5. Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL by Michael Schrenk -- amazon)
  6. The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws, by Dafydd Stuttard amd Marcus Pinto -- amazon)
  7. A. Eliëns, topical media & game development -- media.eliens.net