(14.03) The guide

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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 (...)

• 20.12 Flooding

  According to Duncanben, who suggested the word, flooding consists of “flooding a network, forum or chatroom with repetitive or useless messages”. Some would go so far as to label any “off subject” (...)

• 19.11 ARG

  ARG is the acronym for “alternate reality game”, a mystery game that takes place alternately on the web and in real life and relies heavily on the most innovative technology. The first ARG worthy (...)

• 17.10 HTML 5

  When Spexis suggested I produce a definition of HTML5 I can’t say I was overcome with enthusiasm. The amount of effort it took to define its ancestor "HTML" already had me tearing my hair out. But (...)

• 17.10 Serious game

  One of France’s major trade unions has chosen 1 May 2011, the traditional workers’ holiday, to launch the first union-sponsored serious game, presumably designed to recruit new members among the (...)

• 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 (...)

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