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"The world is about multiplication [not addition]. If you make a connection and keep it to yourself, it's an addition. If [your connection] makes a connection, this leads to multiplication. Everyone benefits from multiplication." |
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Gen Y Terms You Need to Know By Diane K. Danielson 10 Tech Terms You Need to Know Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia. It is written collaboratively by volunteers and allows most articles to be changed by anyone with access to a Web browser and an Internet connection. A wiki is a type of website that allows anyone visiting the site to add, remove or edit content without the need for registration, making it an effective tool for collaborative writing. A blog (or weblog) is a website where items are posted on a regular basis and displayed with the newest at the top. A typical blog combines text, images and links to other blogs, Web pages and other media related to its topic. The term blog is a blend of the terms web and log, leading to weblog and, finally, blog. Authoring or maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called blogging. Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries." A person who posts these entries is called a blogger. A social network service is software specifically focused on the building and verifying of social networks for any purpose. Many social networking services are also blog hosting services. Most now include instant messaging technologies and peer-to-peer connectivity and allow users to share blogs, files (especially photographs) and messages. Instant messaging (IM) is the act of instantly communicating between two or more people over a network such as the Internet. Instant messaging requires the use of a client program that hooks up an instant messaging service and differs from e-mail in that conversations happen in real time. Short message service (SMS) is a service available on most digital mobile phones that permits the sending of short messages (also known as text messages, messages or, more colloquially, SMSs, texts or even txts) between mobile phones, other handheld devices and even landline telephones. Internet forums, also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion groups, bulletin boards or simply forums, is a facility on the Web for holding discussions, or the application software used to provide the facility. A sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users. Avatars are icons or representations of users in a shared virtual reality. Within online virtual communities and Internet forums, avatars are pictures that users display alongside thier contributions to represent themselves. Avatars have also become popular in instant messaging and are also referred to as buddy icons. A podcast is a Web feed of audio or video files placed on the Internet for anyone to download or purchase by subscription. The subscription feed of automatically delivered new content is what distinguishes a podcast from a simple download or real-time streaming. Usually, the podcast features one type of "show" with new episodes appearing either sporadically or at planned intervals. Open-source software refers to computer software available with its source code and under an open-source license to study, change and improve its design. It allows anybody to make a new version of the software, port it to new operating systems and share it with others. It allows the product be more understandable, modifiable, duplicatable or simply accessible while it is still marketable. Source: wikipedia.com Online professional and social networks used by women in
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