(30.05) The guide

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• 30.08 I life

  iLife is the name of a suite of software applications developed by Apple that enables you to do lots of fun things with photos, movies and music so you feel like a real photographer, director or (...)

• 12.07 Plus one

  "Plus one me"! But why would someone ask you to do this? This use of "plus one" as a verb is a very recent invention, a product of web 2.0, and was suggested by Ducanben. It deserves an entry in (...)

• 30.05 Cybersquatting

  Spexis drew my attention to a new practice that’s popular on the web despite being thoroughly reprehensible: cybersquatting. Cybersquatting consists of registering an internet domain name (which, (...)

• 16.05 Capsule Video

  For weeks now, we’ve been hearing a new phrase on the lips of the web marketers (specialists in marketing and communication on the web): capsule video. Video, we know. Capsule, we can figure out. (...)

• 10.05 Autoblog

  When Ducanben suggested we should have a definition of "autoblog", I thought this must be a perfect example of tautology, because a blog is, by definition, something you do yourself that doesn’t (...)

• 19.04 Captcha

  Example of a captcha A captcha isn’t a mispronunciation of Chapka, the name for those Russian fur hats. In fact it’s not Russian at all, but an acronym, and a rather tedious one at that: (...)

• 11.04 FML

  Don’t be surprised if you get an email, SMS or post that ends with the simple acronym “FML”. The sender – most probably young – is using an expression much in favour with digital natives, taken from (...)

• 28.03 Dematerialisation

  Dematerialisation, a term suggested by Bertrand Olivier, may be a mouthful to say but more and more geeks, IT specialists and managers generally are using it. It was originally used to describe (...)

• 21.03 Leak

  Leaks, as we know, can strike fear into governments, companies and celebrities alike. Ducanben suggested we include the term. Leaking is not specific to the web, as documents (your product launch (...)

• 23.02 Streisand effect

  Who would have expected a singer and actress in her seventies (not exactly a digital native) to coin a popular new online term: the Streisand Effect? This expression, suggested by Nora Neko and (...)

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