Web 2.0 Review Definitions

- User-generated content, also known as consumer generated media (CGM) or user-created content (UCC), refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by endusers.
- The Long Tail or long tail is a retailing concept describing the niche strategy of selling a large number of unique items in relatively small quantities, and it's usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities.
- In metacomunicating, WebOS and Web Operating System are terms that describe network services for internet scale distributed commuting.
- A folksonomy is a system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboration and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging.
- Web syndication is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary of the website's recently added content (for example, the latest news or forum posts). The term can also be used to describe other kinds of licensing website content so that other websites can use it.
- Mass collaboration is a form of collective action that occurs when large numbers of people work independently on a single project, often modular in its nature. Such projects typically take place on the internet using social software and computer-supported collaboration tools such as wiki technologies, which provide a potentially infinite hypertextual substrate within which the collaboration may be situated.
- Computer-supported collaboration (CSC) research focuses on technology that affects groups, organizations, communities and societies, e.g., voicemail and textchat.
- A web hosting service is a type of internet hosting web that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the world wide web.
- In software engineering, a web application is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network such as the internet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is hosted in a browser-controlled environment (e.g. a Java Applet) or coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.
- Social software encompasses a range of software systems that allow users to interact and share data. This computer-mediated communication has become very popular with social sites like Myspace and Facebook, media sites like Flickr and YouTube as well as commercial sites like Amazon.com and eBay. Many of these applications share characteristics like open APIs, service-oriented design and the ability to upload data and media. The terms Web 2.0 and (for large-business applications) Enterprise 2.0 are also used to describe this style of software.
- Video sharing is when one person shares a video clip with another or many other people. This is usually done over the internet. There are many websites that offer video sharing. Many people use theses sites to share videos they have made with their family and friends. But, sharing videos which are copyrighted, like television programs, without permission from those who own them might be illegal.
- A 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. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used to create collaborative websites, to power community websites, for personal note taking, in corporate intranets, and in knowledge management systems.
- A blog 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.
- A Mashup is a web application that combines data and/or functionality from more than one source.