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Find out the difference between social networking and social bookmarking and what distinguishes a distributed web portal from a regular old-fashioned web portal.
What is Crowdsourcing?
What is Crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is a term meaning work being done by a "crowd" of people, with the crowd generally being the public at large.
Games 2.0
Games 2.0 refers to the new browser-based games and the social gaming genre being built by social networks like Facebook.
Geotagging
Geotagging has been made popular by the increased use of Internet capable mobile devices with built-in GPS functionality.
Micro-blogging
A definition of micro-blogging.
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