Terms selection - 8
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
Originally a standard for defining the types of files attached to standard Internet mail messages. The MIME standard has come to be used in many situations where one cmputer programs needs to communicate with another program about what kind of file is being sent.
For example, HTML files have a MIME-type of text/html, JPEG files are image/jpeg, etc.
Ref: http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
POP (Post Office Protocol)
In computing, the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. POP3 and IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol) are the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers support both.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol
Proxy server
In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that acts as a go-between for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. (for security or to speed up access to a resource)
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server
ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)
ISDN is a telephone system network. The key feature of the ISDN is that it integrates speech and data on the same lines, adding features that were not available in the classic telephone system.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN
MUD (Multi-User Dungeon)
In online gaming, a MUD, is a multi-user real-time virtual world described entirely in text. It combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, interactive fiction, and online chat. Players can read descriptions of rooms, objects, other players, non-player characters, and actions performed in the virtual world. Players interact with each other and the world by typing commands that resemble a natural language.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
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Monday, April 27, 2009
terms and definition — Week 9
Terms selection - 7
DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
DHCP is a network application protocol used by devices (DHCP clients) to obtain configuration information for operation in an Internet Protocol network. This protocol reduces system administration workload, allowing devices to be added to the network with little or no manual intervention.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCP
FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)
A standard for transmitting data on optical fiber cables at a rate of around 100,000,000 bits-per-second (10 times as fast as 10-BaseTEthernet, about twice as fast as T-3).
Ref: http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
Firewall
A firewall is a part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication. It is also a device or set of devices configured to permit, deny, encrypt, decrypt, or proxy all computer traffic between different security domains based upon a set of rules and other criteria.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_wall
GIF (Graphic Interchange Format)
A common format for image files, especially suitable for images containing large areas of the same color. GIF format files of simple images are often smaller than the same file would be if stored in JPEG format, but GIF format does not store photographic images as well as JPEG.
Ref: http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)
IMAP is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being POP3. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers support both protocols as a means of transferring e-mail messages from a server, such as those used by Gmail, to a client, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook. Once configured, the client's use of such protocols remains transparent to the user.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP
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DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
DHCP is a network application protocol used by devices (DHCP clients) to obtain configuration information for operation in an Internet Protocol network. This protocol reduces system administration workload, allowing devices to be added to the network with little or no manual intervention.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHCP
FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)
A standard for transmitting data on optical fiber cables at a rate of around 100,000,000 bits-per-second (10 times as fast as 10-BaseTEthernet, about twice as fast as T-3).
Ref: http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
Firewall
A firewall is a part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication. It is also a device or set of devices configured to permit, deny, encrypt, decrypt, or proxy all computer traffic between different security domains based upon a set of rules and other criteria.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_wall
GIF (Graphic Interchange Format)
A common format for image files, especially suitable for images containing large areas of the same color. GIF format files of simple images are often smaller than the same file would be if stored in JPEG format, but GIF format does not store photographic images as well as JPEG.
Ref: http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)
IMAP is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being POP3. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers support both protocols as a means of transferring e-mail messages from a server, such as those used by Gmail, to a client, such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook. Once configured, the client's use of such protocols remains transparent to the user.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
terms and definition - Week 8
Terms selection - 6
Atom
Atom is a type of web feed, written in XML, which allows a user to download any updates made to the website or blog using a feed reader.
Ref: http://www.blogossary.com/define/atom/
Applet
An applet is a small program, usually embedded in a web page, which can perform a number of duties such as playing audio or video clips and querying a database. These programs are normally written in Java.
Ref: http://browsers.about.com/od/glossarywordsa/g/applet.htm
IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
IDE describes a single application which contains an entire programming environment. This normally includes a compiler, debugger, and a graphical programming interface.
Ref: http://browsers.about.com/od/i/g/IDE.htm
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
VoIP is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOIP
WiFi
The term Wi-Fi often is used by the public as a synonym for wireless Internet (WLAN); but not every wireless Internet product has a Wi-Fi certification, which may be because of certification costs that must be paid for each certified device type.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiFi
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Atom
Atom is a type of web feed, written in XML, which allows a user to download any updates made to the website or blog using a feed reader.
Ref: http://www.blogossary.com/define/atom/
Applet
An applet is a small program, usually embedded in a web page, which can perform a number of duties such as playing audio or video clips and querying a database. These programs are normally written in Java.
Ref: http://browsers.about.com/od/glossarywordsa/g/applet.htm
IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
IDE describes a single application which contains an entire programming environment. This normally includes a compiler, debugger, and a graphical programming interface.
Ref: http://browsers.about.com/od/i/g/IDE.htm
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
VoIP is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOIP
WiFi
The term Wi-Fi often is used by the public as a synonym for wireless Internet (WLAN); but not every wireless Internet product has a Wi-Fi certification, which may be because of certification costs that must be paid for each certified device type.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiFi
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terms and definition - Week 7
Terms selection - 5
Edublog
An edublog is a blog written by someone with a stake in education. Examples might include blogs written by or for teachers, blogs maintained for the purpose of classroom instruction, or blogs written about educational policy.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edublog
FeedBurner is a web feed management provider, it provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Services provided to publishers include traffic analysis and an optional advertising system.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner
Digg is a social website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg
AdWords is Google's flagship advertising product and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adwords
Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. Folksonomy describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy
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Edublog
An edublog is a blog written by someone with a stake in education. Examples might include blogs written by or for teachers, blogs maintained for the purpose of classroom instruction, or blogs written about educational policy.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edublog
FeedBurner is a web feed management provider, it provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Services provided to publishers include traffic analysis and an optional advertising system.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner
Digg is a social website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg
AdWords is Google's flagship advertising product and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adwords
Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. Folksonomy describes the bottom-up classification systems that emerge from social tagging.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
terms and definitions - Week 6
Terms selection - 4
User Experience Design (UX)
is a design field that pertains to the creation of the architecture and interaction models which impact a user's perception of a device or event. The area include all aspects of the user's interaction; how the user perceive, learn and use the device or system.
FriendFeed
FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS/ Atom feed.
Aggregator website
In general internet terms, a news aggregation website is a website where headlines are collected, usually manually, by the website owner.
Boxee
Boxee is a freeware cross-platform media center software with social networking features that is a fork of the open source XBMC media center software with some custom and proprietary additions
Micro-blogging
is a form of multimedia blogging that allows users to send brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them, either to be viewed by anyone or by a restricted group which can be chosen by the user.
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HW #7 – Article 4
Article title:
10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design
Link: http://mashable.com/2009/01/09/user-experience-design/?cp=2
Inspired by my last post, I want to follow up with the term "user experience design", and this article is the most interesting one that I found. The author is Whitney Hess, who is a New York based independent user experience consultant. She recorded some of the most influential and highly respected professionals in UX field and cleverly compiled them to create the "10-most" things that she thought UX design is not. The list is as follow:User experience design is 1. not user interface design 2. not a step in the process 3. not about technology 4. not just about usability 5. not just about the user 6. not expensive 7. not easy 8. not the role of one person or department 9. not a single discipline 10. not a choice.
Commentary
I think the article is great because the content was cleverly arranged, so that you can gradually understand what the user experience design is. And the quotations could drive you to think about the process of user experience design. I like how she described her job — user experience design is to make stuff easy and pleasurable to use. Don't you think that is the key to any website's success. An easy and pleasurable experience can definitely draw more users to return to the website.
I also want to recommend Whitney Hess's blog: Pleasure & Pain
P. S.: Comments on the style, the structure, anything you do not like about the blog are welcomed and thank you!
10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design
Link: http://mashable.com/2009/01/09/user-experience-design/?cp=2
Inspired by my last post, I want to follow up with the term "user experience design", and this article is the most interesting one that I found. The author is Whitney Hess, who is a New York based independent user experience consultant. She recorded some of the most influential and highly respected professionals in UX field and cleverly compiled them to create the "10-most" things that she thought UX design is not. The list is as follow:User experience design is 1. not user interface design 2. not a step in the process 3. not about technology 4. not just about usability 5. not just about the user 6. not expensive 7. not easy 8. not the role of one person or department 9. not a single discipline 10. not a choice.
Commentary
I think the article is great because the content was cleverly arranged, so that you can gradually understand what the user experience design is. And the quotations could drive you to think about the process of user experience design. I like how she described her job — user experience design is to make stuff easy and pleasurable to use. Don't you think that is the key to any website's success. An easy and pleasurable experience can definitely draw more users to return to the website.
I also want to recommend Whitney Hess's blog: Pleasure & Pain
P. S.: Comments on the style, the structure, anything you do not like about the blog are welcomed and thank you!
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