Web+2.0+Vocabulary

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What is Web 2.0?
Web 2. 0 refers to a supposed second-generation of Internet-based services — such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies — that let people collaborate and share information online in previously unavailable ways. media type="youtube" key="NLlGopyXT_g"

Web 2.0 Words
(feel free to add some here--these are just a start)
 * **Aggregator** – software that uses a web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results. Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper." Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update. The content is sometimes described as being "pulled" to the subscriber, as opposed to "pushed" with email or IM. Unlike recipients of some "pushed" information, the aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from a feed.
 * **Blog** – a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
 * **Folksomony** -- an Internet-based information retrieval methodology consisting of collaboratively generated, open-ended labels that categorize content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links. The labels are commonly known as **tags** and the labeling process is called **tagging**.
 * **iPod** -- a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Computer.
 * **Mashups** -- a website or web application that combines content from more than one source.
 * **MP3 Player** -- a device that stores, organizes and plays digital music files; also called a Digital Audio Player.
 * **Podcast** -- a multimedia file distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.
 * **RSS** – (Real Simple Syndication) allows users to subscribe to their favorite websites or podcasts using an aggregator.
 * **Social bookmarking** -- a web based service, where shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks are displayed.
 * **Social software** -- enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through computer-mediated communication and to form online communities.
 * **Tag** -- a word you use to describe a blog, wiki, bookmark, picture, etc. Unlike folders, you make up tags when you need them and you can use as many as you like. The result is a better way to organize and makes it easier to search and discover interesting things on the Web.
 * **Wiki** -- a type of website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration.

Definitions from [|www.wikipedia.com]