Web/Library 2.0 References for Further Reading

Web 2.0 Articles

O'Reilly, T. (2005). What Is Web 2.0, Design Patterns and Business Models for the
Next Generation of Software.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is- web-20.html(accessed February 25, 2007)

Porter, J. (2007). Introduction to Web 2.0
http://www.squidoo.com/introtoweb20/ (accessed February 25, 2007)

Stone, B (March 26, 2006). The New Wisdom of the Web. Newsweek
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12015774/site/newsweek/?page=4 (accessed February 25, 2007)

Fallows, J (November 6, 2005). A Journey to the Center of Yahoo. New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/business/yourmoney/06techno.html?ei=5088&en=11aa3a8e097005a7&ex=1288933200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print (accessed February 25, 2007)

Anderson, C. (October, 2004). The Long Tail. Wired, October 2004.www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html (accessed February 25, 2007).

Sifry, D. State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth [Weblog entry]. Sifry'sAlerts blog. (April 17, 2006). http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000432.html (accessed February 25, 2007)

Web 2.0 “Applications”

6CiteULike - http://www.citeulike.org/
A social bookmarking service for academics. Instead of letting users catalog web pages (like Del.icio.us) or photographs (like Flickr) it specialises in academic articles, and provides specific tools for that purpose.

Amazon - www.amazon.com/
An American electronic commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. It was one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet. Amazon also owns Alexa Internet, a9.com, and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

b2evolution - http://b2evolution.net/
A multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is available without charge. François Planque forked b2evolution from version 0.6.1 of b2\cafelog.

Backpack - www.backpackit.com/
A simple web-based service that allows you to make pages with to-do lists, notes, files, and images. Backpack also features a Calendar and Reminders that can be sent via email or to your cell phone at predefined times. Tagging pages enables grouping of related pages together.

Basecamp - www.basecamphq.com/
An online tool used for project collaboration tailored to improve the communication between people working together; includes charts, graphs, stats, or reports.

Evergreen Open ILS Project - http://www.open-ils.org/
An enterprise-grade open-source Integrated Library System (ILS) created by the Georgia Public Library Service to support Georgia Library PINES, a consortium of over 250 public libraries. Evergreen was built from the ground up as a flexible, fault-tolerant system capable of supporting libraries of all sizes. Boasting a myriad of standards-compliant methods to access and control data, Evergreen is a robust platform that evolves with the needs of even the most complex library system or consortium.

BlogBridge - http://www.blogbridge.com/
An open source blog and Java-based RSS new feed aggregator code that runs on all computer platforms.

Blogger - http://www.blogger.com/
A weblog publishing system created by Pyra Labs in 1999 who were bought by Google in 2003.

Bloglines - http://www.feedburner.com/
A web-based news aggregator for aggregating weblogs and RSS feeds that can be used in place of a desktop client. In February 2005 Bloglines was acquired by Ask Jeeves for an undisclosed sum

Blogware - http://home.blogware.com/
A tool for creating editing, and managing a blog. Allows users to share pictures, video, links, documents, newsletters, opinions, etc.

del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us/
A social bookmarking, social software web service for storing and sharing web bookmarks. The site came online in late 2003 and was developed by Joshua Schachter, co-maintainer of Memepool. According to del.icio.us/doc/about: Everything posted to del.icio.us is publicly viewable; it is not a tool for storing private bookmark collections. Many people use del.icio.us to publish "linkblogs" on their weblogs.

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/
A book that is made up of photographs of individuals along with their names. Facebooks are often published at the start of the academic year by the administrations of colleges and universities, with the intention of helping students, faculty, and staff to get to know each other better. ...

FeedBurner - http://www.feedburner.com/
Best known for its Atom-to-RSS conversion: you give it an Atom feed URL (e.g. the one you have in a Blogger site), and you get a URL that contains the up-to-date RSS version of it. FeedBurner actually can convert from and to any version of RSS or Atom.

Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/
A digital photo sharing website and web services suite. It was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver, Canada company founded in 2002. In March 2005, both Flickr and Ludicorp were bought by Yahoo!. For example of a Library application of Flicker: http://www.flickr.com/people/sjcpl/.

Google Code Blog - http://code.google.com/
A list of tools (“gadgets”) for integrating Google’s open-source developer's kit into websites.

Library Elf - http://www.libraryelf.com/
An Internet-based tool for keeping track of what's due, overdue and ready for pickup. Users can keep track of one or more library accounts in one place and receive reminders (sometimes called pre-overdue or early notification). Reminders are sent when the user wants it -- before items are due (up to seven days advance notice, weekly notice or everyday reminders). For families or anyone who'd like reminders before an item is due (user-selectable number of days notice).

LibraryThing - http://www.librarything.com/
An online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.

LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/
An Internet social network service, used mostly for business connections. It has over 2.5 million registered users, including 630,000 in Europe and 170,000 in Asia.

Meebo - http://www.meebo.com/
A web based IM that lets you log into your IM networks from any computer with a browser and internet connection with no firewall issues. It employs technologies (like AJAX) to make it act more like a desktop application, which dramatically improves usability. Many users enjoy the benefits of a native DHTML application, as it does not consume as many system resources as a Java applet (such as ICQ2Go or Yahoo Web Messenger).

Microsoft Office Live - www.officelive.com/
An Internet-based software service designed for small businesses with less than ten employees launched on February 15, 2006, and is part of Microsoft's Windows Live initiative. The software was released on November 16, 2006 and is currently only available to residents of the United States. In November 2006, the service expanded (in a beta version) to France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan.

Movable Type - http://www.movabletype.org/A proprietary weblog publishing system developed by California-based Six Apart. It supports most popular weblogging features, including user accounts, comments, trackbacks, categories, and themes, and is extensible through a large library of third-party plug-ins. It is free for use by a single author with no more than three distinct blogs, with paid licenses required for more extensive personal, commercial, educational, and non-profit users. The term “moveable type” was first used by Gutenberg in the 15th century; each letter being on a separate stem.

MySpace - www.myspace.com/
A free service that uses the Internet for online communication through an interactive network of photos, weblogs, user profiles, e-mail, web forums, and groups, as well as other media formats. This all-inclusive service is sometimes called a social networking interface. MySpace is a very active site, and additions and new features are being added constantly.

Rojo - http://www.rojo.com/
Rojo means "RSS with mojo." Rojo is free web-based news aggregator and social network. It may be used for browsing and discovering weblogs and other sources of web syndication. On September 6, 2006 Rojo was bought by Six Apart. President Chris Alden became executive vice president of Six Apart and general manager of Movable Type. CTO Aaron Emigh became executive vice president and general manager of core technologies.

Second Life - http://secondlife.com/
Second Life (abbreviated to SL) is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 4,241,507 people from around the globe. SL was developed by Linden Lab, a downloadable client program enables its users, called "Residents", to interact with each other through motional avatars, providing an advanced level of a social network service combined with general aspects of a metaverse. Residents can explore, meet other Residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and buy items (virtual property) and services from one another.

Squidoo - http://www.squidoo.com/browse/homepage/
Launched in October 2005 by author, speaker, and notable blogger Seth Godin, Squidoo is a platform designed to make it easy for anyone, for free, to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about. Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses --single pages that highlights one person's point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Emphasis is placed on recommending and pointing to content on the web. A lensmaster (users who create lenses) uses the tools available online to provide links, feeds, abstracts, and lists to users who are trying to make sense of a topic. For example, a single lens could point to Flickr photos, Google maps, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos, and other links. Lensmasters are encouraged to promote personal agendas, expertise, causes, products, and opinions.

Ta-da Lists - www.tadalist.com/
A website that allows free subscribers to keep track of all the little things needed to get done. It enables users to: make lists for other people (co-workers, friends, family), share lists with the world ("My favorite movies of 2004"), and to subscribe to lists in RSS.

Technorati - http://www.technorati.com/
An internet search engine focused on the world of weblogs. As of June 2005, Technorati indexes over 11 million weblogs. Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Trillian - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
a multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows created by Cerulean Studios that can connect to multiple IM programs from one client, such as AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Bonjour, and Jabber and Skype networks (the latter four with Trillian Pro which allows for additonal plug-ins). The name “Trillian” is a reference to Tricia McMillan; a fictional character from Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/
A Web-based, free-content multilingual encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers around the world and sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. It has editions in roughly 200 different languages (about 100 of which are active) and contains entries both on traditional encyclopedic topics and on almanac, gazetteer, and current events topics. Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible. Wikipedia is an example of a “Wiki” - anybody can edit and add to an article. Wiki in Hawaiian means “quick.”

WordPress - http://wordpress.org/
a web publishing system (a.k.a. content management system) written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. WordPress is used to manage frequently-updated Web content, especially Weblogs. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is available free of charge.

Writeboard - www.writeboard.com/
A collaborative, free, web-based writing tool that allow users to save every edit, roll back to any version, and compare changes.

Writely - www.writely.com/
An online word-processing tool that allows users to create and edit documents which can then be shared for collaboration. The Ask Jeeves Desktop Search facilitates searching for documents within Writely.

YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/
A free video and photo sharing web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. The wide variety of site content includes movie and TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging. Videos can be rated; the average rating and the number of times a video has been watched are both published. Founded in February 2005 by three former employees of PayPal, the San Bruno-based service utilizes Adobe Flash technology to display video. The wide variety of site content includes movie and TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. Currently staffed by 67 employees,[1] the company was named TIME magazine's "Invention of the Year" for 2006.[2] In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google's stock. The deal closed on 13 November 2006.[3

Zoho Office Suite and Productivity Tools - http://www.zoho.com/
A web-based office suite including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, wiki, CRM, and other applications. It makes heavy use of the AJAX technology to allow a rich user interface to be used on web browsers. Most applications can be used free of charge. The Zoho Office Suite includes the following ‘applications’: Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, Zoho Projects, Zoho CRM, Zoho Creator, Zoho Wiki, Zoho Planner, Zoho Notebook, Zoho Chat, Zoho Virtual Office, Zoho Challenge, and Zoho Polls.

Library 2.0/L2 – Definitions, Articles, Weblogs, and White papers

Library 2.0 Definitions

Crawford, W. (January, 2006). Library 2.0 and 'Library 2.0'. Cites and Insights, January 2006, 6.2.http://cites.boisestate.edu/civ6i2.pdf (accessed February 26, 2007).

Wikipedia contributors, "Library 2.0," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_2.0/ (accessed February 26, 2007).

Library 2.0 Blogs

ALA Blog
ALA TechSource Blog - http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/

ACRL Blog
Walter, Scott (swalter@uiuc.edu). What 2.0 Means to me [Weblog comment, March 10, 2006]. http://acrlblog.org/2006/03/10/what-20-means-to-me/ (accessed February 26, 2007).

Individual Blogs

Gray, Brian (bcg8@case.edu). Are you 2.0 yet? - http://briangray.alablog.org/

Casey, Michael (mcasey@gwinnettpl.org).LibraryCrunch: Service for the Next Generation Library: A Library 2.0 Perspective - http://www.librarycrunch.com/

Blyberg, John (john@blyberg.net). Blyberg.net - http://www.blyberg.net/

Michael Stephens (mstephens7@mac.com). Tame the Web – http://http://www.tametheweb.com//

Brevik, Thomas (thomas.brevik@gmail.com). Librarian 1.5 - http://lib1point5.wordpress.com/

Arrington, Michael. TechCrunch – http://http://www.techcrunch.com//

Lenine, Jenny (Jenny@TheShiftedLibrarian.com). The Shifted Librarian – http://http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com//

Farkas, Meredith (mgfarkas@gmail.com). Information Wants To Be Free - http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/

Hermann, Janie (jhermann@princetonlibrary.org).LibraryGarden - http://librarygarden.blogspot.com/

Library 2.0 Articles

Abram, Stephen (December, 2005). Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the 2.0 World. SirsiDynix One Source. http://www.dynix.com/institute/attach/MLS_20060222.pdf (accessed February 26, 2007).

Blyberg, John (john@blyberg.net). ILS Customer Bill of Rights, [Weblog comment, November 20, 2005].
http://www.blyberg.net/2005/11/20/ils-customer-bill-of-rights/ (accessed February 26, 2007).

Blyberg, John (john@blyberg.net). 11 reasons why Library 2.0 exists and matters, [Weblog comment, January 6, 2006].
http://www.blyberg.net/?s=11+reasons+why+Library+2.0+exists+and+matters&submit=GO
(accessed February 26, 2007).

Blyberg, John (john@blyberg.net). Find the Edge, Push It! [Weblog comment, March 22, 2006]
http://www.blyberg.net/?s=push+it (accessed February 26, 2007).

Blyberg, John (john@blyberg.net). On the L2 Train [[Weblog comment, April 17, 2006]
http://www.blyberg.net/?s=On+the+L2+Train+/ (accessed February 26, 2007).

Boog, J. (November, 2005). Library 2.0 Movement Sees Benefits in Collaboration with Patrons. Publish. http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1759,1881893,00.asp/ (accessed February 26, 2007).

Casey, M. E. & Savastinuk, L. C. (2006). Library 2.0. LibraryJournal.com. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6365200.html(accessed February 26, 2007).

Casey, Michael (mcasey@gwinnettpl.org). Working Towards a Definition of Library 2.0, [Weblog comment, December 21 October 2005].
http://www.librarycrunch.com/2005/10/working_towards_a_definition_o.html (accessed February 26, 2007).

Casey, Michael (mcasey@gwinnettpl.org). Whatever tools take us there are the ones we will use
[Weblog comment, December 6, 2005].
http://www.librarycrunch.com/2005/12/whatever_tools_take_us_there_a.html (accessed February 26, 2007).

Casey, M. & Stephens, M. Where Do We Begin? A Library 2.0 Conversation with Michael Casey, ALA TechSource Blog, [Weblog comment, December 2005.]
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2005/12/where-do-we-begin-a-library-20-conversation-with-michael-casey.html/ (accessed February 26, 2007).

Casey, M. & Stephens, M. Better Library Services for More People, ALA TechSource Blog, [Weblog comment, January 2006].
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/01/better-library-services-for-more-people.html/
(accessed February 26, 2007).

Casey, Michael & Savastinuk, Laura. Library 2.0: Service for the Next-generation Library, Library Journal, September, 2006. http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6365200.html/
(accessed February 26, 2007).

Gilroy, Kathleen (June, 2006). Five Techniques for Using Web 2.0 to Reinvent the Customer Relationship. http://library2.0.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2006/6/3/2003301.html/
(accessed February 27, 2007).

Gray, Brian (brian.c.gray@case.edu). Information Overload, E-Resources for Engineering Education
http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/ (accessed February 27, 2007).

Harris, Christopher. School Library 2.0, School Library Journal, May 1, 2006.
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6330755.html/ (accessed February 27, 2007).

Kille, Angela. Wikis in the Workplace: How Wikis Can Help Manage Knowledge in Library Reference Services
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~i385q/archive/kille/kille_wikis.html (accessed February 28, 2007).

Levine, Jenny (Jenny@TheShiftedLibrarian.com). Library 2.0 in the Real World. ALA TechSource Blog. [Weblog comment, January 30, 2006.]
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/01/library-20-in-the-real-world.html/
(accessed February 28, 2007).

Levine, Jenny (Jenny@TheShiftedLibrarian.com). Hello, Library (1.0) World! ALA TechSource Blog. [Weblog comment, October 10, 2005.]
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2005/10/hello-library-10-world.html/
(accessed February 28, 2007).

Maness, J. Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries. Webology, 3 (2), June, 2006. http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n2/a25.html/ (accessed February 28, 2007).

Miller, P.. Web 2.0: Building the New Library. Ariadne, No.45 October 2005.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/miller/ (accessed February 28, 2007).

Miller, P., Chad, K.. Do libraries matter? - The rise of Library 2.0, Talis, November 2005.
http://www.talis.com/downloads/white_papers/DoLibrariesMatter.pdf
(accessed February 28, 2007).

Miller, P. Library 2.0: The Challenge of Disruptive Innovation, Talis, February 2006.
http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/1304/ (accessed February 28, 2007).

Mossman, Katherine. Serving the Niche,” Library Journal, p. 38–40, July 15, 2006.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349032.html (accessed February 28, 2007).

Stephens, Michael (mstephens7@mac.com). 5 Suggestions for Upgrading to Library 2.0 (or Some Easy Steps to Get Started...Really). [Weblog comment, November 25, 2005].
http://libraryviews.blogsome.com/go.php?http://tametheweb.com/2005/11/5_suggestions_for_upgrading_to.html/ (accessed February 28, 2007).

Stephens, Michael. Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software, Library Technology Reports, 42:4.
http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/web-20-and-libraries-best-practices-for-social-software.html/
(accessed February 28, 2007).

Storey, Tom. Web 2.0 Where will the next generation Web take libraries? [Weblog comment, June 27, 2006.] http://drweb.typepad.com/dwdomain/2006/06/web_20_where_wi.html
(accessed February 28, 2007).

Farkas, Meredith (mgfarkas@gmail.com). A clear vision for the future of your library. [Weblog comment, December 10, 2005.]
http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2005/12/10/a-clear-vision-for-the-future-of-your-library/ (accessed February 28, 2007).

Fichter, Darlene (darlene.fichter@usask.ca) . Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and Radical Trust: A First Take . [Weblog comment, April 2, 2006.] http://library2.usask.ca/~fichter/blog_on_the_side/2006/04/web-2.html/ (accessed February 28, 2007).

Library 2.0 Books

Casey, Michael and Savastinuk, Laura. Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Service, Information Today Press, 2007.

Courtney, Nancy. Library 2.0 and Beyond: Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow's User, Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Library 2.0 Podcasts & Webcasts

Talking with Talis: Introducing the Library 2.0 Gang. Podcast with Thomas Brevik, Michael Casey, Ken Chad, Paul Miller, T. Scott Plutchak, Michael Stephens and Richard Wallis, (January 31, 2006).
http://talk.talis.com/archives/2006/02/introducing_the.html/ (accessed February 28, 2007).

Talking with Talis: Happy Birthday, Library 2.0! Podcast with Michael Casey, Paul Miller, Janie Hermann, and Richard Wallis, (September 28, 2006).
http://talk.talis.com/archives/2006/02/introducing_the.html/ (accessed February 28, 2007).

A SirsiDynix Institute Conversation: The 2.0 Meme - Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Librarian 2.0. Webcast with
Abram, S., Casey, M., Blyberg, J., & Stephens, M. (February 22, 2006).
http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/archive.php/ (accessed February 28, 2007).

Examples of Library 2.0 in Action

ALA Communities - http://communities.ala.org/
ALA Midwinter 2007 Wiki - http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2007/index.php/Main_Page/
Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan - http://www.aadl.org/
Case Forum - http://forum.case.edu/
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio - http://www.case.edu/
Case Western Reserve University, Kelvin Smith Library - http://library.case.edu/
Case Wiki - http://wiki.case.edu/Main_Page/
Hennepin County Library - www.hclib.org/pub
Hennepin County Library, Minnetonka, MN - http://www.hclib.org/
Herefordshire Libraries Map - http://www.libraries.herefordshire.gov.uk/libmap.htm
Plymouth State University Lamson Library - http://www.plymouth.edu/library/opac/search/harry+potter
Case Western Reserve News Blog - http://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/news/
Case Western Reserve Reference Weblog - http://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/
Case Western Reserve RSS Feeds - http://library.case.edu/ksl/rss/
Lansing Public Library Lansing, Illinois Podcasts - http://www.lansing.lib.il.us/podcast.htm/
Lending iPod Shuffles with Audio Books - http://shpl.suffolk.lib.ny.us/ipod/booklist.asp
Oberlin College Library IM - http://www.oberlin.edu/library/reference/im.html
Online presentation about - http://forum.lib.lsu.edu/slachem/showthread.php?t=126/
PennTags - tags.library.upenn.edu/
Planet Case – Aggregator of all Blog@Case postings - http://planet.case.edu/
Podcasts & Vodcasts - http://shpl.suffolk.lib.ny.us/ipod/booklist.asp
Second Life Library 2.0, infoisland.org blog - http://infoisland.org/
South Huntington Public Library, Huntington Station, NY - http://shpl.suffolk.lib.ny.us/
St. Joseph County Public Library, South Bend, Indiana - http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/
Superpatron - Friends of the Library, for the net - http://vielmetti.typepad.com/superpatron/
Superpatron Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Superpatron, Tools and scripts to improve on your local library - http://www.superpatron.com/
Wiki hosted subject guides - http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page

Web 2.0 Glossary

AJAX - shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This is meant to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability.

ASIN - The Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) is a product identification number used by Amazon.com and its partners. Despite the name, it is not a "standard" outside of Amazon.com. It is valid only for referring to products within the Amazon.com network of sites. Each product sold on Amazon.com is given a unique ASIN. For books with an ISBN, the ASIN and the ISBN are the same. However, due to the fact that new ISBN-13 numbers will be issued, this is likely to change. Books without an ISBN and other products are also assigned ASINs. ASINs are also used for other items used by Amazon.com (and subsidiaries), such as businesses in the yellow pages (on A9.com) and OpenSearch feeds.

Blog - a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs often provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of most early blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual although some focus on photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), or audio (podcasting), and are part of a wider network of social media. The term "blog" is derived from "Web log." "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. The term blog is commonly acredited to the web-journal pioneer Travis Petler. He coined the term on his personal blog in early September of 1997 while studying at Brown University. His use of the word spread to other college campus' where other weblogs were present. As of November 2006, blog search engine Technorati was tracking nearly 60 million blogs.

Blogosphere - the collective term encompassing all blogs as a community or social network. Many weblogs are densely interconnected; bloggers read others' blogs, link to them, reference them in their own writing, and post comments on each others' blogs. The term blogosphere was coined on September 10, 1999 by Brad L. Graham, as a joke. It was re-coined in 2002 by William Quick. In the Greek roots, "logo" means "word," and "sphere" can be interpreted as "world," resulting in "the world of words," the universe of discourse. The term also recalls the pronunciation and the meaning of the term "noosphere." Blogs themselves are essentially just the published text of an author's thoughts, whereas the blogosphere is a social phenomenon.

Distributed 1-click – A federated identity that provides a seamless Web 2.0 identity subsystem.

Dynamic language - Dynamic programming language (i.e. scripting language) is a term used broadly in computer science to describe a class of high level programming languages which share many common runtime behaviors that other languages might perform during compilation, if at all. These behaviors could include extension of the program, by adding new code, or by extending objects and definitions, or by modifying the type system, all during program execution. These behaviors can be emulated in nearly any language of sufficient complexity, but dynamic languages provide direct tools to make use of them.

FAQQLY – A social network created by UCLA senior David Liu. The site allows users to create their own FAQ page(s) so that other users can drop in to ask questions about other users’ lives, interests, etc. Users can also suggest topics by putting keywords in the “Ask Me About” section. Additionally, there’s a “Helps” section where users can ask a user for help with a specific problem. The site has around 2,500 members and feels like a cross between a blog, Yahoo Answers and MySpace. In the future, David plans to enable borrowing and lending; one could ask to borrow a DVD, for instance, and the site would track whether it had been returned. If they did want to drive growth, it would make sense to create MySpace widgets (”my latest questions on FAQQLY”).

Folksonomy - a user-generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags. Typically, folksonomies are Internet-based, but their use may occur in other contexts as well. The process of folksonomic tagging is intended to make a body of information increasingly easier to search, discover, and navigate over time. A well-developed folksonomy is ideally accessible as a shared vocabulary that is both originated by, and familiar to, its primary users. Two widely cited examples of websites using folksonomic tagging are Flickr and del.icio.us, although it has been suggested that Flickr is not a good example of folksonomy. Because folksonomies develop in Internet-mediated social environments, users can discover (generally) who created a given folksonomy tag, and see the other tags that this person created. In this way, folksonomy users often discover the tag sets of another user who tends to interpret and tag content in a way that makes sense to them. The result, often, is an immediate and rewarding gain in the user's capacity to find related content. Part of the appeal of folksonomy is its inherent subversiveness: when faced with the choice of the search tools that Web sites provide, folksonomies can be seen as a rejection of the search engine status quo in favor of tools that are created by the community. Folksonomy creation and searching tools are not part of the underlying World Wide Web protocols. Folksonomies arise in Web-based communities where special provisions are made at the site level for creating and using tags. These communities are established to enable Web users to label and share user-generated content, such as photographs, or to collaboratively label existing content, such as Web sites, books, works in the scientific and scholarly literatures, and blog entries.

Infoware - A term coined by Tim O'Reilly that is defined as websites such as Amazon.com that use commoditized server software such as LAMP to enable data (e.g. book comments and ratings) to be shared via a website, and as a result create value (e.g. other people's opinions of a particular book that you want to buy). The term infoware was first used in O'Reilly's talk on the subject at the Linux Kongress in Wurzburg in 1997, and later in talks such as one at ISPCON 98. It was written up and published as his chapter Hardware, Software, and Infoware in the book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution.

Mashup - (or mash it up) is a Jamaican Creole term meaning ‘to destroy’. In the context of reggae or ska music, it can take on a positive connotation and mean an exceptional performance or event. The term has also been used in hip-hop, especially in cities such as New York that have a high Jamaican population.

Meme - coined in 1976 by the zoologist and evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins, refers to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another. Dawkins said, Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. A meme propagates itself as a unit of cultural evolution and diffusion — analogous in many ways to the behavior of the gene (the unit of genetic information). Often memes propagate as more-or-less integrated cooperative sets or groups, referred to as memeplexes or meme-complexes. The idea of memes has proved a successful meme in its own right, gaining a degree of penetration into popular culture which relatively few modern scientific theories achieve. Proponents of memes suggest that memes evolve via natural selection — in a way very similar to Charles Darwin's ideas concerning biological evolution — on the premise that variation, mutation, competition, and "inheritance" influence their replicative success. For example, while one idea may become extinct, other ideas will survive, spread and mutate — for better or for worse — through modification. Meme-theorists contend that memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes which replicate the most effectively spread best; which allows for the possibility that successful memes might prove detrimental to their hosts.

P2P - A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.

Permalink - a URL that points to a specific blogging entry even after the entry has passed from the front page into the blog archives. Because a permalink remains unchanged indefinitely, its use avoids link rot. Most modern weblogging and content-syndication software systems, including Wordpress, Movable Type, LiveJournal, RapidWeaver, Pivot and Blogger, support such links. Other types of websites use permalinks, too, but the term itself is most common within the blogosphere. Permalink is a portmanteau word made from permanent link and is often simply stated so as to be human-readable.

REST - Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The term originated in a 2000 doctoral dissertation about the web written by Roy Fielding, one of the principal authors of the HTTP protocol specification, and has quickly passed into widespread use in the networking community. “ Representational State Transfer is intended to evoke an image of how a well-designed Web application behaves: a network of web pages (a virtual state-machine), where the user progresses through an application by selecting links (state transitions), resulting in the next page (representing the next state of the application) being transferred to the user and rendered for their use. ”
— Dr. Roy Fielding, Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures. REST strictly refers to a collection of architectural principles (described below). The term is also often used in a loose sense to describe any simple interface that transmits domain-specific data over HTTP without an additional messaging layer such as SOAP or session tracking via HTTP cookies. These two meanings can conflict as well as overlap. It is possible to design any large software system in accordance with Fielding's REST architectural style without using the HTTP protocol and without interacting with the world wide web. It is also possible to design simple XML+HTTP interfaces that do not conform to REST principles, and instead follow a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) model. The two different uses of the term REST cause some confusion in technical discussions. Systems that follow Fielding's REST principles are often referred to as RESTful; REST's most zealous advocates call themselves RESTafarians.

RSS - A family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts (e.g. blogliness). Users of RSS content use programs called feed 'readers' or 'aggregators': the user 'subscribes' to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed; the reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

Long Tail, The - The phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun with capitalized letters) was first coined by Chris Anderson in an October 2004 Wired magazine article to describe certain business and economic models such as Amazon.com or Netflix. The term long tail is also generally used in statistics, often applied in relation to wealth distributions or vocabulary use. The concept drew in part from an influential February 2003 essay by Clay Shirky, "Power Laws, Weblogs and Inequality" that noted that a relative handful of weblogs have many links going into them but "the long tail" of millions of weblogs may have only a handful of links going into them. Beginning in a series of speeches in early 2004 and culminating with the publication of a Wired magazine article in October 2004, Anderson described the effects of the long tail on current and future business models. Anderson later extended it into the book The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (2006). Anderson argued that products that are in low demand or have low sales volume can collectively make up a market share that rivals or exceeds the relatively few current bestsellers and blockbusters, if the store or distribution channel is large enough. The Long Tail is a potential market whereby the distribution and sales channel opportunities created by the Internet often enable businesses to tap into that market successfully. In the same sense, the user-edited internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has many low popularity articles that, collectively, create a higher quantity of demand than a limited number of mainstream articles found in a conventional encyclopedia such as the Encyclopædia Britannica. The total volume of low popularity items exceeds the volume of high popularity items.

Tagging - Tags, a type of metadata involving the association of descriptors with objects.

Trackback - One of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles. Some weblog software programs, such as Movable Type and Community Server, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published. The term is used colloquially for any kind of Linkback.