Web 2.0, the Glossary
Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory) web and social web) refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.[1]
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Accessibility
Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.
ActiveX
ActiveX is a deprecated software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web.
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a discontinuedexcept in China, where it continues to be used, as well as Harman for enterprise users.
Ajax (programming)
Ajax (also AJAX; short for "'''A'''synchronous '''J'''avaScript and '''X'''ML" or "Asynchronous JavaScript transfer (x-fer)") is a set of web development techniques that uses various web technologies on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. Web 2.0 and Ajax (programming) are web 2.0 neologisms.
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Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
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American Library Association
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.
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Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen (born c. 1960Saracevic, Alan T. (15 October 2006). San Francisco Chronicle ("Age: 46")) is a British-American entrepreneur and author.
API
An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.
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Application software
An application program (software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than one relating to the operation of the computer itself, typically to be used by end-users.
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Asynchronous communication
In telecommunications, asynchronous communication is transmission of data, generally without the use of an external clock signal, where data can be transmitted intermittently rather than in a steady stream.
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Atom (web standard)
The name Atom applies to a pair of related Web standards.
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Blink element
The blink element is a non-standard HTML element that indicates to a user agent (generally a web browser) that the page author intends the content of the element to blink (that is, alternate between being visible and invisible).
Blog
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Web 2.0 and blog are new media.
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Blogger (service)
Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 which enables its users to write blogs with time-stamped entries.
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Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek, previously known as BusinessWeek (and before that Business Week and The Business Week), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year.
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Browser extension
A browser extension is a software module for customizing a web browser.
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Browser wars
A browser war is a competition for dominance in the usage share of web browsers.
Business 2.0
Business 2.0 was a monthly magazine publication founded by magazine entrepreneur Chris Anderson, Mark Gross, and journalist James Daly in order to chronicle the rise of the "New Economy".
Business model
A business model describes how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value,Business Model Generation, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Alan Smith, and 470 practitioners from 45 countries, self-published, 2010 in economic, social, cultural or other contexts.
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Buzzword
A buzzword is a word or phrase, new or already existing, that becomes popular for a period of time.
Cease and desist
A cease and desist letter is a document sent by one party, often a business, to warn another party that they believe the other party is committing an unlawful act, such as copyright infringement, and that they will take legal action if the other party continues the alleged unlawful activity.
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CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
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Client (computing)
Client is a computer that gets information from another computer called server in the context of client–server model of computer networks.
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Client–server model
The client–server model is a distributed application structure that partitions tasks or workloads between the providers of a resource or service, called servers, and service requesters, called clients.
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Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user.
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Collaborative consumption
Collaborative consumption is the set of those resource circulation systems in which consumers both "obtain" and "provide", temporarily or permanently, valuable resources or services through direct interaction with other consumers or through a mediator.
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Collective intelligence
Collective intelligence (CI) is shared or group intelligence (GI) that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making.
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Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
The comments section is a feature on most online blogs, news websites, and other websites in which the publishers invite the audience to comment on the published content. Web 2.0 and comments section are web 2.0 neologisms.
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Common Gateway Interface
The official CGI logo from the spec announcement In computing, Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP or HTTPS user requests.
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Computer data storage
Computer data storage or digital data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data.
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Computer-supported collaborative learning
Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is a pedagogical approach wherein learning takes place via social interaction using a computer or through the Internet.
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Computer-supported cooperative work
Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is the study of how people utilize technology collaboratively, often towards a shared goal.
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Computing platform
A computing platform, digital platform, or software platform is the infrastructure on which software is executed.
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Connectivity refers broadly to social connections forged through mediated communications systems.
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Content curation
Content curation is the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest, usually with the intention of adding value through the process of selecting, organizing, and looking after the items in a collection or exhibition.
See Web 2.0 and Content curation
Crowd computing
Crowd computing is a form of distributed work where tasks that are hard for computers to do, are handled by large numbers of humans distributed across the internet.
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Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing involves a large group of dispersed participants contributing or producing goods or services—including ideas, votes, micro-tasks, and finances—for payment or as volunteers. Web 2.0 and Crowdsourcing are social information processing.
Customer service
Customer service is the assistance and advice provided by a company through phone, online chat, and e-mail to those who buy or use its products or services.
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Cute cat theory of digital activism
The cute cat theory of digital activism is a theory concerning Internet activism, Web censorship, and "cute cats" (a term used for any low-value, but popular online activity) developed by Ethan Zuckerman in 2008.
See Web 2.0 and Cute cat theory of digital activism
Dale Dougherty
Dale Dougherty (born 1956) is a co-founder of O'Reilly Media, along with Tim O'Reilly.
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Darcy DiNucci
Darcy DiNucci is an author, web designer and expert in user experience.
Data model
A data model is an abstract model that organizes elements of data and standardizes how they relate to one another and to the properties of real-world entities.
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.
Digital photography
Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film.
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Document Object Model
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a cross-platform and language-independent interface that treats an HTML or XML document as a tree structure wherein each node is an object representing a part of the document.
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Dot-com bubble
The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.
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Dynamic HTML
Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is a term which was used by some browser vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and client-side scripts (JavaScript, VBScript, or any other supported scripts) that enabled the creation of interactive and animated documents.
Dynamic programming language
In computer science, a dynamic programming language is a class of high-level programming languages which at runtime execute many common programming behaviours that static programming languages perform during compilation.
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Dynamic web page
A dynamic web page is a web page constructed at runtime (during software execution), as opposed to a static web page, delivered as it is stored.
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E-government
E-government (short for electronic government) is the use of technological communications devices, such as computers and the Internet, to provide public services to citizens and other persons in a country or region.
EBay
eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.
See Web 2.0 and EBay
Educational technology
Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning.
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Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
Email client
An email client, email reader or, more formally, message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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End user
In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product.
Enterprise social software (also known as or regarded as a major component of Enterprise 2.0), comprises social software as used in "enterprise" (business/commercial) contexts. Web 2.0 and Enterprise social software are social information processing.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.
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Eternal September
Eternal September or the September that never ended refers to a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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EyeOS
eyeOS (Stylized as eyeOS) is a web desktop for cloud computing,whose main purpose is to enable collaboration and communication among users.
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta. Web 2.0 and Facebook are social information processing.
File system
In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access.
First Monday (journal)
First Monday is a monthly peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering research on the Internet, published in the United States.
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Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. Web 2.0 and Flickr are social information processing.
FOAF
FOAF (an acronym of friend of a friend) is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects.
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Folk taxonomy
A folk taxonomy is a vernacular naming system, as distinct from scientific taxonomy.
Folksonomy
Folksonomy is a classification system in which end users apply public tags to online items, typically to make those items easier for themselves or others to find later. Web 2.0 and Folksonomy are web 2.0 neologisms.
Frame (World Wide Web)
In the context of a web browser, a frame is a part of a web page or browser window which displays content independent of its container, with the ability to load content independently.
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Free-rider problem
In economics, the free-rider problem is a type of market failure that occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods and common pool resources do not pay for them or under-pay.
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GeoCities
GeoCities, later Yahoo! GeoCities, was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest, active from 1994 to 2009.
GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
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Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Google Docs
Google Docs is an online word processor and part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google, which also includes Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Google Forms, Google Sites and Google Keep.
Guestbook
A guestbook (also guest book, visitor log, visitors' book, visitors' album) is a paper or electronic means for a visitor to acknowledge a visit to a site, physical or web-based, and leave details such as their name, postal or electronic address and any comments.
Hacker
A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals by non-standard means.
HATEOAS
Hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS) is a constraint of the REST software architectural style that distinguishes it from other network architectural styles.
HCL Notes
HCL Notes (formerly Lotus Notes then IBM Notes) is a proprietary collaborative software platform for Unix (AIX), IBM i, Windows, Linux, and macOS, sold by HCLTech.
Health 2.0
"Health 2.0" is a term introduced in the mid-2000s, as the subset of health care technologies mirroring the wider Web 2.0 movement.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
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HTML5
HTML5 (Hypertext Markup Language 5) is a markup language used for structuring and presenting hypertext documents on the World Wide Web.
HTTP
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
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IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
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IBM Developer
IBM Developer is a global community of coders, developer advocates, and digital resources that help developers learn, build, and connect.
Image sharing
Image sharing, or photo sharing, is the publishing or transfer of digital photos online.
Information architecture
Information architecture (IA) is the structural design of shared information environments; the art and science of organizing and labelling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability; and an emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design, architecture and information science to the digital landscape.
See Web 2.0 and Information architecture
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms.
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.
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Interoperability
Interoperability is a characteristic of a product or system to work with other products or systems.
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IP address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
Jakarta EE
Jakarta EE, formerly Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), is a set of specifications, extending Java SE with specifications for enterprise features such as distributed computing and web services.
Jargon
Jargon or technical language is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity.
Java (programming language)
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.
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JavaScript
JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS.
JavaScript library
A JavaScript library is a library of pre-written JavaScript code that allows for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies.
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John Battelle
John Linwood Battelle (born November 4, 1965) is an entrepreneur, author and journalist.
Josh Kopelman
Joshua Kopelman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist.
JSON
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation, pronounced or) is an open standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays (or other serializable values).
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Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman (born June 26, 1969) is an American novelist and journalist who wrote The Magicians Trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014).
Libraries in virtual worlds
Libraries in virtual worlds are part of an immersive 3D environment that can be used for entertainment and educational purposes.
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Library 2.0
Library 2.0 is a proposed concept for library services that facilitate user contributions and other features of Web 2.0, which includes online services such as OPAC systems.
Like button
A like button, like option, or recommend button is a feature in communication software such as social networking services, Internet forums, news websites and blogs where the user can express that they like, enjoy or support certain content.
Linus's law
In software development, Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
List of free and open-source web applications
All web applications, both traditional and Web 2.0, are operated by software running somewhere.
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List of web service specifications
There are a variety of specifications associated with web services. Web 2.0 and List of web service specifications are web services.
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Lists of network protocols
This is a list of articles that list different types or classifications of communication protocols used in computer networks.
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LiveJournal
LiveJournal (Живой Журнал), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary.
Machine-readable medium and data
In communications and computing, a machine-readable medium (or computer-readable medium) is a medium capable of storing data in a format easily readable by a digital computer or a sensor.
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Mailto
mailto is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for email addresses.
Marketing
Marketing is the act of satisfying and retaining customers.
Marquee element
The marquee tag is a non-standard HTML element which causes text to scroll up, down, left or right automatically.
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Mashup (web application hybrid)
A mashup (computer industry jargon), in web development, is a web page or web application that uses content from more than one source to create a single new service displayed in a single graphical interface. Web 2.0 and mashup (web application hybrid) are web 2.0 neologisms.
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Mass collaboration
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.
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In communication, media are the outlets or tools used to store and deliver content; semantic information or subject matter of which the media contains.
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Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself.
Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft Silverlight is a discontinued application framework designed for writing and running rich internet applications, similar to Adobe's runtime, Adobe Flash.
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Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which feature little to no interaction between users. Web 2.0 and Multimedia are new media.
Myspace
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States.
Narcissism
Narcissism is a selfcentered personality style characterized as having an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one's own needs, often at the expense of others.
Netscape
Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and then Dulles, Virginia.
New media are communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content. Web 2.0 and New media are internet culture.
O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.
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Online video platform
An online video platform (OVP) enables users to upload, convert, store, and play back video content on the Internet, often via a private server structured, large-scale system that may generate revenue.
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Open-source governance
Open-source governance (also known as open governance and open politics) is a political philosophy which advocates the application of the philosophies of the open-source and open-content movements to democratic principles to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of policy, as with a wiki document.
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Open-source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
See Web 2.0 and Operating system
PageRank (PR) is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank web pages in their search engine results.
Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc., was an American company that specialized in manufacturing personal digital assistants (PDAs) and developing software.
Paradigm
In science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitute legitimate contributions to a field.
Participatory culture
Participatory culture, an opposing concept to consumer culture, is a culture in which private individuals (the public) do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers (prosumers). Web 2.0 and Participatory culture are internet culture.
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Paul Miller (journalist)
Paul Miller (September 28, 1906 – August 21, 1991) was an American newspaper executive and journalist.
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PCMag
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
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Perpetual beta
Perpetual beta is the keeping of software or a system at the beta development stage for an extended or indefinite period of time. Web 2.0 and Perpetual beta are web 2.0 neologisms.
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Personal digital assistant
A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multi-purpose mobile device which functions as a personal information manager.
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Personal web page
Personal web pages are World Wide Web pages created by an individual to contain content of a personal nature rather than content pertaining to a company, organization or institution. Web 2.0 and personal web page are new media.
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PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development.
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Pixel
In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device.
Plug-in (computing)
In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program. Web 2.0 and plug-in (computing) are technology neologisms.
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Podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.
Political economy
Political economy is a branch of political science and economics studying economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and their governance by political systems (e.g. law, institutions, and government).
See Web 2.0 and Political economy
Porn 2.0
Porn 2.0, named after "Web 2.0", refers to pornographic websites featuring amateur content, including social networking features such as user-based categorizing, webcam hosting, blogs, and comments.
Presentation program
In computing, a presentation program (also called presentation software) is a software package used to display information in the form of a slide show.
See Web 2.0 and Presentation program
Since the arrival of early social networking sites in the early 2000s, online social networking platforms have expanded exponentially, with the biggest names in social media in the mid-2010s being Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat.
See Web 2.0 and Privacy concerns with social networking services
Productivity software
Productivity software (also called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital paintings, electronic music and digital video).
See Web 2.0 and Productivity software
Python (programming language)
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.
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QuickTime
QuickTime is a discontinued extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats.
Radical trust
Radical trust is the confidence that any structured organization, such as a government, library, business, religion, or museum, has in collaboration and empowerment within online communities.
Relational database
A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970.
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Resource Description Framework
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard originally designed as a data model for metadata.
See Web 2.0 and Resource Description Framework
Responsive web design
Responsive web design (RWD) or responsive design is an approach to web design that aims to make web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or screen sizes from minimum to maximum display size to ensure usability and satisfaction.
See Web 2.0 and Responsive web design
REST
REST (representational state transfer) is a software architectural style that was created to guide the design and development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 and REST are web 2.0 neologisms.
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Retronym
A retronym is a newer name for something that differentiates it from something else that is newer and similar; thus, avoiding confusion between the two.
Review site
A review site is a website on which reviews can be posted about people, businesses, products, or services.
Rich Internet Application
A Rich Internet Application (also known as a rich web application, RIA or installable Internet application) is a web application that has many of the characteristics of desktop application software.
See Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Application
RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format.
See Web 2.0 and RSS
Ruby (programming language)
Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language.
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Scalability
Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of work.
Sci-Mate
Sci-Mate was a proposal for an open collaboration of scientists using Web 2.0 software to address well known challenges in academic publishing and technology transfer.
Science 2.0
Science 2.0 is a suggested new approach to science that uses information-sharing and collaboration made possible by network technologies.
Search engine (computing)
In computing, a search engine is an information retrieval software system designed to help find information stored on one or more computer systems.
See Web 2.0 and Search engine (computing)
Search engine optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website traffic to a website or a web page from search engines.
See Web 2.0 and Search engine optimization
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0 (not to be confused with Web3), is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Web 2.0 and Semantic Web are internet ages and web services.
Server (computing)
A server is a computer that provides information to other computers called "clients" on computer network.
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Server Side Includes
Server Side Includes (SSI) is a simple interpreted server-side scripting language used almost exclusively for the World Wide Web.
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Server-side scripting
Server-side scripting is a technique used in web development which involves employing scripts on a web server which produces a response customized for each user's (client's) request to the website.
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Service mark
A service mark or servicemark is a trademark used in the United States and several other countries to identify a service rather than a product.
A shared web hosting service is a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet.
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SLATES
SLATES (Search, Links, Authorship, Tags, Extensions, Signalling) is an initialism that describes the business impacting capabilities, derived from the effective use of Web 2.0 technologies in and across enterprises. Web 2.0 and SLATES are web 2.0 neologisms.
SOAP
SOAP (formerly an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks.
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Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Web 2.0 and Social bookmarking are social information processing.
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Social commerce is a subset of electronic commerce that involves social media and online media that supports social interaction, and user contributions to assist online buying and selling of products and services.
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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks. Web 2.0 and Social media are internet culture.
A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. Web 2.0 and social network are social information processing.
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A social networking service (SNS), or social networking site, is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. Web 2.0 and social networking service are social information processing.
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Social shopping is a method of e-commerce where shoppers' friends become involved in the shopping experience.
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The social web is a set of social relations that link people through the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 and social web are web 2.0 neologisms.
Software as a service
Software as a service (SaaS) is a form of cloud computing in which the provider offers the use of application software to a client and manages all the physical and software resources used by the application. Web 2.0 and software as a service are cloud applications.
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Software bug
A software bug is a bug in computer software.
Software versioning
Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software.
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A software widget is a relatively simple and easy-to-use software application or component made for one or more different software platforms.
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Spacer GIF
A spacer GIF is a small, transparent GIF image that is used in web design and HTML coding.
Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form.
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
In information systems, a tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, multimedia, database record, or computer file).
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Taxonomy
Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization.
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.
Technological utopianism
Technological utopianism (often called techno-utopianism or technoutopianism) is any ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfill one or another utopian ideal.
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Terry Flew
Terry Flew is an Australian media and communications scholar, and Professor of Digital Communication and Culture in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Text editor
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text.
The Cult of the Amateur
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture is a 2007 book written by entrepreneur and Internet critic Andrew Keen.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category.
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Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.
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Tim O'Reilly
Timothy O'Reilly (born 6 June 1954) is an Irish-American author and publisher, who is the founder of O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates).
Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Travel website
A travel website is a website that provides travel reviews, trip fares, or a combination of both.
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Tripadvisor
Tripadvisor, Inc. is an American company that operates online travel agencies, comparison shopping websites, and mobile apps with user-generated content.
Tripod (web hosting)
Tripod.com is a web hosting service owned by Lycos.
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Tumblr
Tumblr (pronounced "tumbler") is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by American company Automattic.
X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
UBM Technology Group
UBM Technology Group, formerly CMP Publications, was a business-to-business multimedia company that provided information and integrated marketing services to technology professionals worldwide.
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Uniform Resource Identifier
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), formerly Universal Resource Identifier, is a unique sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource, such as resources on a webpage, mail address, phone number, books, real-world objects such as people and places, concepts.
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
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Usability
Usability can be described as the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience.
User (computing)
A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service.
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User experience
User experience (UX) is how a user interacts with and experiences a product, system or service.
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User interface
In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.
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User profile
A user profile is a collection of settings and information associated with a user.
User-generated content
User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), is generally any form of content, such as images, videos, audio, text, testimonials, and software (e.g. video game mods), that has been posted by users on online content aggregation platforms such as social media, discussion forums and wikis. Web 2.0 and user-generated content are new media.
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Venture capital
Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc.
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A virtual community is a social work of individuals who connect through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. Web 2.0 and virtual community are social information processing.
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Walt Disney World
The Walt Disney World Resort (also known as Walt Disney World or Disney World) is an entertainment resort complex located about southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States.
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Web 2.0 for development
Participatory Web 2.0 for development (in short Web2forDev) was a term coined around 2007-2008 to describe new ways of employing legemvweb services, in order to improve information sharing and collaborative production of content in the context of development work.
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Web 2.0 Summit
The Web 2.0 Summit (originally known as the Web 2.0 Conference) was an annual event, held in San Francisco, California from 2004 to 2011, that featured discussions about the World Wide Web.
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Web application
A web application (or web app) is application software that is accessed using a web browser.
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Web browser
A web browser is an application for accessing websites.
Web feed
On the World Wide Web, a web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.
Web hosting service
A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients, i.e. it offers the facilities required for them to create and maintain a site and makes it accessible on the World Wide Web.
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Web server
A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS.
Web service
A web service (WS) is either. Web 2.0 and web service are web services.
Web Services Description Language
The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based interface description language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service.
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Web standards
Web standards are the formal, non-proprietary standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web.
Web syndication
Web syndication is making content available from one website to other sites.
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Web-oriented architecture
Web-oriented architecture (WOA) was coined in 2006 by Nick Gall of Gartner.
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Web3
Web3 (also known as Web 3.0) is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web which incorporates concepts such as decentralization, blockchain technologies, and token-based economics. Web 2.0 and Web3 are internet ages.
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Website
A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.
Wiki
A wiki is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. Web 2.0 and wiki are social information processing.
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Web 2.0 and Wikipedia are social information processing.
Windows Media is a discontinued multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows.
Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Wireless Application Protocol
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a now obsolete technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network.
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Word processor
A word processor (WP) is a device or computer program that provides for input, editing, formatting, and output of text, often with some additional features.
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WordPress
WordPress (also known as WP or WordPress.org) is a web content management system.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
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World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 and World Wide Web Consortium are web services.
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WPS Office
WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Fire OS and HarmonyOS developed by Zhuhai-based Chinese software developer company, Kingsoft.
WYSIWYG
In computing, WYSIWYG, an acronym for what you see is what you get, refers to software that allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.
XHTML Friends Network
XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat developed by Global Multimedia Protocols Group that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links.
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XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.
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You (Time Person of the Year)
"You" was the official choice for Times Person of the Year in 2006. Web 2.0 and You (Time Person of the Year) are social information processing.
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YouOS
YouOS was a web desktop and web integrated development environment, developed by Webshaka until June 2008.
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
.NET Framework
The.NET Framework (pronounced as "dot net") is a proprietary software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows.
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See also
1990s in computing
- 1990s in video games
- Memory card
- Web 2.0
1999 neologisms
- Ask for More
- Bullet time
- Favicon
- Generation Jones
- Nothing Happens
- Parasite single
- Pay to surf
- Philicon Valley
- Red pill and blue pill
- Rules of the garage
- Third-wave coffee
- Web 2.0
- Whassup?
2000s in computing
- 2000s in video games
- 2001 in computing
- 2002 in computing
- 2003 in computing
- 2004 in computing
- 2005 in computing
- 2006 in computing
- 2007 in computing
- 2008 in computing
- 2009 in computing
- Web 2.0
Internet ages
- Semantic Web
- Web 1.0
- Web 2.0
- Web3
Technology neologisms
- 1% rule
- Applet
- Bozo bit
- Chimping
- Clickbait
- Cloud manufacturing
- Cockroach (startup)
- Code refactoring
- Dark pattern
- Digital native
- Domain tasting
- Galápagos syndrome
- Giclée
- Heterostasis (cybernetics)
- Lifelog
- List of archaic technological nomenclature
- Marchitecture
- Nanosocialism
- Object hyperlinking
- Peercasting
- Phantom vibration syndrome
- Plug-in (computing)
- Rage-baiting
- Singularitarianism
- Smart cow problem
- Social machine
- Spinner (computing)
- Technocriticism
- Technoetics
- Technorealism
- Throbber
- Time shifting
- TimeTrax
- Tivoization
- Unbundling
- Vexel
- Virtuality (software design)
- Web 2.0
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Web 2.0 neologisms
- 1% rule
- Ajax (programming)
- BOSH (protocol)
- Comet (programming)
- Comments section
- Crowdfixing
- Deplatforming
- E-lancing
- Folksonomy
- Geoweb
- Identicon
- Learning Tools Interoperability
- Mashup (web application hybrid)
- Microcontent
- Perpetual beta
- Planet (software)
- REST
- SLATES
- Slashdot effect
- Social web
- Tag cloud
- Web 2.0
- Web API
- Web of Things
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
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