Exam 4: Searching the Social Web

A(n) ____________________ provides the means for people to conduct conversations online by exchanging messages asynchronously.

The most popular content appears on the front pages of social news sites.

____ news sites enable users to submit news stories or other web pages and vote on news stories posted by others.

In Twitter, type the ____ symbol in front of a twitterer's name to return all messages that contain that name.

Search engine ____ is the process of fine-tuning a web site so that it ranks at the top of search engine results.

The massive and highly varied social content hosted on billions of social media sites is collectively referred to as the crowd web.

A friend is looking for a brief description of wikis, including their origins, their successful uses, and their shortcomings. You offer a brief answer.

Many images on Flickr are made available through a Creative Commons license, which allows content owners to describe the rights they retain while allowing them to share their content.

Videos and graphics are easy to search using keywords.

Flickr is far and away the most visited video sharing site.

All search strategies learned previously are just as effective when searching the social networks.

Which of the following is a social bookmarking site?

Discuss copyrights and licenses with regard to images on photo and video sharing sites. Include the Creative Commons license in your answer.

____________________ dominates the Q&A site landscape, with over 1.5 million unique monthly visitors.

When a blog owner publishes an entry or a reader publishes a comment, it is referred to as ____.

You get an e-mail from a friend who is trying to understand the difference between social bookmarking and social news sites. He knows that you have had more experience with this and asks you to help explain the difference.

A ____ is server software that lets anyone create and modify web page content.