Internet terminology Internet terminology Ad filtering or ad blocking is a service which removes or alters advertising content in a webpage. This content can be represented in a variety of ways including pictures, animations, text, or pop-up windows. More advanced filters allow fine-grained control of advertisements through features like blacklists, whitelists, and regular expression filters. Certain security features also have the effect of disabling some ads. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ad filtering"
Ad serving describes the technology and service that places advertisements on web sites. Ad serving technology companies provide software to web sites and advertisers to serve ads, count them, choose the ads that will make the web site or advertiser most money, and monitor progress of different advertising campaigns. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ad serving"
Anti-leech is a technique that specializes in protecting file downloads and stopping bandwidth leeching. If a user tries to download a file they will be redirected to a faulty file. It is quite popular you might say on download websites. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anti-leech"
Bandwidth hogs are otherwise legitimate users of a paid or free service who use so much bandwidth that it adversely affects other users or the company's ability to make a profit. This should not be confused with bandwidth theft, which is the unauthorized use of bandwidth, such as connecting to someone's network without permission. For example, a home or university Internet connection is usually meant for web surfing, moderate file downloading and gaming. If a person downloads a large number of songs or movies on a regular basis, bandwidth usage may reach unacceptable levels, perhaps 100 times that of an average user, causing the connection of nearby users to suffer and costing the company more money. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bandwidth hogging"
A BitTorrent Party (or BTP) is a scheduled event in which mass amounts of people download a chosen file at a particular time using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol. It is often referred to as a "Bit Party". ...more on Wikipedia about "BitTorrent Party"
A blammer is one who posts unwanted comments to a blog, a "blog spammer". Blog spam is sometimes referred to as "comment spam". ...more on Wikipedia about "Blammer"
A blog is a website in which journal entries are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a "blogger". A blog comprises hypertext, images, and links (to other webpages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular "area of interest", such as Washington, D.C.'s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blog" Whatever You're Into, Get Into www.shortopedia.com. shortopedia
Blogjacking (or Blogsquatting) involves placing information, normally links to a website, on a blog that would otherwise have to be paid for. This is accomplished through the use of leaving comments on posts relevant to the content you are promoting. A person known to do this would be considered a blogjacker. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blogjacking"
Blogosphere (alternate: BlogSphere or BloggingSphere) is the collective term encompassing all weblogs or blogs as a community or social network. Many weblogs are densely interconnected; bloggers read others' blogs, link to them, reference them in their own writing, and post comments on each others' blogs. Because of this, the interconnected blogs have grown their own culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blogosphere"
To bump a thread on an internet forum is to post a reply in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. This is also called thread necromancy, or gravedigging, as old threads are said to be dying or dead. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bump (internet)"
Catblogging (traditionally "Friday catblogging") is the practice of posting pictures of cats, in typical cat postures and expressions, on a blog. Sometimes a comment on the cat or the situation shown is provided. ...more on Wikipedia about "Catblogging"
A chatkill is a term mostly used in online chatrooms to describe an indeterminate length of awkward silence. Usually preceded by a chatroom user writing something out of topic and/or context which causes the flow of all conversations to halt. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chatkill"
Cost Per Click or CPC (as it is often initialized to) is a phrase often used in online advertising and online marketing circles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cost Per Click"
Cost Per Impression is a phrase often used in online advertising and marketing related to web traffic. It is used for measuring the worth and cost of a specific e-marketing campaign. This technique is applied with web banners, text links, e-mail spam, and opt-in e-mail advertising. (Although opt-in e-mail advertising is more commonly charged on a CPA basis.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Cost Per Impression"
Crawling in my skin is a term in reference to Linkin Park's song " Crawling" in which these lyrics are uttered in a loud, intense and angry voice by the band's lead vocalist, Chester. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crawling in my skin"
Crossposting is the act of posting verbatim copies of one message on multiple message centers, without customising each copy to suit the audience or forum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crossposting"
Danked, the past participle of "dank", is used to refer to someone who replies to their own post on an online forum posing as another person (see Internet sock puppet) but forgetting to change their username. The poster's intention may be to "bump" the thread to a higher position on the page, or to create the illusion of consensus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Danked"
Disemvoweling (also spelled disemvowelling) is a technique used by forum moderators to suppress trolling, vandalism, and other rude behavior in online discourse by removing all the vowels from the offending material. The disemvoweled text can still be read, or rather puzzled out, but it is clearly marked as deprecated and is no longer susceptible to being automatically read by every passer-by who happens to glance at it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Disemvoweling"
Dot-com (also dotcom or redundantly dot.com) companies were the collection of start-up companies selling products or services using or somehow related to the Internet. They proliferated in the late 1990s dot-com boom, a speculative frenzy of investment in Internet and Internet-related technical stocks and enterprises. The name derives from the fact that many of them have the " .com" internet top-level domain suffix built into their company name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dot-com"
Electronic mail, abbreviated e-mail or email, is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. The term e-mail applies both to the Internet e-mail system based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and to intranet systems allowing users within one company or organization to send messages to each other. Often these workgroup collaboration systems natively use non-standard protocols but have some form of gateway to allow them to send and receive Internet e-mail. Some organizations may use the Internet protocols for internal e-mail service. ...more on Wikipedia about "E-mail"
E-mail spoofing is a technique commonly used for spam email and phishing to hide the origin of an e-mail message. This involves changing certain properties of the e-mail, such as the From, Return-Path and Reply-To fields (which can be found in the message header) to make the e-mail appear to be from someone other than the actual sender. ...more on Wikipedia about "E-mail spoofing"
E-procurement (Electronic Procurement) is the business-to-business purchase and sale of supplies and services through the Internet as well as other information and networking systems, such as electronic data interchange (EDI) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). An important part of many B2B sites, e-procurement is also sometimes referred to by other terms, such as supplier exchange. Typically, e-procurement Web sites allow qualified and registered users to look for buyers or sellers of goods and services. Depending on the approach, buyers or sellers may specify prices or invite bids. Transactions can be initiated and completed. Ongoing purchases may qualify customers for volume discounts or special offers. E-procurement software may make it possible to automate some buying and selling. Companies participating expect to be able to control parts inventories more effectively, reduce purchasing agent overhead, and improve manufacturing cycles. E-procurement is expected to be integrated with the trend toward computerized supply chain management. ...more on Wikipedia about "E-procurement"
The idiom "film at 11" originates from television newsbroadcasting. Traditionally, it follows a promotion aired earlier in the evening for a particular (and often a breaking or sensational) story to be detailed on a later local news broadcast at 11 p.m., a traditional timeslot for local news broadcasts in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Film at 11"
"First Post!" is an Internet phenomenon on Internet discussion groups (notably Slashdot and LiveJournal), where participants strive to be the first person to "post" a comment to a new article or discussion thread. This terminology dates back to the days of the BBS, when one would post a comment, much as one would post a reply on a physical bulletin board. The phenomenon is largely confined to sites that have reached a high degree of popularity, such that users are genuinely surprised to see an article without any associated comments. There is also the necessary condition that comments are displayed in chronological order (meaning the first message is the most prominently displayed). It is prevalent among user-commentary sites and does not often appear on conventional webboards, community journals, etc. ...more on Wikipedia about "First post"
In internet wiki culture, a GodKing is a system administrator who uses administrative privileges excessively and with absolute authority, giving other users the impression of being ruled by a godlike monarch. In the spirit of " absolute power corrupts absolutely", GodKings are viewed very negatively. ...more on Wikipedia about "GodKing" Don't hesitate to contact stuff on http://www.shortopedia.com
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