Every revolution comes with its own language, and Web 2.0 is no different. Unfortunately, language can also exclude outsiders and newcomers, especially if it is more complex than it has to be. In the spirit of inclusion, we prepared this Web 2.0 "cheat sheet" after this morning's breakfast seminar.
An umbrella term for a range of trends that are changing how individuals and organisations build and use websites. Most of these trends have the effect of shifting some control over the internet away from companies and governments and towards consumers, employees and citizens.
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- The rise of social software
- The rise of tagging
- The rise of blogging
Software and websites that help individuals to find and connect with each other, whether to find a job, share ideas or any other reason.
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Letting users control the way in which a website sorts games, links, photos or anything else by helping them to create categories that make sense to them.
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(Note: when organisations take control of how content is sorted, they are said to be creating a "taxonomy". When users control the process, they are said to be creating a "folksonomy".)
A list of tags that automatically updates so that the size of each tag varies according to how often that tag is used on a website.
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A website that users can update with just one click, posting each new article to the top of the page.
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A website that is created and edited by a group of people.
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Any blog, wiki or other form of media that is created by consumers, employees or citizens rather than by traditional mass media (MSM) outlets.
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A tool for ensuring that the content that is published on one website is automatically made available to any other website and to any person who is using an RSS reader.
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The use of RSS to automatically send audio recordings to PCs or portable music players whenever a new episode of the recording is released.
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A set of programming techniques that make it easier to build websites that behave less like static pages to be read or forms to be filled and more like truly interactive desktop software.
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A website that uses information that's found on other websites to create a new web experience.
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(Note: the programming "hooks" that allow one site to exploit another are called APIs.)