Definitions

User-generated content- Various types of media content, publicly viewable, created by any end-user

Long Tail- Retailing concept used to describe the process of selling a large number of unique items in small quantities usually in addition to selling a few popular items in large qualities

Web operating system- Used to describe network services for internet scale distributed computing

Folksonomy- A system of classification derived from collaboratively creating and managing tags in order to annotate and categorize content.

Web syndication- Form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites.

Mass Collaboration- Form of collective action that occurs when large numbers of people individuals work collectively on a product

Computer-supported collaboration- Focuses on technology that affects groups, organizations, communities, and society.

Social Software- A range of software systems that allow users to interact and share data.

Web Application- Application that is accessed via a web browser over a network such as the internet or intranet.

Hosted Services- Delivers a combination of traditional functions such as infrastructure, applications, security, monitoring etc over the internet or other wired area networks

Blog- Type of website usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, depictions of events, graphics videos, etc.

Video-sharing- Allows individuals to upload video clips to an internet site, then the video is stored on the server

Wiki- A website that allows easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked pages via a web browser

Mashup- digital media content containing any texts, graphics, audio, video, and animation taken from pre-existing sources to create a new derrivative work.