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BA 342 lecture final
Chapter 5
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Business
Undergraduate 3
11/18/2008

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Affinity portal
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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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Aggregators
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Web sites that provide collections of content from the Web
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AJAX
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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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Blog
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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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Blogosphere
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The term for the millions of blogs on the web
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Chat Room
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A virtual meeting place where groups of regulars come to "gab" electronically
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Collaboration
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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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Corporate Portal
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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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Distance Learning (DL)
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Learning situations in which teachers and students do not meet face to face
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E-learning
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Learning supported by the web; can be done inside traditional classromms or in virtual classrooms
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Groupware
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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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Industrywide portal
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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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Mashup
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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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Metasearch engine
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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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Mobile portal
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A web site that is accessible from mobile devices
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Podcast
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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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Portal
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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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Search engine
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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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Social networking
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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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Tag
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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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Telecommuting
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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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Teleconferencing
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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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Topology
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The physical layout and connectivity of a network
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Videocast
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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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Videoconferencing
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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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Virtual collaboration
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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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Virtual group (team)
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A work group whose members are in different locations and who meet electronically
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Virtual universities
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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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Web 2.0
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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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Web services
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Self-contained business/consumer modular application delivered over the Internet
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Weblog
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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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Whiteboard
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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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Wiki
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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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Work group
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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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Workflow
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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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