Monday, February 8, 2010

Web 2.0 Terms


User-generated content - Public media content that is created by the users of whatever media medium is being used.

Long Tail - a retail technique that involves selling a large amount of unique items in small amounts.

Network as platform - a cost-effective technique where companies use networks to integrate interactions for the purpose of increasing value and growth

Folksonomy - classifying content from the practice of creating and managing tags in order to categorize the content

Syndication - when website material is made available to other sites. This includes making web feeds to help summarize what is currently on a site.

Mass collaboration - when a large number of people work individually on one project and when the process is mediated by the content being created.

Computer-supported collaboration - is technology that effects groups, organizations, communities, and societies. Expansion of the consumer market allowed more people to connect to the internet, and be effected by this technology.

Social software - a range of software systems that allow users to interact and share certain things such as data. Ex. Facebook, MySpace

Mashup - a web application that combines different aspects of the web from different sources, to make something new.

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