CIW IBA Lesson 1-5 Study Set
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Web 2.0 - ✔✔A concept referring to the changing trends in the use of WWW technology and Web design
that have led to the development of information-sharing and collaboration capabilities.
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 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
Wikis - ✔✔A page or collection of Web Pages that can be viewed and modified by anybody with a Web
browser and access to the Internet.
Folksonomy - ✔✔The practice of categorizing online content through tags.
Web feed - ✔✔A data format for delivering web content that is updated frequently.
Podcasts - ✔✔The use of audio or video digital-media files that are distributed through Web feeds to
subscribed users.
Semantic Web - ✔✔A web 2.0 implementation by which Web data is contextualized with the addition of
machine-readable metadata
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Mashups - ✔✔A web page that integrates content and scripts from multiple Web sites to create new
applications.
XMLHttpRequest - ✔✔An application programming interface (API) that is used to transfer XML and
other text data between a web server and browser.
Social networking - ✔✔The practice of creating networks of friends, associates and clients who can
discuss topics in common. Online social networking is a powerful concept used by individuals and
businesses worldwide.
Instant messaging - ✔✔A computer-based method of communication in which users can type and view
messages sent to one or more recipients, and view the responses immediately.
Spim - ✔✔Spam that is delivered through instant messaging.
SMS - ✔✔A text messaging service for any communication service
Trackback - ✔✔A method by which a blogger receives notification when other bloggers link to his or her
blog entry
Microformatting - ✔✔A data format that adds human-readable metadata to existing code so that the data
can be processed by other software.
Unified communications (UC) - ✔✔A business trend that seeks to simplify and integrate all forms of
communication. Also, a set of technologies that enable voice to be converted into text, and vice versa.
Convergence - ✔✔The integration of telephony and data technologies.
Voice over IP - ✔✔A technology that converts voice into data packets for transmission over a packet.
Call center - ✔✔A centralized office used for the purpose of processing a large volume of requests by
phone.
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