Glossary of Web 2.0 Terms

1. Assignment 2-Web 2.0 Glossary
Blog: A section of a website dedicated to routinely updated and categorized articles and/or content postings
Blogosphere: A common term used to describe the large and diverse blogging community at large.
Instant Messaging (IM): a method of exchanging text messages in real time. Facebook and MS messenger are
both popular IM messaging applications.
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol): Technology that enables telephone or video calls to be made over the
internet instead of traditional telephone systems. Skype is one of the more popular versions of VoIP.
Microblog: A blog on which one posts brief, frequent updates on ones activities or status. A widely popular
example is twitter, where each posting is called a Tweet.
Peer to Peer (P2P): A computer network that takes advantage of the combined bandwidth of network
participants rather than traditional network servers. These networks are popular for file sharing and are often
the targets of illegal content and virus infected files.
RSS (Really Simple Syndication): A form of subscribing to blogs, news or other content in order to receive
updated content from online sources.
Social Bookmarking: services that enable users to store lists of internet resources they find useful and make
them accessible to others with similar interests.
Social Networking: sites that enable individuals to communicate others over the internet. Facebook is the most
popular social networking site.
Tags: An informal approach of using keywords to classify content and a primary method for organizing content
stored in Web 2.0 applications
Tag Cloud: A visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Each term in the tag cloud is a link to the
collection of items that have that tag.
Web 2.0: is the next incarnation of the World Wide Web, where digital tools allow users to create, change, and
publish dynamic content of all kinds
WYSIWYG: A web browser-based visual editor used to modify content - usually associated with a Content
Management System (CMS)