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29.04 Fomo
Fomo is one of those acronyms we are seeing more and more on the web: it means "Fear of Missing Out". Nothing to do with FMI (For More Information) or "Fauxmosexual” (someone who looks and acts (...) -
08.04 Plug in
“All you need is a plug-in, and your problem’s sorted". It makes the "plug-in" sound to the geek like medicine to the patient. In reality, a plug-in is really more of a palliative: it’s a piece of (...) -
14.03 SEM
In researching the word “SEO” (search engine optimisation), I discovered that there’s a whole debate on the web: is SEA (search engine advertising) the same thing as SEM (search engine marketing), (...) -
27.02 Crawler
This Crawler, a word suggested by Sophie Licari, is not one you’ll find in the next lane at the swimming pool. It’s a software programme used by search engines (e.g. Google) to trawl the web (...) -
09.01 Fail
As we all know, if you fail it means you’ve – well, screwed up. Spectacularly, in fact, if you do it online (and countless people do) or, especially, on Twitter. Here, if you try to tweet and see (...)
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My NetWords
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My NetWords
If you are already familiar with words like Google bombing, blogola, Twitter, crowdsourcing, mashup, poke and status, then read no further. If not, we present “MyNetWords – your critical guide to webspeak”. The idea of this glossary (written by Marie Muzard) is to answer the questions of (...) -
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FAQ
More and more of you are suggesting words to me and asking me questions like, “When are you going to publish my word, how do you decide?” or “Why haven’t you clarified such and such a definition?” I hope this FAQ section will give you the answers — if not, just write to me. 1. How do you choose the (...) -
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