Important Terms

Prosumer - producer/consumer, the phenomenon of creating and viewing simultaneously, sites that allow this are blogs, vlogs, youtube, etc. the consumer is also able to upload words/videos for others.

Peering - the sharing of internet connection to allow the fastest performance, this is most important at times when traffic is high.
A voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other for the exchanged traffic; instead, each derives revenue from its own customers. Motivations for peering:
Peering involves two networks coming together to exchange traffic with each other freely, and for mutual benefit. This 'mutual benefit' is most often the motivation behind peering, which is often described solely by "reduced costs for transit services". Other less tangible motivations can include:

• Increased redundancy (by reducing dependence on one or more transit providers).
• Increased capacity for extremely large amounts of traffic (distributing traffic across many networks).
• Increased routing control over your traffic.
• Improved performance (attempting to bypass potential bottlenecks with a "direct" path).
• Improved perception of your network (being able to claim a "higher tier").
• Ease of requesting for emergency aid (from friendly peers).

Collaboration - The internet allows people to contribute towards a subject, this allows niche interests as well to be widely discussed, and developed. Testing and communication can be easily carried out.
The low cost and nearly instantaneous sharing of ideas, knowledge, and skills has made collaborative work dramatically easier. Not only can a group cheaply communicate and test, but the wide reach of the Internet allows such groups to easily form in the first place, even among niche interests. An example of this is the free software movement in software development which produced GNU and Linux from scratch and has taken over development of Mozilla and OpenOffice.org (formerly known as Netscape Communicator and StarOffice).

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Ideagora - a place on the internet where people share ideas and solutions, Taposcott and Williams. 'Gora' means a place of assembly, therefore ideagora means a place for ideas. An example of this is message-boards, where people can discuss a subject and help each other through advice. This is also an example of prosumers, the advice is created by the consumers.
The term Ideagoras refers to places on the internet where large numbers of people and/or businesses gather to exchange ideas and solutions. The term was coined by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams in Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. This term is a portmanteau of the modern English word idea and the ancient Greek word agora. An agora was an open "place of assembly" in an ancient Greek city-state where trade occurred. It has also been described as the political heart of Athens from 600BC. Wikinomics refers to online ideas marketplaces like InnoCentive as ideagoras.