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BIS Exam 2 CH9
BIS Exam Ch 9
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Business
Undergraduate 1
03/30/2014

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Web 1.0
Definition
Static, transaction-oriented Web sites
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Web 2.0
Definition

Internet services that foster collaboration and information sharing

 
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AJAX
Definition
A web development technique that allows portions of web pages to reload with fresh data instead of requiring the entire web page to reload
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Tagging
Definition
A tag is a keyword or term that describes a piece of information (e.g., blog, picture, article, video clip)
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Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Definition

is a method for sending/broadcasting data to subscribers; a way to manage information overload

Show Feedly with Google News

 
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Peer production
Definition

When users collaboratively work to create content, products, and services

 
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Blogs
Definition
(web logs) are personal web sites usually open to the public where the site creator expresses personal feelings or opinions. Usually in reverse chronological order.
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SPAM
Definition
Blog comments can be a hothouse for -____- and the disgruntled
Term
difficult to control
Definition
Employee blogging can be ______________________.
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Life Forever
Definition
Public postings can ___________.
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Modified by anyone, from directly within a Web browser, provided that user is granted edit access
 
Definition

What is the value of a wiki?

 
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It isn’t an original source

Anyone can alter the information (unreliable source of information)

Definition

Why can’t we cite from Wikipedia?

 
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History – Show Batman on Wikipedia

 

Roll back
Definition

Why aren’t more sites crippled on Wikipedia?

 
Term
Manage agendas

 

Share ideas
Definition

How might businesses implement a wiki?

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Mash-ups
Definition
combine content from a number of websites and mixes them together to create a new kind of content
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Social networking sites
Definition
allow users to upload their content to the web in the form of text, voice, images, and video.
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Feed
Definition
: An update on an individual’s activities that are broadcast to a member’s contacts or friends
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Metcalf’s Law (network effects or network externalities)
Definition

When the value of a product or service increases as its number of users expands

 

∑_1^

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Social commerce 
Definition

is the type of electronic commerce that uses social media to assist in buying and selling of products and services by:

Building relationships
Anticipating needs

Providing special deals

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Microblogging
Definition

is a type of short-message blogging, often made via mobile device

 
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Hashtag
Definition
is a method for organizing tweets where keywords are preceded by the # character
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Wisdom of crowds
Definition

is the idea that a group of individuals (the crowd), often consisting of untrained amateurs, will collectively have more insight than a single or small group of trained professionals

Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Britannica

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

What makes a smart crowd? When can a crowd be not so smart?

 
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Crowdsourcing
Definition
is outsourcing a job to an undefined generally large group of people in the form of an open call
Term

$1 million to first group to improve ratings by 10%

Equal to the salary of 4 silicon valley engineers

Recruited 30,000 teams from 170 countries

Increased public relations

Invited collaboration

Results were incorporated even before the prize was won

 
Definition

Could contestants create a formula that predicts how users rate a sample of films more accurately than Netflix’s Cinematch?

 
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