Saturday, January 1, 2011

Web 2.0


An umbrella term for the second wave of the World Wide Web

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)


The unique Internet address assigned to a Web document or resource by which it can be accessed by all Web browsers.

Social Networking Site


The use of Internet technologies to link together users of the Internet who have common interests. Typical technologies that are used in social networking include Wikis, blogs, instant messaging and podcasts .

Really Simple Syndication(RSS)


A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and news sites.

Portal


A Web "supersite" that provides a variety of services including Web search, news, blogs, discussion groups, shopping and links to other sites.

Podcast


A podcast is is a series of digital media files either audio or video that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication.

Mosaic


A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)


is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet.

Internet Protocol (IP) Address


A computer's numeric address, such as 128.201.86.290, by which it can be located within a network.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)


A protocol used to request and transmit files, especially webpages and webpage components, over the Internet or other computer network.

Hypertext Markup Language (MTML)


It's a telecommunications and Internet service provider in Mauritius

Home Page


The main page of a World Wide Web site or the page where an individual Web browser is set, as the first viewed page when the browser starts up.

Hit


A match of data in a search string against data that one is searching.

Geographic Imaging


enables you to envision the geographic aspects of a body of data

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)


A communications protocol governing the transfer of files from one computer to another over a network.