VOCAB WORD |
SYNONYM |
DESCRIPTION |
WIKIPEDIA |
aggregator
| software that gathers your subscriptions
| thousands of Web pages are now tagged as RSS inviting you to subscribe to them so that your personal blog page
contains all your subscriptions automatically
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blog
| Web journal
| web log (or weblog) that functions as a personal diary on a certain topic or reflective of a specific person
| link
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podcast
| audio/video files you subscribe to
| MP3 files and other audio files have been posted on the Web for years; what is unique about podcasts is that you SUBSCRIBE to a topic so that
as new files are created on the topic, the audio files are automatically sent to your MP3 player
| link
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RSS
| real simple syndocation (others interpretations exist)
| when a Web page is RSS enable, you have the ability to subscribe to it so that your blog or your iPod is autoomatically and automagically updated when new content is added
| link
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wiki
| a shared writing Web page
| you might say that a wiki is a blog that is altered and written by a number of people
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