Blogs, Microblogs, and Wikis

Web logs or blogs (Personal Web sites) :

• to keep in touch with friends and family
• Blog postings are timestamped
• Readers of these sites are allowed to comment
• Some blogs are with personal information other focus on information about hobby or theme
• Although most are written by individual bloggers, there are also group blogs
• Two of the most widely used are Blogger and WordPress

Microblog :

• publishers short sentences
• to keep friends and other contancts up-to-date
• most popular microblogging site, Twitter
• Twitter enables to add new content from browser, instant messaging application, or a mobile phone

Wiki :

• to allow visitors to fill in missing information
• the simplicity of editing and publishing through wiki software
• support collaborative writing in which there isn't a single expert author
• the most famous example is wikipedia