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Chapter 1: Social Computing
way to communicate important information to the readers. Some common features found on a blog are
RSS feeds, comments, and content tagging. Chapter 5 explores blogs in more detail.
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Wikis
As one of the most popular ways to create and maintain documentation or information with large groups
of people, wikis have become a very popular Web 2.0 technology. There are now wikis such as Wikipedia
that have grown to be used for maintaining and managing references for millions of pages. Wikis can also
provide links to other parts of the documentation by using standard tokens. Tokens are similar to HTML
markup with the fact that they modify the look of text they surround. Some common features of wikis
are content, search, and version history. Chapter 4 will investigate the buzz surrounding wikis.
Mashups
Mashups are still growing in popularity, but they are a very powerful way to display data from different
sources with many types of visualizations, such as a list of locations and a Virtual Earth map. Mashups
are discussed in chapter 9.
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