sv_Glossary+terms

GLOSSARY TERMS

 * 1) **aggregator**: 1. A web service that uses an API or scrapping to pull in data from across the web; 2. A product that repackages and refocuses content ostensibly to improve user experience; 3. The folks who “borrow” and refactor your content and wrap Adsense around it. SOURCE: [|HowToSplitAnAtom.com]
 * 2) **API**: An application programming interface (API) is a set of functions, procedures, methods or classes that an operating system, library or service provides to support requests made by computer programs. SOURCE: [|Wikipedia]
 * 3) **collective intelligence**: a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals. Collective intelligence appears in a wide variety of forms of consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans, and computer networks. The study of collective intelligence may properly be considered a subfield of sociology, of business, of computer science, of mass communications and of mass behavior—a field that studies collective behavior from the level of quarks to the level of bacterial, plant, animal, and human societies. SOURCE: [|Wikipedia]
 * 4) **creative commons**: a licensing setup which allows creators to release works on the Internet under specific terms governing their attribution, commercialization, and derivation. SOURCE: [|swantower.com]
 * 5) **folksonomy**: (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively //Folksonomy// describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging.[1] In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is generated not only by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary.[2] //Folksonomy// (from //folk// + //taxonomy//) is a user-generated taxonomy, creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. SOURCE: [|Wikipedia]
 * 6) **mash-up**: The term mash-up refers to a new breed of Web-based applications created by hackers and programmers (typically on a volunteer basis) to mix at least two different services from disparate, and even competing, Web sites. A mash-up, for example, could overlay traffic data from one source on the Internet over maps from Yahoo, Microsoft, Google or any content provider. The term mash-up comes from the hip-hop music practice of mixing two or more songs. SOURCE: [|asu.longcreative.com]
 * 7) **RSS**: (Rich Site Summary or RDF Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication) is commonly used protocol for syndication and sharing of content, originally developed to facilitate the syndication of news articles, now widely used to share the contents of blogs. RSS is an XML-based summary of a web site, usually used for syndication and other kinds of content-sharing. There are RSS “feeds” which are sources of RSS information about web sites, and RSS “readers” which read RSS feeds and display their content to users. SOURCE: [|duranos.com]
 * 8) **social bookmarking**: a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called //social tagging//, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content". SOURCE: [|Wikipedia]
 * 9) **syndication** — Making information on a website available (preferrably in digest form) for a wide range of uses, prime examples of which are RSS and Atom feeds. Syndication is a great way of making news updates, blog entries and podcasts immediately available to a Web audience. SOURCE: [|BrownBatteryStudios.com]
 * 10) **tag**: a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system. On a website in which many users tag many items, this collection of tags becomes a folksonomy. SOURCE: [|Wikipedia]