Exam 5: User-Generated Content on the Internet

Some instant messaging software programs refer to online contacts as "buddies" or "friends."

Sharing photos on the Web can be done privately or publicly, depending on your goal.

The term "podcast" is a combination of the words "iPod" and "broadcasting."

Sometimes the link to subscribe to feeds is a text link with the letters "____" to indicate the file format of the syndicated content.

The practice of reading messages and not contributing to the discussion is called _________________________.

YouTube was started in ____ as a private venture.

Facebook, which began in 2004 as a closed network for college students and later was expanded to include high school students, was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, then a student at ____ University.

Chat participants might use common acronyms as a typing shortcut for common expressions, such as "c u" for "____."

MATCHING -a term related to mashups

In a chat room, the practice of reading messages and not contributing to the discussion is called peeping. _________________________

A blog is a frequently updated Web site that expresses the opinions of the author(s), with content that is focused on a specific topic. _________________________

The first instant messaging program, ICQ, started in ____, and still has millions of worldwide users.

A(n) ____ is a discussion group that occurs over a computer network with many users contributing to a specific topic.

A social _________________________ is a general term that refers to any community of people who use the Internet to share information.

The following is NOT an example of pull technology: ____.

A blog often contains ____.

_________________________ postings are sometimes referred to as tweets.

VoIP is an acronym for Voice over Internet ____.

A feed might include ____.

Google ____ is one resource that categorizes blogs for searching.