Mitchell sp11tca-2: February 2011

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Secure Sockets Layer

The most common security protocol used on the World Wide Web and commonly known as SSL.
http://www.answers.com/topic/secure-sockets-layer#ixzz1F8FRuMed

Feed

A program or signal so transmitted or conveyed.
http://www.answers.com/topic/feed#ixzz1F8F4ASt1

Directories

A description of the various characteristics of a file, such as the layout of the fields in it.
http://www.answers.com/topic/directory#ixzz1F8E9ZSee

The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work http://www.answers.com/topic/copyright#ixzz1F8D281BX

boolean Logic

a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole; used in computers
http://www.answers.com/topic/boolean-logic#ixzz1F8CZkml5

Blog

A website that displays in chronological order the postings by one or more individuals and usually has links to comments on specific postings.
http://www.answers.com/topic/blog#ixzz1F8CHe2aj

Wiki

Wiki websites are designed to enable users to make additions or edit any page of the site.
http://www.answers.com/topic/wiki#ixzz1F8BxZmuz

webapp

An application that runs on the Web.

Website

A set of interconnected webpages, usually including a homepage, generally located on the same server, and prepared and maintained as a collection of information by a person, group, or organization.
http://www.answers.com/topic/website#ixzz1F8AtmuyZ

Web Cache

A folder full of web pages in the user's computer that is maintained by the Web browser for a period of time.
http://www.answers.com/topic/web-cache#ixzz1F8AJR0Fr

Web 2.0

An umbrella term for the second wave of the World Wide Web, which was coined in a conference on the subject in 2004 by O'Reilly Media and CMP Media (later taking its parent name of United Business Media).
http://www.answers.com/topic/web-2-0#ixzz1F89HnTKQ

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.
http://www.answers.com/topic/uniform-resource-locator#ixzz1F88g9orj

Social Networking Site

The use of Internet technologies to link together users of the Internet who have common interests.
http://www.answers.com/topic/social-network-service#ixzz1F889rE00

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.
http://www.answers.com/topic/rss#ixzz1F86HoKJ8

Portal

A Web "supersite" that provides a variety of services including Web search, news, blogs, discussion groups, shopping and links to other sites.
http://www.answers.com/topic/portal-technology#ixzz1F84JVSPy

Podcast

A podcast (or non-streamed webcast) is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication.
http://www.answers.com/topic/podcast#ixzz1F82O1WHN

Mosaic

could not find proper definition

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

A service that provides internet access through wireless routers or telephone lines

Internet Protocol (IP) Address

A computer's numeric address, such as 128.201.86.290, by which it can be located within a network.
http://www.answers.com/topic/ip-address#ixzz1F7yQ73zo

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

A protocol used to request and transmit files, especially webpages and webpage components, over the internet or other computer network.
http://www.answers.com/topic/http#ixzz1F7xuBHIj

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web.
http://www.answers.com/topic/html#ixzz1F7w6W4qK

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
http://www.answers.com/topic/home-page-2#ixzz1F7tXIfcu

Hit

A connection made to a website over the internet or another network
http://www.answers.com/topic/hit#ixzz1F7rNms69

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

It is a common method of transferring files via the Internet from one computer to another.

Domain

A group of networked computers that share a common communications address.
http://www.answers.com/topic/domain#ixzz1F7kwfd50

Digital Certificate

Electronic credit card intended for on-line business transactions and authentications on the Internet.
http://www.answers.com/topic/public-key-certificate#ixzz1F7j87PJb

Cookie

A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site.
http://www.answers.com/topic/cookie#ixzz1F7gHWmND

ActiveX

A brand name from Microsoft that has been used very specifically and very broadly. http://www.answers.com/topic/activex#ixzz1F7fSfnkM

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Worm

A computer worm is a self-replicating malware computer program, which uses a computer network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computers on the network) and it may do so without any user intervention.

http://www.answers.com/topic/computer-
worm#ixzz1ERXhGVNN

Virus

A computer program that is designed to replicate itself by copying itself into the other programs stored in a computer.
http://www.answers.com/topic/computer-virus#ixzz1ERXPpyCo

Urban Legend

An apocryphal story involving incidents of the recent past, often including elements of humor and horror, that spreads quickly and is popularly believed to be true
http://www.answers.com/topic/urban-legend#ixzz1ERWinyet

Trojan Horse

computer virus disguised as a useful application

Time Bomb

In computer software, a time bomb refers to a computer program that has been written so that it will stop functioning after a predetermined date or time is reached.
http://www.answers.com/topic/time-bomb-software#ixzz1ERV3gXbV

teleconferencing

A conference held among people in different locations by means of telecommunications equipment, such as closed-circuit television
http://www.answers.com/topic/teleconference#ixzz1ERURhgvH

Tagging

Commonly used in blogs, site authors attach keyword descriptions (called tags) to identify images or text within their site as a categories or topic.

Pyramid Scheme

A fraudulent moneymaking scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to others above them in a hierarchy while expecting to receive payments from people recruited below them.
http://www.answers.com/topic/pyramid-scheme#ixzz1ERS7mNqp

Phishing

Phish is an Internet Scam designed to trick the recipient into revealing credit card, passwords, social security numbers and other personal information to individuals who intend to use them for fraudulent purposes
http://www.answers.com/topic/phishing#ixzz1ERLLjGUw

Content-control software, also known as censorware or web filtering software, is a term for software designed and optimized for controlling what content is permitted to a reader, especially when it is used to restrict material delivered over the web.
http://www.answers.com/topic/content-control-software#ixzz1EQpDsSfF