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Term to search (leave blank if you want to retrieve all entries in the narrowed category) Narrow search to: Product Person Event Blog Concept Book Term Service Social Networking Blogs CRM Podcasting Social Bookmarking Wikis Videos Music Photos VOIP Micro-blogging [A][B][C][D] [E][F][G] [H][I][J][K][L][M] [N][O][P][Q] [R][S][T][U][V][W][X][Y][Z] - Search results - AdSense -- Service Google.com's internet advertising service. Anderson, Tom -- Person Founder of MySpace.com. Blinklist -- Service A social bookmarking service. Blogger -- Service A free blog provider service. See: http://www.blogger.com. Brin, Sergey -- Person Co-founder of Google.com. Collaborative Software -- Term Software that enables work people to connect to accomplish work functions, as opposed to Social Networking. Wikis are an example of Collaborative Software. Deep linking -- Term Deep linking, on the World Wide Web, is making a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image on another website, instead of that website's main or home page. Such links are called deep links. Source. Del.icio.us -- Social Bookmarking Social bookmarking service. http://del.icio.us/. Digg -- Social Bookmarking Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a variety of other categories such as politics and videos. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. Source Facebook -- Social Networking Facebook is an English-language social networking website. It was originally developed for college and university students but has since been made available to anyone to join with an email address that connects them to a participating network, such as their high school, place of employment or geographic region. Source. Folksonomy -- Term A user generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags. Source Friendster -- Social Networking Friendster is an Internet social network service. The Friendster site was founded in Mountain View, California by Jonathan Abrams in 2002 and is privately owned. Friendster is based on the Circle of Friends (social network) technique for networking individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon. Source. Friis, Janus -- VOIP Co-founder of Skype. Furl -- Service A social bookmarking site like del.icio.us, Furl enables members to bookmark, annotate, and share web pages. Topics are used to categorize saved sites, similar to the tagging feature of other social websites. Additionally, a user may write comments, save clippings, assign each bookmark a rating and keywords (which are given greater weight while searching), and have an option of private or public storage for each topic or item archived. Source GoDaddy -- Service A domain name provider. Godin, Seth -- Person An author of business books and speaker of the late 1990s to the present. His first book to achieve mainstream popularity was on the topic of permission marketing. He is the founder of Squidoo. Google -- Service A search engine owned by Google, Inc. whose mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The largest search engine on the web, Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. The last reported figures were 200 million queries each day as of February 2004, up from 3 million queries per day in September 1999 resp. 10,000 queries per day in November 1998. Source. HITS Algorith -- Term Hypertext Induced Topic Selection (HITS) is a link analysis algorithm that rates Web pages for their authority and hub values. Authority value estimates the value of the content of the page; hub value estimates the value of its links to other pages. These values can be used to rank Web search results. HITS was developed by Jon Kleinberg. Source: Wikipedia. iPod -- Product iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched in 2001. Devices in the iPod range are primarily digital audio players, designed around a central click wheel — although the iPod shuffle has buttons only. As of October 2005, the line-up consists of the video-capable fifth generation iPod, the smaller iPod nano, and the display-less iPod shuffle. The full-sized model stores media on an internal hard drive, while the smaller iPod nano and iPod shuffle use flash memory. Like many digital music players, iPods can also serve as external data storage devices. In January 2007, Apple announced the iPhone, a device that combined the features of the video-capable iPod with mobile phone and mobile Internet capabilities. Source: Wikipedia Jaiku -- Micro-blogging Jaiku.com is a social networking and micro-blogging service comparable to the online site Twitter[1]. Jaiku was founded in July, 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen of Finland. Source: Wikipedia. JotSpot -- Wikis JotSpot is an application wiki Google-owned subsidiary that offers enterprise social software. The product is targeted mainly to small and medium-sized businesses. The company was founded by Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer, co-founders of Excite.Source Kazaa -- Service Kazaa Media Desktop (once capitalized as "KaZaA", but now usually left as "Kazaa") is a controversial peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol. Kazaa is owned by Australian company Sharman Networks and is famous for it's alleged high number of computer viruses, trojans and worms. Source Kraus, Joe -- Wikis Co-founder of JotSpot with Graham Spencer. Mashup -- Term A mashup is a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience. Source. Mistweet -- Micro-blogging A micro-blog post someone regrets. You can delete posts from your Twitter profile page but you can’t edit them or take them back. MySpace -- Social Networking A social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos. It is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, USA, while its parent company, News Corporation, is headquartered in New York City. Founded in July 2003 by Tom Anderson. Source. O'Reilly Media -- General O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics. Source. Page, Larry -- Product Co-founder of Google.com. PageRank -- Term A link analysis algorithm which assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E). Source: Wikipedia. Podcast -- Term An audio file available for download via the internet, usually subscribed to via an RSS feed. Podcasting -- Term A method of publishing, usually audiofiles, to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost. It first became popular in late 2004. RDF -- Term Resource Description Framework. See RSS. Reddit -- Social Bookmarking reddit is a community website where users can post links to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the reddit home page. Source Resource Description Framework -- Term See RSS. Rojo -- Service A social bookmarking service. RSS -- Term (Rich Site Summary or RDF [Resource Description Framework] Site Summary). An XML format for sharing content among different Web sites such as news items. A Web site can allow other sites to publish some of its content by creating an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher. A web publisher can post a link to the RSS feed so users can read the distributed content on his/her site. Source. SaaS -- Term Software as a service. Simpy -- Social Bookmarking Simpy is a web-based personal and social bookmarking service. The service launched in May 2004, and as such is one of the oldest social bookmarking services that is still operating independently, not run by a large publicly traded company (del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo!, and Furl was acquired by Looksmart). Source Skype -- VOIP Skype (IPA pronunciation: /skʌɪp/, rhymes with type) is a peer-to-peer Internet telephony network founded by the entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, also founders of the file sharing application Kazaa. It competes against existing open VoIP protocols such as SIP, IAX, and H.323. The Skype Group, acquired by eBay in October 2005, is headquartered in Luxembourg, with offices in London, Tallinn and Prague[1]. Skypecast -- Podcasting Refers to the use of the Skype voice over IP software to record teleconferences in which multiple people can be present in a broadcast despite being geographically distributed and publish them as podcasts, which allow audio or video content to be syndicated over the Internet. The first "Skypecast" was recorded by Australians Cameron Reilly and Mick Stanic in their first G'Day World podcast, 26 November 2004 on The Podcast Network. Source Social Bookmarking -- Term A popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of "folksonomy" techniques on the Internet or Intranet. Other than web page bookmarks, services specialized to a specific subject or format - feeds, books, videos, music, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. - can be found. Social bookmarking is also part of Social News Sites like Reddit. Source: Wikipedia Social Network -- Term Social software specifically focused on the building and verifying of online social networks for whatever purpose. There are over three hundred known social networking web sites. MySpace, Facebook and Friendster are some examples. Source. Social Software -- Term Software that enables people to connect and interact through computer-mediated communication. Spencer, Graham -- Wikis Co-founder of JotSpot with Joe Kraus. Spurl -- Social Bookmarking A social bookmarking service. http://www.spurl.net Squidoo -- Service A website launched in October 2005. It is a platform designed to make it easy for anyone to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about. Squidoo, a free service, came out of beta testing in March 2006. The Long Tail -- Term The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail. As the costs of production and distribution fall, especially online, there is now less need to lump products and consumers into one-size-fits-all containers. In an era without the constraints of physical shelf space and other bottlenecks of distribution, narrowly-target goods and services can be as economically attractive as mainstream fare. Source. Tim O'Reilly -- Person Coined web 2.0 in 2003 TrustRank -- Term Link analysis technique for semi-automatically separating useful webpages from spam. (Gyöngyi et al. 2004) Wikipedia. Tweet -- Micro-blogging A micro-blog post via Twitter. Twitosphere -- Micro-blogging The universe of Twitter users. Also: Twitterverse. Twitter -- Micro-blogging Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) via SMS, instant messaging, the Twitter website, or an application such as Twitterrific. Twitter was founded in October 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp. Source: Wikipedia. Twitterer -- Micro-blogging One who Twitters. Twittermob -- Micro-blogging A group of people who organize a spontaneous real-world gathering via Twitter. Twitterrhea -- Micro-blogging Sending too many Twitter messages. Twitterverse -- Micro-blogging The universe of Twitter users. Also: Twitosphere. Wiki -- Term Online collaboration model and tool that allows any user to edit some content of webpages through a simple browser. Source. Wikipedia -- Wikis A multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers; its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the web site. The name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Its primary servers are in Tampa, Florida, with additional servers in Amsterdam and Seoul. Source: . Youtube -- Videos YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. Videos can be rated; the average rating and the number of times a video has been watched are both published. Source Zennström, Niklas -- Person Co-founder of Skype.