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I’m getting really geeky with this post, if you are a web/computer geek this will be boring to you. For the rest of the population that don’t spend hours on the Internet we need to make sure they understand what we are saying. Like text messaging or lingo used in chat rooms the web 2.0 world comes with thousands of abbreviations and words that can get you confused if you are new around here.

Starting with the basics, many websites are incorporating Web 2.0 abbreviations that makes it hard for some to find what they want around the web, one example is the photo sharing/community type site Flickr.com. The correct word would be spelled “flicker”, by dropping the “e” in this word they have created a popular website that it may not be hard to find but surely is hard to spell. The trend is spreading all around the web, take my site as an example, my name is Luis if I want people to pronounce it the way it sounds in Spanish you would have to say Lwees, that is why I selected this web 2.0 word for my site.

My recommendation for you that are not used to this way of putting words, is to find a good web search engine and trust it with your searches. I like Google, if I try to get to Flickr by typing the web address in the browser website bar, I would never make it. On top of that you are risking getting into a fishing site that mocks what you are looking for and get all sorts of spyware or viruses on your computer.

I understand that in the first three paragraphs there may be words that don’t make sense to you, it is my intention to teach you what they mean and other words you will find around the web. Geek is a word that used to be interpreted as something bad, but not anymore, I find to be called geek many times a day and I carry my title with respect and I’m very proud of it. Lingo by definition means; a vocabulary used by a particular group, it may have other meanings but for web interactions this is exactly what we mean.

A chat room is a place on the web where people get together to write whatever is on their mind, usually there are expected by friends or members of the community but a lot of times you can just find a website with your interests and a chat room that you can register and start chatting with people all around the world. Web 2.0 is very broad, in fact is a discussion that lives right now on the web. Some think we are in the Web 2.0 era, while others say that we are approaching the Web 2.0 era.

My opinion is that we are living in the Web 2.0 era and for me Web 2.0 means a phase or transition from the static base of web pages to the fluidity and interaction of websites today. When we first saw the web it was just information on a place or address that gave some sort of knowledge, news, or advertisement, as opposed to what we have now which is rich content that directs you to information interconnected with other people and other countries. This is a concept of it at a very high level and is my personal opinion, I consider myself a geek but an authority that makes definitions standard, take it and modify it as you learn what the is the web.

Right now you are reading a post on a blog, a Blog is a web log that summarizes information, holds diaries of particular types of information, or registers history from a non-official point of view. Is hard to explain, this is my personal believe of what a Blog is, it may mean something else to other people. I love technology and I love to talk about technology, that is why I own a blog and write on it different information that may be useful to other around the technology field.

A post is an article in a blog, and some blogs rely in the community and their questions to display their information. A community on a blog is made of the blogger, readers, contributors, etc. the blogger is the person in charge and maybe the owner of the blog. While contributors are those who have permission to add content to any specific blog, readers are often encourage to participate give their opinions and ask questions. Also, the community and the readers play an important role in the blogger’s life, some readers take an active approach to correct mis-information posted by the blogger.

I can write for months about this very same subject, I’m going to invite you to read some article I found around the web on definition of terms related to what I consider is the Web 2.0 era. The first is from SFGate.com, the article is Web 2.0 Words, and it explains some terms from around the web that you will need to survive when searching and understanding the web. The second is the website socialmedia.wetpaint.com, the article is Web 2.0 Lingo, another source of great definitions that will make your life incredibly easy.

Hope you find this article interesting, let me know if you want more of these type of article in the future and I will work hard on bringing over the best of web and how to understand it. Find more cool information about technology here in www.lwees.com, thanks for reading.