INSY 2303 (UTA) Exam 2

BBS

Bulletin Board System, early forms of online social networking in which user posts could be viewed asynchronously by other members of the bulletin board community.

blog

A publicly accessible series of posts on the Web. Blogs often reflect the views of the author and are periodically updated with new entries.

The collection of HTML pages and images that is stored locally by a browser and used to quickly load pages that have been previously viewed without waiting for them to be downloaded again.

browser cache

A module of computer code that adds capabilities to a browser, such as the ability to block ads on Web pages.

extension

A modification of copyright practices, copyleft allows third-party copying and distribution as long as the copies have the same license as the original.

copyleft

A message sent from a Web server to a browser and stored on a user's hard disk, usually containing information about the user.

Cookie

Based on 5 rights, copy right holders can grant or deny: attribution, Share alike, no deritvatives, public domain, noncommercial.

Licensing options that extend rights, such as creating derivatives, to someone other than the copyright owner.

Creative commons

An activity in which a group of people contribute, usually online, to solving a problem or completing a task.

crowd sourcing

(Cascading Style Sheets) Used in conjunction with HTML, a means of formatting the appearance of text and other elements of a Web page.

CSS

A collection of information that might be stored in more than one file or in more than one record type.

Database

A work, such as a translation or adaptation, that contains major elements of a previously copyrighted work.

Derivative work

An area of a hard disk created by dividing a large hard disk into several smaller virtual ones, such as when using two operating systems on a single computer.

disk partition

POP3 - Post Office Protocol and

IMAP- Internet message access protocol both manage incoming mail,

SMTP-Simple mail transfer protocol-Handles outgoing mail

POP3 - Post office protocal 3, A standard for retrieving email messages from an email server.

SMTP - Simple Mail transfer protocal, A communications protocol used to send email across a network or the Internet.

IMAP - Internet message access protocal, A protocol similar to POP that is used to retrieve email messages from an email server, but offers additional features, such as choosing which emails to download from the server.

Email protocols

A type of software license that appears on the computer screen when software is being installed and prompts the user to accept or decline.

EULA- End User License Agreements

A set of rules, established by the operating system, that must be followed to create a valid file name.

file-naming conventions

Using informal information such as street addresses to derive more formal geolocational data, such as GPS coordinates.

geocoding

Adding location data to photos, web sites, HTML documents, audio files, blog posts, and texts

Adding geographic data, such as GPS coordinates, to a file tag.

Geotagging

Social networking services, such as Yelp and Google Maps, that offer location-based interaction.

Geosocial Networking

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)

A plain text or ASCII document with embedded HTML tags that dictate formatting and are interpreted by a browser.

Specify how the document should appear when displayed in a browser window

A set of instructions, such as , inserted into an HTML document to provide formatting and display information to a Web browser.

HTML tags

A legal concept that refers to ownership of intangible information, such as ideas.

four categories are:

Intellectual property

trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets.

Data that contains information about other data; file tags are an example of metadata.

metadata tag

A social media service for posting short asynchronous messages such as tweets.

microblogging

The ability of a computer or an operating system to support dual-core processors or multiple processors.

multiprocessing

The ability of a computer, a processor, or an operating system to run more than one program, job, or task at the same time.

multitasking

A technology that allows multiple parts or threads from a program to run simultaneously.

multithreading

Software that includes its source code, allowing programmers to modify and improve it.

Open source software

what happens on the disks and in circuits for memory

Physical storage

A software module that adds a specific feature to a system. In the context of browsers, a plugin adds the ability to display or play various additional file formats.

pluggin

designed for PCs and it runs from removable storage, such as USB flash drive

Portable software

Material that is not subject to copyright restrictions on its use and distribution.

public domain

main directory, can be subdivided into smaller lists

The main directory of a disk.

root directory

A collection of patches designed to correct bugs and/or add features to an existing software program.

service pack

A program module supplied with a software package for the purpose of installing the software.

setup program

Copyrighted software marketed under a license that allows users to use the software for a trial period and then send in a registration fee if they wish to continue to use it.

shareware

uses geolocation to meet with people who are nearby and have similar interests

Connecting with other nearby users on a geosocial network.

social discovery

A visual model of the links between entities in a social network.

sociograms

Uniform Resource locator, the address of a webpage

URL

The component of a search engine that autonomously visits Web sites collecting Web page data that will be indexed and available for searching.

Web Crawler

A group of Web pages accessible at a specific Web address that holds a collection of information identified by a common domain name, such as www.cnn.com.

website

Information displayed by a Web browser that's produced from an HTML document or generated on the fly from data in a database.

web page

Collaborative web application that provides tools that enable contributors to post, read, and modify content

wiki

WWW- collection of documents, images, and videos, and sound files linked together through HTTP

World wide Web