Week 1

Word list definitions

  • Internet  – A global network connecting millions of computers. More than 100 countries are linked into exchanges of data, news and opinions.
  • World Wide Web – A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files. This means you can jumo from one document to another simply by clicking hot spots.
  • Blog – Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
  • IM – Short for instant message, a type of communications service that enables you to create a kind of private chat room with another individual in order to communicate in real time over the Internet, analagous to a telephone conversation but using text-based, not voice-based, communication .
  • IM language – It is created for faster instant messaging, and it is basically a catergory of words that have an abbreviated to make messaging quicker.
  • Social Network – A social structure made of nodes that are generally individuals or organizations. A social network represents relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, animals, computers or other information/knowledge processing entities.
  • User-centered – is a design philosophy and a process in which the needs, wants, and limitations of the end user of an interface or document are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process.
  • E-commerce – Often referred to as simply e-commerce, business that is conducted over the Internet using any of the applications that rely on the Internet, such as e-mail, instant messaging, shopping carts, Web services, UDDI, FTP, and EDI, among others. Electronic commerce can be between two businesses transmitting funds, goods, services and/or data or between a business and a customer.
  • E-learning – Education via the Internet, network, or standalone computer. e-learning is essentially the network-enabled transfer of skills and knowledge. e-learning refers to using electronic applications and processes to learn. e-learning applications and processes include Web-based learning, computer-based learning, virtual classrooms and digital collaboration.
  • Torrent – is a file distribution system used for transferring files across a network of people. Using P2P networking, while more people are downloading, more pieces of whatever is being downloaded is uploaded.
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