A tweet is a short message sent via Twitter, a social network most often employing cell phones or instant messaging platforms. You can see tweets on a map of the world at http://twittervision.com/

So, if you're anything like me, you read a dozen emails, blog or Facebook posts everyday with a link which begins with "http://tinyurl.com" What is that all about?

"Noogler" is a term reserved for new Google employees

Vertical search, as the name suggests, refers to search engines which focus on a specific industry or topic. Examples of vertical search engines include Kosmix, Healthline and Spock a "person" search engine which allows you to keyword-search your neighbor (the Spock website claims to have 100 million already indexed).

Spock is still in beta.

A bloglet refers to a very brief blog posting usually no more than a sentence (or two) in length. Like this.

Honey monkeys are software used to detect malware and exploits in use by hackers even if these exploits have not been publicly reported. These automated applications simulate an average web user but collect data about any software that is installed or system changes that are made by a website.

AJAX is a collection of technologies that pass information from the application to the server without the intrusion and load time typically associated with most form-based web applications.

What is a mashup? Put simply, a mashup combines a variety of online information - data, images, maps, products and so on - into one web application. But where did they come from and what do you do with them?