The language of e-business: 10 tech terms from 2004
It seems like internet brings new words in to the world every now and then. The language of e-business: 10 tech terms from 2004 ..... I read this article in a web portal. This is a collection of few of those techno-jargons. It's quite intresting......
Bangalored - If your hot IT job is outsourced to India, you've been "Bangalored".
Blog - Amazingly enough, there are still people that don't know what a blog is. According to Merriam-Webster, "blog" topped the list of words that people looked up at its site in 2004.
Gatesed - If you encounter one of the unfortunate side-effects of using Microsoft technology, you've been "Gatesed." In typical IT usage, "If it Gatesed (BSOD), you were SOL.
Hot spot - Some people think that hot spots have something to do with the origins of volcanoes, while others think they are just the preferred lounge locations for cats and dogs. In the world of IT, though, the term refers to places that have wireless Internet connections. Many national and local retailers, especially coffee shops, are adding wireless hot spots to provide the tech-savvy another reason to stop in and spend.
Mouselexia - The inability to use a mouse correctly. Some people are naturally mouselexic, while others are just struck with mouselexia when an IT guru is looking over their shoulder.
Offshored - Politically correct term for having your job outsourced to another country. See "Bangalored".
Netlag - The unfortunate physical side-effects of being online for an extended period of time. According to The chronicle of Higher Education, "the condition resembles jetlag, but can also entail eye and muscle strain". You knew there was a word for it!
Phish - Email has a way of giving words new meaning. First it was "spam"; now it's "phishing".Phishing is using email or other Internet technology to trick people into giving up their passwords, credit card numbers or other private information. The most common scams involve sending legitimate-looking e-mails to hundreds of thousands of email addresses. The emails are built with HTML and look like real messages from legitimate ebusinesses. Recipients that click on any of the email links are taken to bogus sites, though, that are designed to capture people's private info.
Podcasting - Give a geek an iPod, and what's he going to do? Write a script to automatically fill it with interesting content.That, in a nutshell, is what podcasting is - a simple technology that lets users subscribe to a Internet audio broadcast, and have it automatically downloaded and synched to a portable media player (iPod). Podcasters create RSS XML feeds that contain links to MP3 files, along with a brief description of the file's contents. Many types of podcasts are already available, including music, sermons, talk shows and educational programming.
Tipping p - A phrase popularized by Malcom Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference." In 2004, the phrase became a cliche applied to any technology that people were starting to become interested in. There are hundreds of thousands of blog entries about "The Tipping Point", which means that the term has probably reached some sort of tipping point in the blog-o-sphere.
Bangalored - If your hot IT job is outsourced to India, you've been "Bangalored".
Blog - Amazingly enough, there are still people that don't know what a blog is. According to Merriam-Webster, "blog" topped the list of words that people looked up at its site in 2004.
Gatesed - If you encounter one of the unfortunate side-effects of using Microsoft technology, you've been "Gatesed." In typical IT usage, "If it Gatesed (BSOD), you were SOL.
Hot spot - Some people think that hot spots have something to do with the origins of volcanoes, while others think they are just the preferred lounge locations for cats and dogs. In the world of IT, though, the term refers to places that have wireless Internet connections. Many national and local retailers, especially coffee shops, are adding wireless hot spots to provide the tech-savvy another reason to stop in and spend.
Mouselexia - The inability to use a mouse correctly. Some people are naturally mouselexic, while others are just struck with mouselexia when an IT guru is looking over their shoulder.
Offshored - Politically correct term for having your job outsourced to another country. See "Bangalored".
Netlag - The unfortunate physical side-effects of being online for an extended period of time. According to The chronicle of Higher Education, "the condition resembles jetlag, but can also entail eye and muscle strain". You knew there was a word for it!
Phish - Email has a way of giving words new meaning. First it was "spam"; now it's "phishing".Phishing is using email or other Internet technology to trick people into giving up their passwords, credit card numbers or other private information. The most common scams involve sending legitimate-looking e-mails to hundreds of thousands of email addresses. The emails are built with HTML and look like real messages from legitimate ebusinesses. Recipients that click on any of the email links are taken to bogus sites, though, that are designed to capture people's private info.
Podcasting - Give a geek an iPod, and what's he going to do? Write a script to automatically fill it with interesting content.That, in a nutshell, is what podcasting is - a simple technology that lets users subscribe to a Internet audio broadcast, and have it automatically downloaded and synched to a portable media player (iPod). Podcasters create RSS XML feeds that contain links to MP3 files, along with a brief description of the file's contents. Many types of podcasts are already available, including music, sermons, talk shows and educational programming.
Tipping p - A phrase popularized by Malcom Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference." In 2004, the phrase became a cliche applied to any technology that people were starting to become interested in. There are hundreds of thousands of blog entries about "The Tipping Point", which means that the term has probably reached some sort of tipping point in the blog-o-sphere.
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