Web Words You Need to Know
In today’s web economy there are words that you may have never heard before, but need to. Below is a list of 10 terms becoming more and more popular online.
1. Advermation- A combination between advertising and information. Primary purpose is to give information to the viewer more so than marketing to them.
2. Angry Garden Salad- Slang for a poorly designed and incorrectly coded website. Mostly seen when you click a link it and launches something completely different.
3. Cornea Gumbo- An overly animated or graphic website that is visually distracting
4. Infosnacking- Quickly or intermittently getting online throughout the day.
5. Interstitial- An ad that appears in a pop-up browser window when a you move from one page to another. This is not a banner ad and include large graphics, streaming video and applets.
6. Mash-up- When two or more services or tools are combined together to create a new multi-level tool.
7. PeelAway- A pop up ad in the upper right hand corner of a web page. Similar to a page in a book that can be “peeled away” to uncover an ad beneath.
8. Plugoo- A widget that allows you to chat with your website visitors in real time, that is connected to your IM provider.
9. Rasterbator- A compulsive digitally manipulating web designer who obsessively tweaks designs and overuses Photoshop.
10. TweetBeep- A free tracking and alert service that monitors conversations that mention you, your company, etc, and sends you an email when the mentions happen.
There you have it. Ten of the latest and greatest web words that you need to know. Resource used and referenced for this article was Entrepreneur Magazine. For more information see Entrepreneur Magazine February 2009 edition.
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