Photo Sharing

Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user’s digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately).

This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images.

The term can also

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Podcasting

Well, like the term broadcast, podcast can refer either to the content itself or to the method by which the content is syndicated; the latter is also called podcasting.

The content can be accessed using any computer capable of playing media files. As more mobile devices other than iPods became able to synchronize

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RSS – Feed

RSS = Really Simple Syndication, is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works, such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video, in a standardized format.

A Really Simple Syndication’s document (which is called a “feed”, “web feed”, or “channel”) includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such

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Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively and/or collaboratively become a folksonomy.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want

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LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site, which’s mainly used for professional networking. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone to become a connection.

This list of connections can

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Facebook

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact

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Social Networking

In its simplest form, a social network is a map of all of the relevant ties between the nodes being studied. The network can also be used to determine the social capital of individual actors. These concepts are often displayed in a social network diagram, where nodes are the points and ties are the lines.

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Blogging

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A

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Social Media

…. And social media was born!

But, the question is: what is social media?

Several definitions have been written; several opinions have been expressed, in several languages and dialects. I think, it isn’t really relevant how you’ld like to define social media because one thing for sure that social media

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Web 2.0

First thing first: What is Web 2.0?

I think, it’s easier to understand Web 2.0 by compering it with Web 1.0 (also known as World Wide Web). As we’ve all known that the web 1.0 is a very large set of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

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