1.

Blog

A blog (a truncation of "weblog")[1] is a discussion or informational website published on

the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[9] on 17 December 1997. The short form,
"blog", was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase
we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[10][11][12] Shortly
thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog",
meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger"
in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the
terms.[13]

2. Wikis

A wiki is a knowledge base website on which users collaboratively modify content and
structure directly from the web browser.

The online encyclopedia project Wikipedia is the most popular wiki-based website, and is
one of the most widely viewed sites in the world, having been ranked in the top ten since
2007 Wikipedia is not a single wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis, with each
one pertaining to a specific language.

Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally
described wiki as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". Wiki" is a
Hawaiian word meaning "quick".

3. Status-update services

A Facebook status is an update feature which allows users to discuss their thoughts,
whereabouts, or important information with their friends. Similar to a tweet on the social
networking site Twitter, a status is usually short and generally gives information without
going into too much detail.

4. Social Book Marking

Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share
bookmarks of web documents.[1][2] Many online bookmark management services have
launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social
bookmarking" and "tagging". Tagging is a significant feature of social bookmarking
systems, allowing users to organize their bookmarks and develop shared vocabularies
known as folksonomies.

5. Social Network sites

A social networking site is also known as a social networking website or social website. A
social networking service (also social networking site, or SNS or social media) is an online
platform which people use to build social networks or social relationship with other people
who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life
connections to create a public profile and interact with other users on the website. Social
networking sites usually have a new user input a list of people with whom they share a
 connection and then allow the people on the list to confirm or deny the connection. After
connections are established, the new user can search the networks of connections to make
more connections.

One can categorize social-network services into four types:[4]

 socializing social network services used primarily for socializing with existing friends (e.g.,
Facebook)
 online social networks are decentralized and distributed computer networks where users
communicate with each other through internet services.
 networking social network services used primarily for non-social interpersonal communication
(e.g., LinkedIn, a career- and employment-oriented site)
 social navigation social network services used primarily for helping users to find specific
information or resources (e.g., Goodreads for books)

6. Media-Sharing Sites

A website that enables users to store and share their multimedia files (photos, videos,
music) with others. Such sites are often freemium based, providing a modest amount of
free storage and paid subscriptions for greater storage. The media is played/viewed from
any Web browser and may be selectively available via password or to the general public.

A media sharing site can also be used to back up files. See cloud storage, photo sharing
site and video sharing site. Media sharing sites allow you to upload your photos, videos
and audio to a website that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. You can then
share that media with the world or just a select group of friends. Many media sharing sites
also allow you to place media on other sites by 'embedding'. This is where you copy and
paste a small snippet of HTML code into the web page and it tells your browser where to
find the media. This makes the media appear like it's on the new website.

7. Virtual-World Content

A virtual world is a computer-based online community environment that is designed and

shared by individuals so that they can interact in a custom-built, simulated world. Users
interact with each other in this simulated world using text-based, two-dimensional or three-
dimensional graphical models called avatars. Avatars are graphically rendered using
computer graphics imaging (CGI) or any other rendering technology. Individuals control
their avatars using input devices like the keyboard, mouse and other specially designed
command and simulation gadgets. Today's virtual worlds are purpose-built for
entertainment, social, educational, training and various other purposes.

All virtual worlds possess the qualities of persistence and interactivity. This enables the
users to explore the inherent benefits of socialization and allows them to study human
nature and users' abilities.

A virtual world may also be called a digital world.