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Introduction to Multimedia application software

Campus Valle Alto Glosario segundo parcial Jan-
May 2009

Nombre: Tania Tarín

Matricula: A01175395 Grupo: 301 Fecha: Feb 26, 2009

Encuentra la mejor definición o ejemplo que describa los siguientes conceptos ligados
con Multimedia:

1. Multimedia: A combination of various types of media, including sound, animation, video

and graphics.
2. Internet: a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that
use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission
3. Internet 2: Internet 2 is a nationwide project to develop the next generation of computer
network applications to facilitate the research and education.
4. WWW: computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and
graphics and sound and animation resources
5. Web 2.0: The second generation of the World Wide Web, especially the movement away
from static webpages to dynamic and shareable content.
6. Electronic Commerce: commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the
buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems.
7. IPV6: Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is an Internet Layer protocol for packet-switched
internetworks. It is designated as the successor of IPv4 with 6 digits.
8. Multicasting: The transmission of information over the Internet to two or more users at
the same time.
9. Arpanet: A wide area network originally developed by the US Army and now extended into
the Internet.
10. TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Includes standards for how
computers communicate and conventions for connecting networks and routing traffic.
11. Internetworking: involves connecting two or more computer networks via gateways using
a common routing technology, connected through LAN’s.
12. Open Standards: Standards that are widely used, consensus based, published and
maintained by recognized industry standards organizations.

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13. Packets: A piece of a message transmitted over a packet-switching network. One of the
key features of a packet is that it contains the destination address in addition to the data.
14. Packet-switching: a network communications method that groups all transmitted data,
irrespective of content, type, or structure into suitably-sized blocks, called packets.
15. IP-address: An Internet Protocol is a numerical identification that is assigned to devices
participating in a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol for communication between its
nodes.
16. Static/Dynamic IPs: An IP address that is the same every time you log on to the internet/
An IP address that changes every time a user connects to the Internet.
17. DNS: Abbreviation for Domain Name Service (or System), a network of servers that
translate web site names (such as www.quotientmarketing.com) into the IP (or Internet Protocol)
addresses that are used to uniquely identify any device connected to the internet.
18. IPV4: Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth iteration of the Internet Protocol (IP)
with four digits.
19. Domain: The Internet is set up hierarchically, the last part of the address tells the type of
general category, for example: .COM - commercial, .EDU - educational institution
20. POTS: Plain Old Telephone Service. The only name recognized around the world for basic
analog telephone service. POTS take the lowest 4kHz of bandwidth on twisted pair wiring.
21. URL: Uniform Resource Locator (URL) the address of a web page on the world wide web
22. HTTP: hypertext transfer protocol: a protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests
and information between servers and browsers.
23. HTML: An initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language
for web pages.
24. Web Authoring Software: A computer program designed to produce web pages for a web
site.
25. Tables: a set of data arranged in rows and columns.
26. Frames: a data packet of fixed or variable length which has been encoded by a data link
layer communications protocol for digital transmission over a node-to-node link.
27. Domain Name Registry: also called Network Information Centre (NIC), is part of the
Domain Name System (DNS).
28. Search engine: a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a
database or from a computer network (especially from the internet).
29. Streaming audio: multimedia that is constantly received by, and normally presented to, an
end-user while it is being delivered by a streaming provider.

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30. Plug-in: A computer program module or device that interacts with another to add a specific
function, or to support a specific file format or device.
31. PDF: Portable Document Format, used to transfer files over the Internet using the Adobe
Acrobat software.
32. Scripts: a programming language that controls a software application.
33. JavaScript: a scripting programming language used to add interactive functions to HTML
pages.
34. Perl: a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
35. Applet: a software component that runs in the context of another program, for example a
web browser. An applet usually performs a very narrow function that has no independent use.
Hence, it is an application -let.
36. Active X: is a Microsoft technology for software componentry. It is used to enable cross-
software communication.
37. XML: eXtensible Markup Language (XML): A widely accepted way of sharing information
over the Internet in a standard, generic way.
38. XHTML: The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that
has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML.
39. SMIL: A markup language based on XML that allows you to create and stream web-based
presentations composed of multiple media types.
40. Ajax: is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive
web applications or rich Internet application
41. Spiders: computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible
resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search
engine.
42. Web crawlers: Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for
later processing by a search engine that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches.
43. Portals: A web portal is a site that provides a single function via a web page or site. Web
portals often function as a point of access to information.
44. Corporate portal: An enterprise portal, also known as an enterprise information portal
(EIP) or corporate portal, is a framework for integrating information, people, etc.
45. Vortal: A web portal is a site that provides a single function via a web page or site.
46. Pull technology: Refers to accessing or extracting information from a different location.
47. Push technology: the technology whereby information is sent directly to a user's
computer.

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48. RSS: RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such
as blog entries, news headlines, etc.
49. Feed: The transmission of video or audio programming from a distribution centre.
50. Aggregators: is client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated web
content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing.
51. Blog: A blog (a contraction of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an
individual, with regular entries of commentary, etc.
52. Vlog : A weblog using video as its primary presentation format.
53. Digital divide:the gulf between those who have ready access to computers and the
Internet and those who don't.
54. Cyberspace : A world of information through the Internet; A three-dimensional
representation of virtual space in a computer network
55. IPTV: IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system where a digital television service is
delivered using Internet Protocol over a network.
56. Podcast: An audio programme in a compressed digital format, delivered via an RSS feed
over the Internet to a subscriber and designed for playback
57. Wiki: A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to
contribute or modify content.
58. Social Bookmarking: Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store,
organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet.
59. Info sphere Infosphere is a term used since the 1990s to speculate about the common
evolution of the Internet, society and culture.
60. E-business The practice of servicing businesses or employees over the Internet.
61. E-commerce commerce conducted electronically (as on the internet).
62. M-commerce Mobile commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services through
wireless handheld devices such as cellular telephones, etc.
63. B2B Business-to-business (B2B) is a term commonly used to describe electronic commerce
transactions between businesses.
64. B2C Business to consumers, conducted over the Internet.
65. Web hosting The service of hosting a site on the Internet making it viewable for other
users on the net.
66. Intranet a restricted computer network; a private network created using World Wide Web
software.
67. Middleware computer software that connects software components or applications.

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68. PayPal -commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through
the Internet.
69. CRM Customer Relationship Management; Credit Risk Management
70. Web Server A Web server is a program that, using the client/server model and the World
Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), serves the files that form Web pages to Web users
71. Filtering Software A filter is a computer program to process a data stream.
72. Digital Cash Electronic money (also known as e-money, electronic cash, electronic
currency,etc.
73. Digital Signatures A Web term referring to signatures for electronic documents. They
establish identity and therefore can be used to establish legal responsibility and the complete
authenticity of whatever they are affixed to, in effect creating a tamper-proof seal.
74. Grid computing Using the resources of many computers in a network at the same time, to
solve a single problem.
75. Distributed computing Computing systems in which services to users are provided by
teams of computers collaborating over a network.
76. Cybersquatting The registration of a well-known brand or company name as an Internet
domain name in the hope of selling it at a later date.
77. Profiling the investigation of a program's behavior.
78. NII National Information Infrastructure.
79. Data driven web site To extract data from target web sites, and save web content to your
database.
80. Rollover Rollover is the ability of a computer keyboard to correctly handle several
simultaneous keystrokes.

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