Normal service has been resumed…
The BBC ran an article last month with the above title which I found pretty interesting. The article was based on a survey by Neilsen/Net Ratings entitled the 21st Century UK Digital Consumer.
We often see stories running in the news about new ‘technological’ words that have become mainstream and are being added to the latest revision of dictionaries, yet the survey shows that even though people are using the new technologies most of them do not know the correct terms to describe them.
Although, I have to admit that some of the terms used in the survey were unknown even to me – do you know the meanings of all of them?
VOD – video-on-demand
Wikis – Collaborative technology for editing websites
IPTV – internet protocol television
RSS – Really Simple Syndication alias automated news feeds
PVR – personal video recorder
Web 2.0 – user-generated content phase of internet
Triple-play – internet, TV and phone in one subscription
VoIP – voice over internet protocol
IM – instant messaging
Blogging – frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts on the web
Podcasting – internet broadcasting for playback on MP3 players
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