Key Terms

Review the following list of key terms:

• Blog (or weblog)— A website that posts periodic updates or new entries in a revolving, vertical queue of messages.

• Instant Messaging (IM)— A realtime messaging technique.

• Internet Relay Chat (IRC)— A protocol and network service for realtime text messaging.

• Peer-to-Peer (P2P)— A system for establishing direct connections between Internet users for purposes of sharing files.

• Resource Description Framework (RDP)— A semantic web framework.

• Semantic web— A set of technologies designed to provide information on the meaning of web data.

• Social networking site— One of several services that supports blogging, messaging, and other activities from a personal website.

• Web 2.0— A collection of tools that reflect a new vision of the interactive Web.

• Wiki— A form of easily edited, interactive website designed to support collaboration.

• WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)— A form of editing tool that displays a page as it will appear to the user.

• XHTML— An expression of HTML through XML schema.

• XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol)— An open source messaging protocol used with Jabber messaging technology.