Sunday, February 22, 2009

Hw assignment 2

dot-com bubble burst- when a bunch of seemingly successful web-based businesses failed in Fall 2001

shakeout- term used to describe the unsuccessful and foolhardy businesses that are thrown to the wayside during industry fluctuations

Web 2.0- standards and approach used by post-crash thriving websites

Buzzword- a stylish or trendy word or phrase

mashup- a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool

platform- provides a structural representation of the document, enabling you to modify its content and visual presentation. Essentially, it connects web pages to scripts or programming languages.

Web Interaction design- aims to minimize the learning curve and to increase accuracy and efficiency of a task without diminishing usefulness; the objective is to reduce frustration and increase user productivity and satisfaction.

standards-based presentation-

Document Object Model- provides a structural representation of the document, enabling you to modify its content and visual presentation. Essentially, it connects web pages to scripts or programming languages.

algorithmic data- is a procedure used to solve a mathematical or computational problem or to address a data processing issue. In the latter sense, an algorithm is a set of step-by-step commands or instructions designed to reach a particular goal.


To get these definitions, I simply placed the terms in to the Google search engine followed by the word “definition” and sometimes (if needed) “web.” The only one I had problems with is standards-based presentation.

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