Web 2.0 terms and definitions

User-generated content: reference to types of publicly available media content that are produced by its users. The term was coined in 2005 after arising in web publishing and new media content production circles.

Long-tail: refers to the selling strategy that calls for selling large number of unique items in relatively small quantities over great distances. For example, Netflix and Gamefly use this retailing concept.

Network as Platform: term used to describe operating systems, like WebOS, which provide network services for internet scale distributed computing.

Folksonomy: is a system of classification used for managing tags to annotate and categorize content as part of social software applications such as social bookmarking and photograph annotation.

Syndication: the ability to access information on website from multiple other sites. Web syndication helps networking by making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary of the website's recently added content

Mass collaboration: is a form of collective action that occurs when large numbers of people work independently on a single project. Such projects typically take place on the internet using social software and computer-supported collaboration tools such as wiki technologies, which provide a potentially infinite hypertextual substrate within which the collaboration may be situated.

Computer-supported collaboration: focuses on technology that affects groups, organizations, communities and societies, e.g., voice mail and text chat.

Social-Software: encompasses a range of software systems that allow users to interact and share data. This computer-mediated communication has become very popular with social sites like MySpace and Facebook, media sites like Flickr and YouTube as well as commercial sites like Amazon.com and eBay.

Web hosting services: is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center.