| Term | Definition |
|---|
| push technology | Some communication methods use _______ to send content to users who request to it |
| pull technology | The other communication method, called _____ because subscribers "pull" content to their computers when they want it |
| mailing list | A______ is a list of names and email addresses for a group of people who share a common interest in a subject or topic and exchange information by subscribing to the list |
| posting | You send your information and opinions to a mailing list by___ |
| Email list software, or list server | automatically forwards your message to every address on the mailing list |
| administrative address | The _____is the email address to which you send commands |
| list address, or the list name | The ______ is the address to which you send messages and replies |
| list moderator | For most lists, one person, known as the_______, moderates a mailing list to ensure that the list always receives and sends appropriate and relevant information to its members |
| closed list | A______ is one in which membership is not automatic |
| list administrator | The_____ is a person assigned to oversee one or more mailing lists |
| Usenet News Service, or Usenet | The______ was founded in 1979 at Duke University as a way of collecting information and storing it by topic category |
| news server | The server that stores a newsgroup is called a_____ |
| news administrator | Each news server site employs a______ |
| NNTP | Most feeds occur over the Internet using the_____ |
| distributed database | A is stored in multiple physical locations, with portions of the database replicated in different locations |
| Newsreaders | ____ were programs designed for the sole purpose of communicating with news server computers |
| Newsfeed | A ____uses pull technology to deliver changing content to users |
| RSS | The format used to syndicate published content from one site to another is called____ |
| RSS | ____stand for Really Simple Syndication |
| Atom | another format used to syndicate published content from one site to another is called____ |
| Aggregator | To subscribe to a newsfeed, you need to install a program called an _____on your computer or mobile device |
| Podcasting | _____lets a user subscribe to an audio or video feed, and then listen to it or watch it at the user's convenience on a compatible device |
| Podcast | A _____is a subscription audio or video broadcast that is created and stored in a digital format on the Internet |
| podcatching software | The aggregator used for feeds is sometimes called____ |
| API | A software program uses an ____as a means of communication with an operating system or some other program |
| Web services | _____ describe the process of organizations communicating through a network to share data, without any required knowledge of each other's systems |
| Mashup | In a____a developer combines the services from two different sites using the APIs from one or both sites to create a completely new site that uses features from one or both sites |
| API | _____ stand for Application Programming Interface |
| Social bookmarking | _______ is similar to saving a bookmark in your browser, but it refers to the process of saving bookmarks to a public Web site that you can access from any computer connected to the Internet |
| Tags | To create your social bookmarks, you create ____,which are one-word descriptions of the bookmarked content |
| Folksonomy | Thomas Vander Wal, an Internet developer, once called this process of tagging content with keywords a ______combining the word folks (people) and taxonomy (the science of classification). |
| Chat | ____is a general term for real-time communication that occurs over the Internet Originally, the term chat described the act of users exchanging typed messages, or a text chat |
| Voice Chat | ____is where participants speak to each other in real time, much like they would be using a telephone |
| Video Chat | ____is where participants can see and speak to each other |
| Private Chat | ____occurs between individuals who know each other and are invited to participate in the chat |
| Public Chat | ____occurs in a public area, sometimes called a chat room, in which people come and go |
| Lurking | ____Practice of reading messages and not contributing to the discussion is called____ |
| Flaming | _____is when a participant insults or ridicules another participant |
| Spamming | ____is when someone or an organization sends unsolicited and irrelevant messages to a chat room |
| Talk | Early UNIX computers included a program called ___that allowed users to exchange short text messages |
| IRC | In 1988, Jarkko Oikarinen wrote a communications program that extended the capabilities of the Talk program to multi-user. It was called___ |
| IRC | _____stand for Internet Relay Chat |
| IRC | _____uses a client-server network model |
| IRC | ____servers are connected through the internet to form an IRC network |
| EFNet | The original network was___which is still one of the largest IRC networks today |
| Channel | Each topic area is called a ___and participants who connect to an IRC network join specific channels in which they conduct their chats |
| channel heading | Each channel has a name, or a_____ that uses the pound sign (#) to indicate the chat's topic: |
| channel operator | When a participant creates a new channel, he becomes responsible for managing the channel and is called the_____ |
| channel operator | The ____can change the channel's topic and heading at any time |
| Web 2.0 | creates users who actively participate in writing the content that they are viewing; hence the term user-generated content |
| Virtual communities | that exist for the sole purpose of being a community |
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