Web 2.0 Terms

User-generated content: The types of media content that is made publicly available by end-users.
Long Tail: The retailing concept that is the niche strategy of selling a large amount of products in small quantities.
Network as Platform: The network services for internet scale distributed computing that extends across the internet.
Folksonomy: The system of classification that combines collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
Web Syndication: The form of syndication that allows website material to be made available to many other sites.
Mass Collaboration: The form of collective action when many people work independently on a single project often while using computer and web technologies.
Computer-supported collaboration: The research that focuses on technology that affects groups, organizations, communities and societies.
Web Applications: An application that is reached through a web browser overan internet network.
Social Software: The range of software that allow users to interact and share information ie: Facebook, YouTube.
Video-sharing sites: Internet sites that enable users to post video infomation.
Wiki: A website that allows users to create or edit linked webpages using simple text editor.
Blog: A type of website that enables the user to maintain regular entries of thoughts and media.