Chapter 8 Flashcards
A web development technique that allows portions of the web pages to reload with fresh data rather than requiring the entire web page to load.
AJAX
Websites that provide a collection of content from the web.
Aggregators
A personal website, open to the public, which the site creator expresses his or her feelings or opinions with a series of chronological entries.
Blog(weblog)
The term for the millions of blogs on the web.
Blogosphere
The process of taking a job traditionally performed by an employee or consultant and outsourcing it to an undefined group of people in the form of an open cell.
Crowdsourcing
Website that takes different content from a number of other web sites and mixes then together to create a new kind of content.
Mashup
The distribution of digital media via syndication feeds for playback on digital media players and personal computers.
Netcasting
The distribution of digital audio media via syndication feeds for playback on digital media players and personal computers.
Podcasting
Customized printing done in small batches.
Printing-on-demand
A technology that allows users to receive the information they want, when they want it, without having to surf thousands of websites.
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Websites that allow users to upload their content to the web in the form of text, voice, images, and videos.
Social networking sites
A keyword or term that describes a piece of information.
Tag
The distribution of digital video media via syndication feeds for playback on digital media players and personal computers.
Video casting
A loose collection of information technologies and applications, plus the websites that use them.
Web 2.0
An web site that provides user generated media content, and promotes tagging, rating, commenting, and other interactions among users and their media contributions.
Web 2.0 media
