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==**WEB 2.0: Using the web as a platform to interact, participate, collaborate, share, and discuss ideas. Many Web 2.0 applications are designed so users create a profile to identify and connect with other users who have similar interests.**==

The use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. [|Anvil Media]

Blogging**- is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
 * __Web 2.0 Vocabulary__


 * Tweets**- A micro-blog post on the Twitter social network site, or the act of posting on it. Each post is referred to as a tweet, and the act of sending a tweet is referred to as tweeting.


 * Social Networking**- focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g., who share interests and/or activities. A social network service essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services.


 * Podcast**- a series of digital media files (either audio or video ) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication


 * Wiki**- is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor


 * Web Widget**- is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML -based web page by an end user without requiring additional <span class="wiki_link_ext">compilation


 * RSS**- "Really Simple Syndication" is a family of <span class="wiki_link_ext">web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as <span class="wiki_link_ext">blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format


 * Tag**- is a non-hierarchical <span class="wiki_link_ext">keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an <span class="wiki_link_ext">internet bookmark, digital image, or <span class="wiki_link_ext">computer file ). This kind of <span class="wiki_link_ext">metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system.


 * Social Bookmarking**- is a method for <span class="wiki_link_ext">Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage <span class="wiki_link_ext">bookmarks of web resources. Unlike <span class="wiki_link_ext">file sharing, the //resources// themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that //reference// them.


 * Folksonomy-** is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorizecontent; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging

(Definitions from Wikipedia, Feb 6, 2010)

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