Weblet

The word Weblet was coined by Al Globus of NASA in 1994. The first reference to the term weblet seems to have appeared in a report produced for NASA numbered RNR-94-017, dated back on October 6, 1994 and entitled "Spinning a Useful Weblet". The definition this document used in relation to a weblet was as follows: "A highly interconnected portion of the World Wide Web devoted to a particular end, usually maintained by a single individual or organization and located at a single site."
Description.
A "weblet" is similar to, but different in several ways from a minisite or microsite. Although a "weblet" is similar in that it is a type of Internet web design, its main differences are as follows:
Concluding remarks from Al Globus and Chris Beaumont of NASA included the comment that "indexing issues need to be worked out." Also, the article mentions that web content requires rigorous editing and reviewing. The complexity of creating web content continues to be difficult and has acquired a reputation for being sloppy and of low quality. They further mention that although the Web is a superb means of disseminating technical information to a large audience at low cost, these documents must constantly be kept up to date. A sustained large effort would be needed to provide a significant utility to update web sites in a much easier way.
SInce 1994, better software has been developed to enable non-technical users to update their websites as weblets; these continue to improve. Today non-technical users are able to use tools that they are already familiar with such as their Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation and Publishing software to update content on their website that dynamically generates HTML and Adobe Flash websites and publishes these to weblet servers.
The term weblet is also used by Microsoft as a means to modify settings that control the functionality of an Enterprise portal. Also, web applications referred to as webapp can also be purchased or designed, uploaded and executed as an added component to a weblet. In addition, there are many add-ons called weblet tools available to help the non-technical user. There are tools to optimize the weblets for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), streaming video, voice annotation and other functionality.