Web 2.0 terms
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This blog entry was posted on October 31, 2007.
- Ajax – Acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. A combination of several programming tools to build interactive applications. Allows the content of a web page to be updated or changed without the entire page being reloaded.
- CGI-BIN–A place (folder) where common gateway interface (CGI) scripts are stored for a website or blog.
- Creative Commons – A non-profit organization. Creative Commons has developed a set of free public licenses to enable authors to share their work with others. See Some Rights Reserved.
- CSS– Cascading Style Sheets are a standard for specifying the appearance of text and other webpage elements.
- Folksonomy – Short for folk (or folks) and taxonomy. A user generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags.
- Footer – The bottom part of a blog or webpage. Usually consists of navigation links and a copyright statement.
- FTP – Short for file transfer protocol. A standard protocol for exchange of files between computers on the Internet.
- Header – The topmost portion of a web page or blog page. Common elements include website title, graphics and navigation.
- HTML – Acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. The dominant programming language used to create websites and web pages on the World Wide Web.
- Index page – The home page or front page of a blog or website. This is the default page that displays when the top level of a website is accessed.
- Link Popularity – A measurement of the quality and quantity of inbound links to a webpage. A factor which affects a website’s search engine rankings.
- Live Bookmarks – A feature of the Firefox web browser. Updated content from your favorite sites is brought to you.
- Mashup –A web application that combines data from multiple sources into a single integrated tool. Example: Cartographic data from Google Maps is used to add location maps in a real estate listings website.
- Navbar – Short for navigation bar. A common navigation feature, this is a horizontal row of navigation buttons or links usually located near the top of a website or blog.
- OPML – Short for Outline Processor Markup Language. This is an XML format that allows exchange of outline-structured information.
- Page Rank – Google’s measurement of how important a page is and affects search rankings. This is an index that values Web pages on a scale of 0 to 10, based largely on link popularity.
- PHP – Short for Hypertext Preprocessor. An open source, server-side HTML scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. A programming language for creating web applications.
- Read-Write Web – Another name for Web 2.0. The second generation of the web making collaboration and interacting easier using blogs and wikis.
- Reciprocal Links – These are links to another website placed on your site in exchange for links back to your site from theirs. Used to improve search engine rankings. Sometimes called link love.
- Semantic Web – The future evolution of the World Wide Web. The Semantic Web will allow people to more easily find, share, and combine information.
- SEO – Short for search engine optimization. Techniques and strategies (white hat, black hat) to gain higher rankings in the search engine results.
- Social Networking – Social networking is linking people to each other in some way. Social networking sites bring people together who people interested in a particular subject.
- Some Rights Reserved – This is a concept started by Creative Commons without any charge. This allows copyright holders to more easily share a copyrighted work and overcome the inherently restrictive nature of copyright law.
- URL – Uniform Resource Locator. The complete address for a webpage or file. Example: http://www.dougwilliams.com/index.php
- Web 2.0 – A term coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004 to describe a second generation of the web. This describes more user participation, social interaction and collaboration with the use of blogs, wikis, social networking and folksonomies.
- Web Syndication – A form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use. Examples are RSS and Atom feeds.
- Widgets – Visual objects, icons or graphical interface elements that can be manipulated by the computer user to perform a desired function online or on their computer.
- Wiki – Short for “wiki wiki” which means “rapidly” in the Hawaiian language. Wiki is a website that allows visitors to edit content using their browser. This is a collaborative website.
- XML – Short for eXtensible Markup Language. A simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML; a general-purpose markup language for blog syndication.
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