CS103 Ch 5
In addition to text-only chats, people in the 1990s used their Web browsers to visit a virtual ____ room, where they could send text-only messages to other users in the room.
chat
Web ____ caters to user-generated content.
2.0
Facebook has a large number of active users, and more than ____ of its users check their Facebook pages daily.
65%
The addition of a Web camera (also called a ____) enables users to participate in a video chat, in which participants can see and speak to each other.
webcam
YouTube was started in ____ as a private venture.
2005
Jarkko Oikarinen wrote a multiuser communications program called Internet Relay ____ (IRC).
Chat
Political candidates, grassroots campaigns, television programs, and millions of businesses have ____ that are an integral part of their marketing efforts.
Facebook pages
_____ is a photo-sharing site and a social network.
The content of a microblog differs from that of a traditional blog in that it answers the question, "____"
What are you doing now?
A(n) ____ database is stored in multiple physical locations, with portions of the database replicated in different locations.
distributed
A podcast with educational content is sometimes referred to as a ____.
learncast
The original purpose of podcasting was to make it easy for people to create and broadcast their own ____, but many other uses soon followed.
radio shows
Businesses and sometimes individuals use a _____ to assimilate all of their social media content on a specific topic to engage readers and generate interest.
social hub
The correct format for a hashtag is ____.
#professor
____ was the first to make APIs available to other developers.
Amazon.com
Usenet was founded in 1979 at ____ and is a way of collecting information and storing it by topic category.
Duke University
____ is a photo-sharing site.
Flickr
Facebook, which began in 2004 as a closed network for college students and later was expanded to include high school students, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, then a student at ____ University.
Harvard
Unlike ______, which is a social network open to business professionals, _____ is a social networking site restricted to credentialed physicians.
LinkedIn/Sermo
____ software manages the schedule for downloading podcast files to your device.
Podcatcher
VoIP is an acronym for Voice over Internet ____.
Protocol
Sometimes the link to subscribe to feeds is a text link with the letters "____" to indicate the file format of the syndicated content.
RSS
Windows Live Messenger has been replaced with _____.
Skype
The early networks that became the Internet included many computers that ran a program called ____ that allowed users to exchange short text messages.
Talk
____ allows users to send very short messages to others who are connected to the network using smartphones or other Internet devices.
Text messaging
Many blogs are published using free blogging tools available from sites such as Blogger, WordPress, and _____.
Tumblr
Which of the following is an example of a newsfeed using pull technology?
Usenet
An example of VoIP is ____.
Vonage
Mashup developers usually include additional APIs on the mashup site that generate revenue by linking to customized ____.
advertising
To receive feed content, you can install a program called a(n) ____ on your device.
aggregator
A blog often contains ____.
all of the above
A feed might include ____.
all of the above
Chats can be ____.
all of the above
Most business professionals use ____ on their cell phones and other mobile devices to communicate with clients and customers.
all of the above
Users of online business networks are typically ____.
all of the above
Using Twitter, you can ____.
all of the above
You can listen to or watch a podcast on a _____.
all of the above
A social network is a general term that refers to any community of people who use the Internet to share ____.
any of the above
Chat participants might use common acronyms as a typing shortcut for common expressions, such as "bbl" for "____."
be back later
Bloggers often used code ______ to create hyperlinks and embed photos in postings.
hackers
A(n) ____ message is sent in real time between users who are chatting over a network.
instant
Which of the following is NOT an example of push technology?
mashups
A(n) ____ is a form of blogging in which users send short messages on a very frequent schedule.
microblog
A ____ stores items on a server as articles or postings that are sorted by topic.
newsgroup
A(n) ____ is a discussion group that occurs over a computer network with many users contributing to a specific topic.
newsgroup
When the Usenet News Service began operating, the only way to read or post articles to newsgroups was to install and run a software program called a ____.
newsreader
Which of the following is NOT an example of pull technology?
online social networks
The term Web ____ describe the process of organizations communicating through a network to share data without needing extensive knowledge of each other's systems.
service