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Social media
Social media is the medium through which internet users can contact and share information over the internet.
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Microcasting
Internet; Social media
The description of small, focused audio and video programmes delivered directly to a specialised audience on a program-by-program basis rather than a channel-by-channel basis. As opposed to ...
Crowdsourcing
Internet; Social media
Based on open-source software, Crowdsourcing is a technique in which a task is broadcast to a wide network of participants. The best results from the assigned task are rewarded by moving ahead to the ...
Folksonomy
Internet; Social media
A collaboratively generated, open-ended labelling system that enables Internet users to categorise content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links. The freely chosen labels — called tags ...
Mash-up
Internet; Social media
A Web site or Web application that seamlessly combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience. Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public ...
Link blogs
Internet; Social media
A blog intended to share weblinks, typically found on a personal Web site or blog.
Link blitz
Internet; Social media
A targeted initiative to generate inbound links to a Web site or blog.
Link bait
Internet; Social media
Any content or feature within a Web site that is interesting enough to catch the viewers' attention. Link Bait "baits" viewers to link to the Web site from other Web sites.
