Aggregator - website combining multiple web feeds (e.g. Google News, NewsNow)
Blog - diary format website
CMS - Content Management System, used by publishers to update and maintain websites
Commercial Blogging - Publishers who focus solely on blogging (Gawker Media, Shiny Media)
Digg - News site which lists news based on user recommendations
DRM - Digital Rights Management, technology used to protect music and other data online
Flikr - The leading photo-sharing website
Google News - Leading News Aggregation website
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language, the prre-eminent markup language used to code web pages
Keyword - word used to facilitate online search
Meta Tag - keyword(s) that aid search that appear in HTML code
MP3 - A digital audio encoding format
Multi-Platform - distributing editorial and advertising content to a range of 'platforms' (Web, Mobile etc.)
MySpace - Leading social networking website
Online Forum - a facility for holding online discussions
Page Impression - a request to load a single page of a web site
RSS Feed - News Syndication software
Social Network Website - Websites the focus on social networks of users (MySpace, Friendster etc.)
Source Code - The coding underlying a web page, located by clicking 'view' and 'source'
The Long Tail - Term used to describe the new post-dotcom economics
UGC - User Generated Content; content produced by users
Unique Users - Most common measure of website popularity
Viral Marketing - marketing using online social networks, or simply via unsolicited email
Web 2.0 - Term used to refer to the new generation of web sites (MySpace, Digg, YouTube etc.)
Webinar - Term used to describe corporate seminar video placed on web sites
XML - A markup language that allows data to be shared to many different formats
YouTube - Leading video sharing website
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