Heiden-definitions

**Wikis-**A website that anyone can sign up for that with access can edit what other users write, so it becomes a collaborative content management system. **Podcasting-**Is like RSS, but instead of reading you are listening to what you determine and can be done with an iPod or online. **Collaboration-**Is when a group of individuals work together on a common purpose. **Sharing-**Can be done thru e-mail, websites, blogs, wikis, etc. in terms of information. **User-centered-** Is all about creating a website or another application to make it user friendly. **Aggregators-**They do the work of updating websites without the extra time and effort. **Convergence-**The coming together of two or more technologies in a single device. **Web Standards-**Are carefully designed to deliver the most benefits to the largest audience of web users while ensuring the long-term viability.
 * Web 2.0**-A second generation of web applications that foster shareable content and social networking, which includes applications such as: wikis, blogs, social networking sites, etc.
 * RSS- **RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" or “Rich Site Summary.” It is a way to easily distribute a list of headlines, updated notices, and sometimes content to a wide number of people for their favorite websites for the recent changes.
 * SOAP- ** SOAP stands for “Simple Object Access Protocol,” which is a way for a program running in one kind of operating system to communicate with a program in the same or another kind of an operating system by using the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( [|HTTP] )and its Extensible Markup Language ( [|XML] ) as the mechanisms for information exchange.