Social Media Glossary

Adsense: Googles payperclick,contextrelevantprogram available to blog and webpublishers as a way to create revenue.Adwords: The advertiser program that populates the Adsense program. The advertiserpays Google on a per click basis.
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Social Media GlossarySOCIAL MEDIA TERMS from Livingstonbuzz.com andhttp://www.converstations.com/blogging_glossary.htmlAdsense:Googlespayperclick,contextrelevantprogramavailabletoblogandwebpublishersasawaytocreaterevenue.Adwords:TheadvertiserprogramthatpopulatestheAdsenseprogram.TheadvertiserpaysGoogleonaperclickbasis.Aggregator – A web application or program that retrieves news (syndication) feeds fromother sources and combines them, potentially sorting them by date, title, author or topic.AJAX:Anacronym(AsynchronousJavaScriptandXML)representingawaytocreaterealtimeWebapplications.Akismet:CommentspamfilterpopularwithWordPressblogs.Anonoblog:Ablogsiteauthoredbyapersonorpersonswhodontpublishtheirname.API:Anacronym(ApplicationProgrammingInterface)representingacomputersystemorapplicationallowingforrequeststobemadeofitbyotherprogramsandallowsfordatatobeexchanged.ThinkprogrammablewebArchives:Mostoftenanindexpage,oftenorganizingpostsorentriesbyeithercategoryordate.AstroTurfing:Afakegrassrootspushtogeneratebuzzorinterestinaproduct,service,oridea.Oftenthismovementismotivatedbyafeeorgifttothewriterofapostorcommentormaybewrittenunderaphonypseudonym.Atom: A popular feed format used for syndicating content. 1Atom Feed – A syndication feed format first proposed by Sam Ruby in 2003. It wasdesigned to work better with XML-structured content as well as HTML or text content,and includes category, publication and summary information.Atom Publication Protocol (AtomPub) – A set of standards that define how Atom feedscan be used to publish blog content and similar data to the Web, although it is also beingused increasingly to build applications that treat the Web like a database.Avatar: A graphical image or likeness that replaces a photo of the author of the contenton a blog.Badge – An image, usually squared and displayed on a blog, which signifies theblogger’s participation in an event, contest, or social movement.Blog (Short for Weblog)An article published via either a content management system or through an application toa specialized Web server to appear on the Internet. Blogs cover myriad topics, frompolitical commentary to technical discussions to personal journals and even weatherreports. The term blog also refers to a collection of such articles available from a givenblog site.Blog Post/Entry: Content published on a blog. Entries may include pictures orembedded videos and links URLs for online sources used.Blogroll: An assembly of blog URLs – blogs that the blogger reads regularly – displayedat the sidebar of the blogBlogs: A website where individual(s) provide entries of any type of content from videoand podcasts to traditional text and photos in order to inform or create discussions;presented in reverse chronological orderBlogosphere: The collection of all of the blogs currently published on the Web, alongwith the infrastructure that publishes them. According to Blogscope, there are currently30 million blogs with 140 million posts on the Web, as of October 2008.Boardreader: An aggregator of message boards and forum discussionsBuddy List: A collection of friends and contacts names and Web links that are usuallystored on a central database on the Web. While initially developed for Instant Messagingservices, buddy lists have become an integral feature of most social networking services.Comments: Replies or opinions in reference to the topic at hand; usually left on blogposts 2Compete: Provides web analytics (i.e. unique monthly visitors to the site) and enablespeople to compare and contrast up to 5 different sites at a time“Do-good” networks: Online communities aimed at making the world a better placeDrupal: An open-source community management system, built around the use of news(syndication) feeds and user-based code, that is becoming one of the most popular toolsfor creating community and social networking sites. Drupal modules provide extensiveadditional functionality that make it possible to use Drupal for everything from politicalsites to newspaper front-ends to airline reservation systems.Flickr: The largest photography social networking site on in the Internet. Flickr has morethan 2 billion photographs online, with 3 million to 5 million new photographs addeddaily. Vancouver-based Ludicorp started the service in 2004, and Yahoo! acquired it in2005.Groundswell: A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they needfrom each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations. (Charlen ...