Web Technologies and Concepts

The practice of creating networks of friends, associates, and clients who can discuss topics in common. Online social networking is a powerful concept used by individuals and businesses worldwide

• social networking

• social media

• online forums

• digital communication

A Web 2.0 implementation by which Web data is contextualized with the addition of machine-readable metadata

• semantic Web

• social Web

• static Web

• dynamic Web

A problem-solving model in which a task ordinarily performed by one person is outsourced to a large group or community in order to obtain and analyze large amounts of data

• crowdsourcing

• outsourcing

• brainstorming

• data mining

A method by which a blogger receives notification when other bloggers link to his or her blog entry.

• pingback

• trackback

• linkback

• blogroll

A Web page that integrates content and scripts from multiple Websites to create new applications

• mashup

• widget

• portal

• iframe

A method of person-to-person communication in which users type short text messages from mobile phones

• text messaging

• email communication

• video calling

• social media messaging

The practice of categorizing online content through tags

• taxonomy

• folksonomy

• metadata

• classification

The integration of telephony and data technologies.

• convergence

• divergence

• segmentation

• isolation

A business trend that seeks to simplify and integrate all forms of communication. Also, a set of technologies that enable voice to be converted into text, and vice versa

• unified communications (UC)

• digital communication

• cloud communication

• integrated messaging

A computer-based method of communication in which users can type and view messages sent to one or more recipients, and view the responses immediately

• instant messaging (IM)

• email

• social media

• text messaging