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| A web site that offera a single point of entry to an entire community of affiliated interests |
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| Web sites that provide collections of content from the Web |
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| A web development technique that allows portions of web pages to reload with fresh data instead of requireing the entire web page to reload |
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| A personal web site, open to the public, in which the site creator expresses his or her feelings or opinions |
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| The term for the millions of blogs on the web |
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| A virtual meeting place where groups of regulars come to "gab" electronically |
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| Mutual efforts by two ro more individuals who perform activities in order to accomplish certain tasks |
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| Commercial (public) Portal |
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| A web site that offers fairly routine content for diverse audiences; offers customization only at the user interface |
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| A web site that procide a sinle point of access to critical business information located inside and outside of an organization |
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| Learning situations in which teachers and students do not meet face to face |
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| Learning supported by the web; can be done inside traditional classromms or in virtual classrooms |
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| Software products that support groups of people who collaborate on a common task or goal and that provide a way for groups to share resources |
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| A web-based gateway to information and knowledge for an entire industry |
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| Internet telephony (voice-over Internet protocol or VoIP) |
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| Use of the Internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls |
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| A web site that takes content from a number of other web sites and mixes them together to create a new kind of content |
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| A computer program that searches several engines at once and integrates the findings of the various search engines to answer queries posted by users |
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| A web site that is accessible from mobile devices |
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| A digital audio file that is distributed over the web using Really Simple Syndication for playback on portable media players or personal computers |
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| A web-based personalized gateway to information and knowledge that provides information from disparate information systems and the Internet, using advanced search and indexing techniques |
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| Really Simple Syndication (RSS) |
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| Allos anyone to syndicate (publish) his or her blog, or any other content, to anyone who has an interest in subscribing |
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| A computer program that searches for specific information by keywords and reports the results |
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| Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) |
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| An IT architecture that makes it possible to construct business applications using web services, which can be reused across an organization in other applications |
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| Web sites that allow users to upload their content to the web, in the form of text (ex-blogs), voice (ex-podcasts), images, and videos (ex-videocasts) |
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| A keyword or term, chosen by users, that describes a piece of information (for exapmle, a blog, a picture, an article, or a video clip) |
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| A work arrangement whereby employees work at home, at the customer's premises, in special workplaces, or while traveling, usually using a computer linked to their place of employment |
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| The use of electronic communication that allows tow or more people at different locations to have a simultaneous conference |
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| The physical layout and connectivity of a network |
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| A difital video file that is distributed over the web using Really Simple Syndication for playback on portable media players or personal computers |
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| A virtual meeting in which participlants in one location can see and hear participants at other locations and can share data and graphics by electronic means |
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| The use of digital technologies that enable organization or individuals to collaboratively plan, design, develop, manage, and research products, services, and innovative information systems and electroinc commerce applications |
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| A work group whose members are in different locations and who meet electronically |
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| Online universities from which studnets take classses from home or an off-site location, via the Internet |
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| Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) |
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| SA communications system in which analog voice signals are digitized, sectioned into packets, and then sent over the internet |
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| A loose collection of information technologies and applications, and the web sites that use them; the WEb sites enrich the user experience by encouraging user participation, social interaction, and collaboration |
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| Self-contained business/consumer modular application delivered over the Internet |
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| A persoal web site, opent to the public, in which the owner expresses his or her feelings or opinions |
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| An aread on a computer display screen on which multiple users can write or draw; multiple users ca nuse a single document "pasted" onto the screen |
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| A web site on which anyone can post material and make changes quickly, without using difficult commands |
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| Two or more individuals who act together to perform some task, on either a permanent or temporary basis |
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| The movement of informatio nas it flows through the sequence of steps that make up an organization's work procedures |
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