IT & e-commerce

Are you a mouse potato & spend a lot of time surfing the net & blogging? If your answer is "yes", you SHOULD read the following information. If you answer is "no", you MUST read the following information.

Listening Computer Terms: Good Hackers, Bad Hackers and Busy Bloggers

Listen to essential vocabulary

1	aggregator	a person or organization that collects information from the internet pages of other businesses and puts it on a single website
2	auction	An electronic market, which can exist in both a business-to-business and business-to-consumer context. Sellers offer products or services to buyers through a Web site with a structured process for price-setting and fulfillment
3	avatar	in computing, an image which represents you in online games, chat rooms, etc. and which you can move around the screen using the mouse or keys
4	back-end systems	are corporate systems that are used to run a company such as systems to manage orders, inventory and supply processing
5	banner	an advertisement placed on a web site linked to the advertiser's own web site
6	blog	short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual
7	bookmark	to make a record of the address of an internet document on your computer so that you can find it again easily
8	broadband	a system that makes it possible for many messages or large amounts of information to be sent at the same time and very quickly between computers or other electronic devices
9	browse	to view data, to surf
10	clicks and mortar	used for talking about businesses that involve selling things in stores as well as on the Internet
11	cookie	a piece of information stored on your computer which contains information about all the internet documents that you have looked at
12	cybersquatting	when someone pays to officially take a famous name as an internet address, so that they can later sell it for a high price to the person or organization with that name
13	cybrary	a collection of pieces of writing, images, etc., often relating to literature or educational subjects, that can be read on the Internet
14	digital cash	A system that allows a person to pay for goods or services by transmitting a number from one computer to another. Like the serial numbers on real dollar bills, the digital cash numbers are unique. Each one is issued by a bank and represents a specified sum of real money.
15	dot.com	a company that does most of its business on the Internet
16	e-commerce	the business of buying and selling goods and services on the Internet
17	google	to search for something on the Internet using the Google search engine
18	hacker	someone who hacks into other people's computer systems
19	mouse potato	a person who spends a lot of time on their computer and does not have an active style of life
20	pop-up	a new window that opens quickly on a computer screen in front of what you are working on
21	RSS	abbreviation for really simple syndication: a way of publishing information on a website so that someone can take it and use it on another website
22	shopping cart	a shopping cart is a piece of software that acts as an online store's catalog and ordering process
23	social networking	the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals
24	stock availability	the fact that something can be bought
25	usability	usability is a Web site design phrase that describes how well visitors can use a Web site
26	user abandonment	term used to describe a visitor on a Web page who leaves that page before completing the desired action
27	Web 2.0	the popular term for advanced Internet technology and applications including blogs, wikis, RSS and social bookmarking
28	webcast	a broadcast made on the Internet
29	webinar	an occasion when a group of people go online at the same time to study and discuss something
30	wi-fi	a system for connecting electronic equipment such as computers and electronic organizers to the Internet without using wires

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