Vocabulary


 * Social networking**- webpages like facebook that's main purpose is social interaction over the internet.


 * Tags/tag cloud** - used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color.


 * Cloud computing**- keeping information on a server where u can get it on any computer like email.


 * Meme**- is a self-evident unit of cultural ideas


 * Social bookmarking**- Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them.

Really Simple Syndication
 * RSS/feed readers**- formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.


 * Creative Commons** -The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses for free to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.


 * Netiquette**- social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to blogs and forums.

Digital Immigrants- people who were there alive before the internet.
 * Digital Natives**- the kids who grew up with the internet


 * Spider**- a bug like program that goes out and searches for information through out the web


 * Cache**- is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier


 * Open Source Software**- free software that can have pluggins made by 3d party sources

Broadband -high data rate Internet access—typically contrasted using 56k modem
 * Dial-up** - internet attached from a phone jack


 * Digital Divide** - gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all.