Details Title: BA 342 lecture final Description: Chapter 5 Total Flash Cards: 40 Created: 11/18/2008 07:03:34		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Business Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Affinity portal Definition A web site that offera a single point of entry to an entire community of affiliated interests Term Aggregators Definition Web sites that provide collections of content from the Web Term AJAX Definition A web development technique that allows portions of web pages to reload with fresh data instead of requireing the entire web page to reload Term Blog Definition A personal web site, open to the public, in which the site creator expresses his or her feelings or opinions Term Blogosphere Definition The term for the millions of blogs on the web Term Chat Room Definition A virtual meeting place where groups of regulars come to "gab" electronically Term Collaboration Definition Mutual efforts by two ro more individuals who perform activities in order to accomplish certain tasks Term Commercial (public) Portal Definition A web site that offers fairly routine content for diverse audiences; offers customization only at the user interface Term Corporate Portal Definition A web site that procide a sinle point of access to critical business information located inside and outside of an organization Term Distance Learning (DL) Definition Learning situations in which teachers and students do not meet face to face Term E-learning Definition Learning supported by the web; can be done inside traditional classromms or in virtual classrooms Term Groupware Definition 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 Term Industrywide portal Definition A web-based gateway to information and knowledge for an entire industry Term Internet telephony (voice-over Internet protocol or VoIP) Definition Use of the Internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls Term Mashup Definition A web site that takes content from a number of other web sites and mixes them together to create a new kind of content Term Metasearch engine Definition A computer program that searches several engines at once and integrates the findings of the various search engines to answer queries posted by users Term Mobile portal Definition A web site that is accessible from mobile devices Term Podcast Definition A digital audio file that is distributed over the web using Really Simple Syndication for playback on portable media players or personal computers Term Portal Definition 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 Term Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Definition Allos anyone to syndicate (publish) his or her blog, or any other content, to anyone who has an interest in subscribing Term Search engine Definition A computer program that searches for specific information by keywords and reports the results Term Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Definition An IT architecture that makes it possible to construct business applications using web services, which can be reused across an organization in other applications Term Social networking Definition 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) Term Tag Definition 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) Term Telecommuting Definition 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 Term Teleconferencing Definition The use of electronic communication that allows tow or more people at different locations to have a simultaneous conference Term Topology Definition The physical layout and connectivity of a network Term Videocast Definition A difital video file that is distributed over the web using Really Simple Syndication for playback on portable media players or personal computers Term Videoconferencing Definition 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 Term Virtual collaboration Definition 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 Term Virtual group (team) Definition A work group whose members are in different locations and who meet electronically Term Virtual universities Definition Online universities from which studnets take classses from home or an off-site location, via the Internet Term Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) Definition SA communications system in which analog voice signals are digitized, sectioned into packets, and then sent over the internet Term Web 2.0 Definition 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 Term Web services Definition Self-contained business/consumer modular application delivered over the Internet Term Weblog Definition A persoal web site, opent to the public, in which the owner expresses his or her feelings or opinions Term Whiteboard Definition 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 Term Wiki Definition A web site on which anyone can post material and make changes quickly, without using difficult commands Term Work group Definition Two or more individuals who act together to perform some task, on either a permanent or temporary basis Term Workflow Definition The movement of informatio nas it flows through the sequence of steps that make up an organization's work procedures