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| A Web site developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content. |
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| A multimedia digital file made available on the Internet for downloading to a portable media player, computer, etc. |
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| A digital VIDEO file made available on the Internet for downloading to a portable media player, computer, etc. |
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| A Web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis. |
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| Virtual Learning Environment -a system for delivering learning materials to students via the web. |
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| The use of a dedicated Web site to communicate informally with other members of the site, by posting messages, photographs, etc. |
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| The correct or acceptable way of communicating on the Internet. |
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| An outline of someone online describing a person including personal details, contact details and other provided information. |
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| A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographical boundaries |
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| often takes the form of a computer-based simulated environment, not the real world. |
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| Online chat can refer to any kind of communication over the Internet, but is primarily meant to refer to direct one-on-one chat |
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| A site on a computer network where online conversations are held in real time by a number of users. |
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| relating to a computer system in which a central server supports a number of networked workstations. |
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| Voice over Internet Protocol - a technology for making telephone calls over the Internet in which speech sounds are converted into binary and transmitted, free over internet. |
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| using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server. |
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| networked online storage where data is stored on multiple virtual servers, generally hosted by third party providers |
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| Ubiquitous computing (UBICOMP) |
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| advanced computing concept where computing is made to appear everywhere and anywhere, not just on the desktop. |
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| Radio Frequency Identification - use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into any other object to store information, e.g. Dog Chip |
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