David Thiel on Apr 14 2008 | Filed under: JARGON
Sweding is a term coined in the movie “Be Kind, Rewind” (see the wikipedia entry about the movie.) It’s best described as when fans “take classic films and remake them into short films using videotape, a virtually nonexistent budget, amateur actors, and insane amounts of creativity.” (quote from alwayswatching.org).
The movie’s makers have capitalized on the […]
David Thiel on Nov 05 2007 | Filed under: JARGON
While most of us call them “doohickies” or “thingamabobs” a chicklet is a small graphic which ties to a larger web service. Examples include the “bookmark this” buttons and icons you see on sites, the Facebook “+Share” link embedded on pages, and small icons for Digg/Delicious/Sphere/etc. found all over the place.
What’s notable about a […]
David Thiel on Oct 22 2007 | Filed under: JARGON, Online Behavior
To scrobble is to grab information on a users personal computer, upload and add it to a database online, and then make it available to other services or social networking applications.
An important aspect of scrobbling is how it’s different from “uploading” or “updating” or “linking” in that information which is suitable for scrobbling is both […]
David Thiel on Oct 15 2007 | Filed under: JARGON, Security and Privacy
Both these terms represent methods by which thieves try to steal personal information or money. The important difference between them is:
Phishing is a CON GAME in which emails or fake web sites are constructed in order to trick users into entering their personal information. In a large sense, you can defend yourself against […]
David Thiel on Oct 08 2007 | Filed under: JARGON
As you know, inbound links are “good.” They not only bring traffic, but they increase the social network around a site and dramatically boost pagerank in the major search engines. Linkbait is just that — content specifically designed to increase inbound links and promote shareability… and sometimes that means that the value of […]
