All About Coding
Acronymania
That's Some Back-End!
Socialism Rules!
Socially Obscure
100
An interface in which content during editing looks like the final product
What is WYSIWYG?
100
A company that provides access to the Internet
What is an ISP? (Internet Service Provider)
100
an open source database software which can be employed in combination with most server-side languages, but which is most commonly employed with PHP
What is MySQL?
100
a conjunction of Twitter and "peeps", commonly used to refer to the Twitter followers of someone
What is a Tweep?
100
A social bookmarking service that provides a code users can put on their websites so that when people visit that site, they have the option to share via Facebook, Twitter, etc.
What is AddThis?
200
a format for sharing web content to other programs or web sites
What is RSS?
200
an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web
What is W3C? (World Wide Web Consortium)
200
A programming package that enables a programmer to develop applications for a specific platform. Typically it may include one or more APIs, programming tools, and documentation.
What is a SDK (software development kit)?
200
This service assigns a score 1-100 to measure a user's social influence
What is Klout?
200
A social media analytics company that helps companies measure their social engagement. Previously, the service started as a blog comment search engine.
What is BackType?
300
This group of technologies generally refers to free and open source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. It is helpful to define a Web-related domain such as server infrastructure or programming language for development.
What is LAMP? (an acronym based on Linux (operating system), Apache (Web server), MySQL (database system) and PHP (programming language))
300
The common method of interacting with a computer that allows any graphics image to be displayed on screen (hint: Windows and Mac are examples)
What is a GUI? (Graphical User Interface)
300
the protocol for exchanging files over the Internet
What is FTP? (File Transfer Protocol)
300
An application that connects users with contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and more
What is TweetDeck?
300
Clusters of a user's friends on Google+
What are circles?
400
a generic format intended for maximum flexibility to provide information in a wide variety of structural formats (hint: including RSS)
What is XML? (or Extensible Markup Language)
400
a digital version of the traditional paper- based medical record for an individual
What is an EMR? (electronic medical record)
400
In the computer world, this refers to the top-level directory of a file system
What is root?
400
A facilitated, participant-driven conference centered on a theme or purpose
What is an unconference?
400
A comment system and moderation tool that lets you add next-gen community management and social web integration to any site on any platform.
What is Disqus?
500
a method to utilize the abilities of Javascript, the Document Object Model, and XML to create interactivity on the web
What is AJAX? (an acronym for Asynchronous Javascript and XML)
500
The basic processes that are applied to data
What is CRUD? (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete)
500
Configuration file used by an Apache Web server that provides instructions for different directories of a website; "htaccess" is short for HTTP access, which is the protocol used for transmitting Web pages.
What is .htaccess? (short for HTTP access)
500
Refers to the new look for Facebook
What is Timeline?
500
A social network in which friends share their locations and connect with others in close physical proximity to each other.
What is Gowalla?
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