Glossary of Web 2.0 terms

Please see Wikipedia.org for further explanations of these terms.

Blog a type of website usually maintained by an individual person and displayed in reverse chronological order (from newest to oldest). It can contain postings on a theme, event or topic and contain video and image material as well as text.

Mashups a mashup is a single web page which contains sub-sets of other web pages that can be conveniently placed together because it suits a particular purpose.

Metadata data about data, that is it describes the form and structure of underlying data and information content.

Microblog a form of blogging which allows small amounts of content to be loaded to a blogging website, usually at higher frequencies than a standard ...

Get Web 2.0 Knowledge Technologies and the Enterprise now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.