Online chat .
Online chat can refer to any kind of communication over the internet, but is primarily meant to refer to direct one-on-one chat or text-based group chat (also known as ˜synchronous conferencing').
Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
Really Simple Syndication is an online file format used to let people know when a certain website or part of a website has been updated with new content, for example news bulletins.
Social networking websites.
On social networking websites people can create profiles about themselves and then communicate with others and form online networks. Examples include MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster and LinkedIn.
User-generated content (UGC).
User-generated content is the production of content by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field. User-generated content refers to material such as the daily news, encyclopaedias and other references, movie and product reviews, videos and phones, as well as articles on any subject, all of which have been traditionally written by editors, journalists and academics in the past. User-generated content is mostly available on the web via blogs and wikis.
Wikis.
A wiki is a page or collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content.
3 Overview of internet users.
Use of the internet is typically the first step to engagement with the digital economy and trends in internet use show the majority of Australians (11.3 million in 2007)4 are logging onto the internet during any week. Data collected from Roy Morgan Single Source indicates that 87 per cent of people aged 14 and over had used the internet and 73 per cent had access to the internet in the home. Approximately 40 per cent of the total population aged 14 and over were estimated to be heavy internet users, defined as using the internet at least once a day and a further 29 per cent were medium internet users, defined as using the internet one to seven times a week (Figure 1).