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Vocabulary for Web 2.0
aggregation - gathering information from multiple web sites (Web 2.0: A Glossary)
aggregator - software or online service that collects RSS feeds (Web2 for Dev) e.g.
http://www.bloglines.com
avatar - graphic representation of a person online (Library Instruction Wiki)
blog - short for weblog, a term used to describe web sites that maintain an onging
chronicle of information, are updated frequently, have links to web sites, and
have content that ranges from personal to political, narrow focus to a broad
range of topics (Web2 for Dev) e.g. blogger and edublogs
creative commons** - has to do with the issue of copyright, a way to license your
content so people can share it (Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms and Tools)
Digg - social news site that allows you to vote for your favorite content (Glossary
of Web 2.0 Terms and Tools)
digital storytelling - using new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own
real-life stories (Wikipedia)
flickr** - a popular photo sharing site, where creativity, design, and sharing are
valued (Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms and Tools)
instant messaging - a communication service that enables you to create a kind of
private chat room to communicate in real time, text-based (Webopedia)
newsreader - a newsreader gathers the news from multiple blogs or news sites
using RSS, allowing readers to access all their news from a single web site or
program (Web 2.0: A Glossary)
Ning - a tool to create social networks and communities (Top 100 Tools Ning) e.g.
http://www.ning.com
podcast - media file that is distributed over the internet using syndication feeds
for playback on portable media players and personal computers (Web2 for Dev)
RSS - really simple syndication: a format for storing online information in a way
that makes that information readable by lots of different kinds of software. RSS is
used by news websites, weblogs and podcasting (Web 2.0: A Glossary)
social bookmarks - web-based service to share internet bookmarks; allows you to
put your bookmarks or favorites online e.g. del.icio.us and Kaboddle (Web2 for
Dev)
social networking - web sites that help people discover new friends or colleagues
by highlighting shared interests, skills, or geographic location (Web 2.0: A
Glossary); a broad term for a many-to-many approach to online interactions
(Library Instruction Wiki) e.g. MySpace, Facebook
Social software - type of woftware or web service that allows people to
communicate and collaborate while using the application (Web2 for Dev) e.g.
email, blogs, IM
tag - keywords that describe the content of a web site, bookmark, photo, or blog
post (Web 2.0: A Glossary)
tag cloud - visual depiction (weighted list) of user-generated tags (Wikipedia)
3D virtual environments like Second Life - internet based virtual world video game
(Wikipedia)
twitter - like a "personal IM account that can be shared with everyone" (Twitter
explained for librarians); micro-blogging tool (Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms and
Tools)
vlogging - video blogging (Wikipedia)
vodcasting - video podcasting (Wikipedia)
web 2.0 - the read/write web; the second generation of web-based services and
tools which make content creation on the web easier and more accessible to a
wide variety of users (Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts: Web 2.0 Tools You Can Use)
webcast - sends audio and/or video live over the internet (Web2 for Dev)
widget - used in social networking sites; look like rectangles; sit in sidebar;
provides content from other web locations (Library Instruction Wiki)
wiki - a web site that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, also
allows for linking among any number of pages (Web2 for Dev)