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Vocabulary
Vocab words to study for IT.
Term | Definition |
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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 |