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Vocabulary
Vocab words to study for IT.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Crowdsourcing | a problem-solving model in which a task ordinarily performed by one person is outsourced to a large group or community in order to obtain and analyze large amounts of data |
| Collective intelligence | the ability of a group to to exhibit a greater degree of intelligence by solving problems collaboratively compared to the intelligence of an individual member |
| Ajax | a programming methodology that uses a number of existing technologies together and enables Web applications to make incremental updates to the user interface without the need to reload the browser page |
| Wiki | A website that’s full of information that may or may not be true & also can be edited. |
| Folksonomy | practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags and categorize content |
| Web feed | Updated information on that website |
| RSS feed | site summary |
| Podcasts | digitals on the internet for downloading to a media player, computer, phone , etc |
| Semantic web | web data that is contextualized with the addition of machine-readable data |
| Mashup | web pages that include content and scripts from multiple web sites to create new applications |
| Social networking | A network of social interactions and personal relations. (Facebook & Twitter) |
| Instant messaging | messages sent quickly from one computer to another |
| Text messaging (SMS) | communicating between mobile devices |
| Blog | personal thoughts posted on a public website |
| Convergence | the integration of telephony and data technologies |
| Voice over IP | a method and group of technology for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions |