The tangled-web is the combination of several ideas into a single unified way of authoring which includes code and annotation (text, video, audio etc) in a single environment.
It combines the ideas of: * Literate Programming * RESTful Web Services and * Federated Wiki
Web sites that take part in the tanggled-web can also be referred to as a:
The basic idea behind Literate Wiki is for a wiki page to describe and document a software program as well as to extract the code that is described.
The tangled-plugin is a plugin that help weave the tangled web. It is an authoring tool for Federation REST Services.
The Transport Plugin is the name given to the plugin idea initially described here: