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TechGlossary

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Definitions, etc.

 

Aggregator

"An aggregator or news aggregator is a type of computer program (such as application software or a web application) that collects syndicated Web content, such as RSS and other XML feeds from weblogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites.

 

"Aggregators improve upon the time and effort needed to regularly check websites of interest for updates, creating a unique information space or "personal newspaper." This definition is from Wikipedia - click on the link to the full entry for more information.

 

API

In Malay/Indonesian api means 'fire'. Included this term because if you start reading about Web 2.0 and social software you will notice people mentioning it. API stands for "Application Programming Interface".

In this context: "If you're writing a program, say, a word processor, and you want to display a menu, or write a file, you have to ask the operating system to do it for you, using a very specific set of function calls which are different on every operating system. These function calls are called the API: it's the interface that an operating system, like Windows, provides to application developers, like the programmers building word processors and spreadsheets and whatnot. It's a set of thousands and thousands of detailed and fussy functions and subroutines that programmers can use, which cause the operating system to do interesting things like display a menu, read and write files, and more esoteric things like find out how to spell out a given date in Serbian, or extremely complex things like display a web page in a window. If your program uses the API calls for Windows, it's not going to work on Linux, which has different API calls. Sometimes they do approximately the same thing. That's one important reason Windows software doesn't run on Linux. If you wanted to get a Windows program to run under Linux, you'd have to reimplement the entire Windows API, which consists of thousands of complicated functions: this is almost as much work as implementing Windows itself, something which took Microsoft thousands of person-years. And if you make one tiny mistake or leave out one function that an application needs, that application will crash." (from How Microsoft lost the API war.)

 

Biblioblogosphere

 

Bliki

"a mixture between the blog and the wiki, in which articles are posted on a journal in date order, but remain editable by other users." (From Tonkin, E 'Making the case for a wiki'.)

 

Blog

Short for weblog. "A Web site that contains dated entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) about a particular topic. Functioning as an online journal, blogs can be written by one person or a group of contributors. Entries contain commentary and links to other Web sites, and images as well as a search facility may also be included." (from Answers.com. See also Blogs and Blog features on the Curtin Colloquy blog.)

 

Blogosphere

 

Bluetooth

"Bluetooth is a low-power-consumption and short-range wireless technology for personal area networks (PANs). It connects your personal electronic devices, such as laptops, mobile phones, digital cameras, audio equipments, and printers, without the clutter of cables. The Swedish telecom giant Ericsson originally developed Bluetooth. The name is inspired by King Harold Bluetooth, known for his unification of previously warring tribes from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Likewise, the Bluetooth technology was intended to unify and connect different personal electronic devices."

from What is Bluetooth by Michael Juntao Yuan (click on link for more information). Found on Resource Shelf, retrieved 9 December 2005.

 

Digital repository

 

Instant Messaging (IM)

"A type of communications service that enables you to create a private chat room with another individual. Typically, the instant messaging system alerts you whenever somebody on your private list is online. You can then initiate a chat session with that particular individual. " from Glossary of Common Computer & Internet Terms.

How Stuff Works has a good overview of instant messaging: what it is, how it works, and what IM programs are available.

Read the great article on instant messaging in libraries, by Aaron Schmidt & Michael Stephens (see the Reading Log for a link to the article).

 

MMS

 

Moblog

 

MP3

 

MP3 players

 

Podcasting

 

RFID

 

RSS

 

Screencasting

"A screencast is a digital movie in which the setting is partly or wholly a computer screen, and in which audio narration describes the on-screen action." (Jon Udell) See What is screencasting for an overview and more information.

 

SMS

 

Social bookmarking

This post says it far better than I ever could!

 

Social software

 

Splog

 

Tagging

 

Vlog

 

Web 2.0

"Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an "architecture of participation," and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences." (from Tim O'Reilly.)

 

Weblog

See Blog.

 

Wiki

 

Wireless

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