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English 12a
Digital Vocab List #1: Vocabulary for Web 2.0
Source: http://rplsschoollibrarians.wikispaces.com/Vocabulary+for+Web+2.0
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
digital storytelling - using new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own real-life stories (Wikipedia)
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)
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); microblogging tool (Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms and Tools)
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)
Digital Vocab List #2 (from Digital A-Z Jargon Guide)
Banner: A long, horizontal, online advert usually found running across the top of commercial websites,
commonly referred to as a 468x60.
Contextual advertising
Advertising that is targeted to the content on the Web page being viewed by a user at that specific time.
Cookie: A small text file on the user’s PC that identifies the user’s browser and hence, users are ‘recognised’
when they
Domain Name: The unique name of an internet site e.g. www.bluecubeinteractive.com.
Hit
Also known as page hit, is the retrieval of any file from a web server, includes web pages and all associated
image files, i.e. every file and image on a website will record a hit. This term is commonly used by many as a
measure of success for website traffic. Bluecube Interactive regards this as a meaningless metric for measuring
site traffic, unique visitors and page impressions are more appropriate variables to use.
Homepage: The main entrance page of a website.
HTML
Stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language, which is the set of commands used by web browsers to interpret and
display page content to users.
Hyperlink: Highlighted words or images that take you to another section within the same document or retrieves
a different document.
IP address: The numerical internet address assigned to each computer on a network so that it can be
distinguished from other computers. Expressed as four groups of numbers separated by dots.
Pop – up: An online advert that ‘pops up’ in a window over the top of a web page. See also interruptive formats.
Traffic: The number of visitors who visit a website.
URL: (Uniform Resource Locator) Technical term used to refer to the web address of a particular website. For
example www.lovemynewpurse.com.
Web 2.0: Is a phrase used to describe the growth in websites where the content is generated by end users
rather than by the site owner, e.g. Bebo, Facebook, YouTube etc...
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