Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. The word was first coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article. Examples: innocentive – wikipedia [...]

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Social Network

by leelefever A social network service uses software to build online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most services are primarily web-based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo and Summit

The second Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco takes the pulse of the Web ecosystem and looks to its future, training a spotlight across the Web 2.0 universe to illuminate how the Internet Revolution is being created and delivered. Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco happens April 22-25, 2008 at Moscone West. Other dates are: Web 2.0 [...]

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Wikipedia

video: “Truth in Numbers” “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” J. Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki [...]

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Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became [...]

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