Web 2.0 - The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Examples of web 2.0 sites include social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, blogging sites like blogger.com, and hosting services.
Participatory Culture - Participatory culture is a neologism in reference of, but opposite to a Consumer culture — in other words a culture in which the public do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers. The term is most often applied to the production or creation of some type of published media.
Peering - Peering is the arrangement of traffic exchange between internet service providers (ISP's). Larger ISPs with their own backbone networks agree to allow traffic from other large ISPs in exchange for traffic on their backbones.
Digital Natives - A digital native is a young person who was born in or during the general introduction of digital technology, and by interacting with this technology at an early age, they stand a greater chance of understanding its concepts.
Democratisation - The action taken by a person or group of people to make something Democratic.
We - Think - Explores how the web is changing are world creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and colaborate, ideas and information.
Interactivity - In computers, interactivity is the dialog that occurs between a human being (or possibly another live creature) and a computer program. On the World Wide Web, you not only interact with the browser (the Web application program) but also with the pages that the browser brings to you.
The Long Tail - This refers to the statistcal property than a larger share of population rests within the tail of the probability distribution than observed under a 'normal' distribution.
Wikinomics - Explores how some companys in the early 21st century have used mass collaboration and open source techonology to be successful.
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