These are terms that are important for understanding technology. These are terms I am getting familiar with. I have to admit I'm not as technologically literate as some but while taking this class I have become more so. I've also heard many of these terms used but have not totally understood what they mean. I am beginning to understand. I thought Source Code was a movie starring Jake Gyllenhall and Michelle Monoghan. That's a joke even though there is a movie with that title that stars those two actors. One will have a better understanding of technology if one actually understands the terms.
After watching the video about Web 2.0 I was struck that in some ways it will make the web more complicated. Yet, in other ways it may give people more freedom to be creative on the web. Obviously, it is very good for sharing photographs on the web. Maybe people can use it to blog more and create more elaborate and better websites. The fact that the web will be less corporate based and more democratic based might be good too. On the other hand we may get more and more advertisements on the web which may have its drawbacks. Like anything Web 2.0 has its good points and its not-so-good points.
*Aggregation: Using mulitple ethernet network cable/ports in parallel to increase network efficiency.
*avatar: The graphical representation of the user or user's alter ego.
*blog: Short for weblog--a type of website or part of one. They are maintained for an individual with regular entries of commentary, description of events, or other material such as graphics or vide.
*cache: A component that transparently stores data so that future requests of that data can be serve faster.
*captcha: A type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person.
*cloud computing: The delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as utility over a network.
*Digg: A social networking sight.
*hash tag: Short messages on services such as Twitter that may be tagged by including one or more hash tags: words or phrases prefixed with symbol #.
*HTML: Stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It's the predominate markup language for web pages.
*Podcasts or webcasts: A series of digital media files (either audio or visual) that are released episodically and are downloaded through web syndication.
*tags: A non-hierarchal keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as Internet Bookmark, digital image, or computing file).
*Tweet: A post on Twitter. Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text based posts, known as "tweets."
*Web 2.0: Is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information, sharing, interoperability, user centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.
*wiki: A website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinking web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language.
*source code: A text written in a computer programing language.
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