sw_glossary


 * Glossary:**
 * 1) Collective Intelligence: The success of a particular application/website becomes greater the more and more people use the application/site. One article compared it to the synapses of the brain that are strengthened through repetitive use.
 * 2) Tagging: Once again using the brain analogy, just as the brain may see something as having mutliple lables (coffee is strong, black, dark, etc.) tagging places multiple lables on a single picture or entry so that it can be accessed from multiple areas instead of just one playing upon the concpets of the collective intelligence of all users.
 * 3) Folksonomy: Where the users and creators create names/tags for the information presented on different sites as opposed to their being a group of set vocabulary decided upon by experts only. This is tied in very closely with tagging as a way for the everday user to be able to access information using mutliple means. Wikipedia described this as a way to go against the standard search engines.
 * 4) RSS: A "news aggregator" that creates the ability to not just link to a page but subscribe to it so that every time the page is updated, the user is notified of these changes/updates.
 * 5) NING: The online creation of social networks so that members with common interests can create their own social network based on these very common interests.
 * 6) Creative Commons: The extent to which a piece of originally created materials is open to the use of others for legal sharing. The creators of the original work can specifiy which rights they retain in regards to the copyright legality of their works.
 * 7) Mash-up: A digital media file which recreates or combines any amount of previously existing works to make a completely new piece or file.
 * 8) Digital Native: Someone who has lived all of their life with computers and like technology.
 * 9) Digital Immigrant: Someone who has not grown up with technology but has assimilated to the new world of technology yet still retains many of the old terms common to their way of doing things as opposed to the technological language used by digital natives.
 * 10) Widget: interactive items on the computer's screen that users can access and use