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Name	Acronym	Description	Picture/Movie
.Cool Sites	bbb	Interested on online games: GAMES Get industry-specific email newsletters: NEWS
Advergaming	agm	Advergaming is the practice of using video games to advertise a product, organization or viewpoint. The term "advergames" was coined in Wired's "Jargon Watch" column in 2001, and has been applied to various free online games commissioned by major companies.	View Image
Aggregator	agg	An aggregator or news aggregator or feed reader is a client software that uses web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as blogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results. Aggregator features are being built into portal sites such as My Yahoo! and Google; modern web browsers; and e-mail programs.	View Image
Ajax	Ajax	AJAX, is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This is intended to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, functionality, and usability. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Ajax is asynchronous in that loading does not interfere with normal page loading. JavaScript is the programming language in which Ajax function calls are made.	View Image
Augmented Reality	AR	Here's an example of a great new tool that's already being mishandled. Read the article but, in a nutshell, AR allows the brand to use interactive where the user can use the utility to see things dimensionally. But to be effective, it needs to be more than a gimmick like how USPS used it here in this article. Try it yourself: Augmented Reality Example	View Image
Avatar	avt	As described on the pages of SECOND LIFE website. Here's an example of U2 I found on YOUTUBE. Click on the image to take a look at SECOND LIFE and how you can create an avatar.	View Movie
Bandwidth	bnd	When used to discuss digital communication, the meaning of "bandwidth" is clouded by metaphorical use. Technicians sometimes use it as slang for baud rate, the rate at which symbols may be transmitted through the system. It is also used more colloquially to describe channel capacity, the rate at which bits may be transmitted through the system.	View Image
Branded Content	brcnt	Branded Content is a relatively new form of advertising medium that blurs conventional distinctions between what constitutes advertising and what constitutes entertainment. Branded content is essentially a fusion of the two into one product intended to be distributed as entertainment content, albeit with a highly branded quality. Branded content, unlike conventional forms of entertainment content, is generally funded entirely by a brand or corporation rather than, for example, a film studio or a group of producers. The notion of an advertiser or company producing something engaging for the consumer in order to sell more product has been around for decades. The term branded content, however, really took hold as a new marketing technique in 2001, when BMW films was produced and distributed on the internet and DVDs. It featured a series of short films by Hollywood "A-List" directors, with the BMW car as the real star of the action. The popularity of these films spurred other marketers to create films, music, games, interactive content and real-life events. This content merely exists to entertain and educate the consumer, keeping their attention long enough to market a product or service. The most successful branded content programs are able to blend the advertising message in a seamless and transparent fashion, while still getting the information across to the consumer.	View Image
Branded Entertainment	brnd	Branded Entertainment, sometimes called brand integration, is the combination of an audio-visual program (TV, radio, podcast, etc.) and a brand. It can be initiated either by the brand or by the broadcaster. The purpose of a branded entertainment program is to give the opportunity for brands to promote their brand image to their target audience by creating positive links between the brand and the program in the viewers. ADWEEK has a website dedicated to BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT.	View Image
Content Delivery Network	CDN	Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a term coined in the late 1990s to describe a system of computers networked together across the Internet that cooperate transparently to deliver content (especially large media content) to end users.	View Image
Content Management System	cms	A Content Management System (CMS) (here is a good link to one CMS system that has flash animation about how a content manager might work) is a software system used for content management. This includes computer files, image media, audio files, electronic documents and web content. The idea behind a CMS is to make these files available inter-office, as well as over the web. A Content Management System would most often be used as archival as well. A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to web sites.	View Image
Content provider	cp	A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls. On a conceptual level, value-added services add value to the standard service offering, spurring the subscriber to use their phone more and allowing the operator to drive up their ARPU. For mobile phones, while technologies like SMS, MMS and GPRS are usually considered value-added services, a distinction may also be made between standard (peer-to-peer) content and premium-charged content.
Customer Relationship Management	crm	Customer relationship management (CRM) is a broad term that covers concepts used by organizations to manage their relationships with customers, including collecting, storing and analyzing customer information.
Dynamic web page	dwp	Classical hypertext navigation occurs among "static" documents, and, for web users, this experience is reproduced using static web pages. However, web navigation can also provide an interactive experience that is termed "dynamic". Content (text, images, form fields, etc.) on a web page can change, in response to different contexts or conditions. There are two ways to create this kind of interactivity: - Using client-side scripting to change interface behaviors within a specific web page, in response to mouse or keyboard actions or at specified timing events. - Using server-side scripting to change the supplied page source between pages, adjusting the sequence or reload of the web pages or web content supplied to the browser. Server responses may be determined by such conditions as data in a posted HTML form, parameters in the URL, the type of browser being used, the passage of time, or a database or server state.	View Image
E-commerce	e-c	Electronic Commerce is exactly analogous to a marketplace on the Internet. Electronic Commerce (also referred to as EC, e-commerce eCommerce or ecommerce) consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.	View Image
Extensible Markup Language	xml	The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language.[1] Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of data across different information systems, particularly via the Internet.[2]	View Image
Extranet	ext	An extranet is a private network that uses Internet protocols, network connectivity, and possibly the public telecommunication system to securely share part of an organization's information or operations with suppliers, vendors, partners, customers or other businesses. An extranet can be viewed as part of a company's Intranet that is extended to users outside the company (e.g.: normally over the Internet). It has also been described as a "state of mind" in which the Internet is perceived as a way to do business with other companies as well as to sell products to customers.	View Image
Facebook	Face	Facebook is a social networking website which was launched on February 4, 2004. Initially the membership was restricted to students of Harvard University. It was subsequently expanded to other Boston area schools as well as Stanford, Northwestern, and all Ivy League schools within two months. Eventually, people with a university (e.g .edu) email address from institutions across the globe were eligible to join. Networks were then initiated for high schools and some large companies. Since September 11, 2006, it has been made available to any email address[2] user who inputs a certain age range. Users can select to join one or more participating networks, such as a high school, place of employment, or geographic region. As of July 2007, the website had the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites with over 34 million active members worldwide (also from non-collegiate networks).[3] In July 2007[4] it was ranked between top 10�13 web sites, and was the number one site for photos in the United States, ahead of public sites such as Flickr, with over 8.5 million photos uploaded daily.[5]	View Image
Final cut editing	f-c	Final Cut Pro is a professional non-linear editing system developed by Apple Inc. that has found popularity amongst independent filmmakers and Hollywood film editors alike. The program has the ability to edit many digital formats including, SD, HDV, HD, 2K, 4K, and Imax film formats.	View Image
Flash	flsh	Strictly speaking, Adobe Flash Professional is an integrated development environment (IDE) while Flash Player is a virtual machine used to run, or parse, the Flash files. But in contemporary colloquial terms "Flash" can refer to the authoring environment, the player, or the application files. On a website, FLASH can be used as traditional animation (i.e. character animation) as in this example or it can be used for graphical animation to make a website graphics more interesting.	View Movie
Frequently Asked Question(s)	faq	FAQ is an initialism for "Frequently Asked Question(s)". The term refers to listed questions and answers, all supposed to be frequently asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. Since the acronym originated in textual media, its pronunciation varies; both "fak" and "F.A.Q." are commonly heard. Depending on usage, the term may refer specifically to a single frequently-asked question, or to an assembled list of many questions and their answers.
Geo-fencing	Geo	Geo-fencing draws a virtual perimeter around a particular location. When someone steps into the geo-fenced area, a text message is sent, but only if consumers have opted in to receive messages.	View Image
Graphical User Interface	gui	A graphical user interface (GUI, often pronounced gooey) is a type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer and computer-controlled devices which employ graphical icons, visual indicators or special graphical elements called "widgets", along with text labels or text navigation to represent the information and actions available to a user. The actions are usually performed through direct manipulation of the graphical elements.	View Image
HD TV Cameras	HDTVCam		View Image
High-definition television	HDTV	High-definition television (HDTV) is a digital television broadcasting system with a significantly higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL). While some early analog HDTV formats were broadcast in Europe and Japan, HDTV is usually broadcast digitally, because digital television (DTV) broadcasting requires much less bandwidth. HDTV technology was first introduced in the US during the 1990s by a group of electronics companies called the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance.[1][2]
Hyperlink	lnk	A hyperlink (often referred to as simply a link), is a reference or navigation element in a document to another section of the same document, another document, or a specified section of another document, that automatically brings the referred information to the user when the navigation element is selected by the user. As such it is similar to a citation in literature, but with the distinction of automatic instant access. Combined with a data network and suitable access protocol, a computer can be instructed to fetch the resource referenced. In this document, for example, links are embedded and in BLUE. Or try this: A link to a movie page (notice it's in blue) .	View Image
Hypertext Markup Language	html	HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document � by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on � and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags), surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than signs (>). HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.	View Image
Hypertext Preprocessor	php	PHP (PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor) is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages.[1] PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting, but can be used from a command line interface or in standalone graphical applications. Click here to see what an rss.php looks like.	View Image
Intellectual Property	Ip	In law, intellectual property (IP) is an umbrella term for various legal entitlements which attach to certain names, written and recorded media, and inventions. The holders of these legal entitlements are generally entitled to exercise various exclusive rights in relation to the subject matter of the IP. The term intellectual property reflects the idea that this subject matter is the product of the mind or the intellect, though the term is a matter of some controversy.	View Image
Interface (see GUI also)	int	The user interface is the aggregate of means by which people (the users) interact with a particular machine, device, computer program or other complex tool (the system). The user interface provides means of: Input, allowing the users to manipulate a system Output, allowing the system to produce the effects of the users' manipulation.	View Image
Internet 2.0	int 2	Internet2 is a collaboration among more than 100 U.S. universities to develop networking and advanced applications for learning and research. Since much teaching, learning, and collaborative research may require real-time multimedia and high-bandwidth interconnection, a major aspect of Internet2 is adding sufficient network infrastructure to support such applications	View Image
Internet tv	itv
Intranet	int	An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet protocols, network connectivity to securely share part of an organization's information or operations with its employees. Sometimes the term refers only to the most visible service, the internal website. The same concepts and technologies of the Internet such as clients and servers running on the Internet protocol suite are used to build an intranet. HTTP and other Internet protocols are commonly used as well, FTP.There is often an attempt to use Internet technologies to provide new interfaces with corporate 'legacy' data and information systems.
Java	java
Mash-ups	mash	A video mashup is the combination of multiple sources of video�which usually have no relevance with each other�into a derivative work often lampooning its component sources, or another text. They are one of the latest genre of mashups, and are gaining popularity. Some exceptional word associated mashups include "Must Love Jaws", a combination of the romantic comedy Must Love Dogs and Jaws in which music cues and humorous scenes turn visual source material from Jaws into a story about a man who falls in love with a shark. Here's a link to some mashups. Have fun!!!	View Image
Message board	brd	An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion boards, (electronic) discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards, *fora[1]* (the Latin plural) or simply forums**. The term "forum" and "board" may refer to the entire community, or a specific sub-forum dealing with a distinct topic. Messages within these sub-forums are then displayed either in chronological order or as threaded discussions.	View Image
Metrics	mtc	Metrics are a system of parameters or ways of quantitative and periodic assessment of a process that is to be measured, along with the procedures to carry out such measurement and the procedures for the interpretation of the assessment in the light of previous or comparable assessments. Metrics are usually specialized by the subject area, in which case they are valid only within a certain domain and cannot be directly benchmarked or interpreted outside it.	View Image
Multimedia	mult		View Image
Multiplatform	multiplatform
Mysql	mysql	MySQL is popular for web applications and acts as the database component of the LAMP, MAMP, and WAMP platforms (Linux/Mac/Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python), and for open-source bug tracking tools like Bugzilla. Its popularity as a web application is closely tied to the popularity of PHP, which is often combined with MySQL. PHP and MySQL are essential components for running the popular WordPress blogging platform. Wikipedia runs on MediaWiki software, which also uses PHP and a MySQL database.
New media	new	New media is a broad term that usually refers to new technologies and communication methods in the context of their effects on the established mainstream media. Originally this term was used by the pioneer Website developers to differentiate their techniques from the other methods of communication that shared the "media budget" within a company. This allowed the suggestion of new vs. old while at the same time establishing a claim on the budget available [[1]]. Over time the term was used to refer to anything that was Internet-related[[2]]. The proponents of the term argue that, because emerging technologies tend to be Internet-related, new media can be considered a superset of Web 2.0.
Non-linear editing	nle	Non-linear editing for film and television postproduction is a modern editing method which involves being able to access any frame in a video clip with the same ease as any other. This method is similar in concept to the "cut and glue" technique used in film editing from the beginning. However, when working with film, it is a destructive process, as the actual film negative must be cut. Non-linear, non-destructive methods began to appear with the introduction of digital video technology.
Online Applications	onapps	Here's an example of an online application from GOOGLE. Their description is, "Whether you're a family, a club with chapters nationwide, or an international association, Google Apps will let your members communicate and work together online, all for free. Google Apps lets you offer email, instant messaging, and calendar accounts on your own domain name (for example, jsmith@your-group.com), to keep your group close and build its online identity. You can also design and publish web pages to show others what you're all about." This may be the future where all your applications are online and you only need your computer for saving documents. And even that may be better saved online as well so you can access all your apps and documents from anywhere!!!	View Image
Online games 3D	gm		View Image
Permalink	p-link	(addition requested by Marci Selsberg) In the words of Allan Hoffman of The Star Ledger, "You can probably guess what this stands for--permanent link. Just as blog entries often include a link for track-backs, they also include permalinks. Click on the permalink label for a blgo entry and you will be shuttled to a Web page that's the permanent home for that entry." And from Wikipedia: Permalink. An example on my blog: Example.	View Image
Photogrammetry	phtg	Photogrammetry is a remote sensing technology in which geometric properties about objects are determined from photographic images. For example, the three-dimensional coordinates of points on an object are determined by measurements made in two or more photographic images taken from different positions (see stereoscopy).	View Movie
Platform	pf
Podcasts	pod	Video podcast (sometimes called vidcast or vodcast) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. The term is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the generally audio-based podcast and referring to the distribution of video where the RSS feed is used as a non-linear TV channel to which consumers can subscribe using a PC, TV, set-top box, media center or mobile multimedia device.
Raster Graphics	rgph	A raster graphics image, digital image, or bitmap, is a data file or structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of colour, on a computer monitor, paper, or other display medium. The colour of each pixel is individually defined; images in the RGB colour space, for instance, often consist of coloured pixels defined by three bytes � one byte each for red, green and blue. Less colourful images require less information per pixel; for example, an image with only black and white pixels requires only a single bit for each pixel. Raster graphics are distinguished from vector graphics in that vector graphics represent an image through the use of geometric objects such as curves and polygons. TRANSLATION: A cgi spot using color	View Image
Rich Media Advertising	rmedia
RSS	rss	RSS is an XML-based format that allows the syndication of lists of hyperlinks, along with other information, or metadata, that helps viewers decide whether they want to follow the link. Here is an example of the rss from Blah Blah Blah: Link	View Image
Second Life	2nd	Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 6,240,591 people from around the globe.	View Image
Shockwave	shw	Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedia's first and most successful multimedia player prior to the introduction of Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash). In an attempt to raise its brand profile all Macromedia players prepended Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s. Although this campaign was very successful and helped establish Shockwave Flash as a dominant multimedia plugin, Shockwave and Flash became more difficult to maintain as two separate products. In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins under the brand names Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Shockwave and Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash). Adobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedia's first and most successful multimedia player prior to the introduction of Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash). In an attempt to raise its brand profile all Macromedia players prepended Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s. Although this campaign was very successful and helped establish Shockwave Flash as a dominant multimedia plugin, Shockwave and Flash became more difficult to maintain as two separate products. In 2005, Macromedia marketed three distinct browser player plugins under the brand names Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Shockwave and Macromedia Flash (now Adobe Flash).	View Image
Social networking	soc	Social network analysis views social relationships in terms of nodes and ties. Nodes are the individual actors within the networks, and ties are the relationships between the actors. There can be many kinds of ties between the nodes. Research in a number of academic fields has shown that social networks operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations, and play a critical role in determining the way problems are solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals succeed in achieving their goals. In its simplest form, a social network is a map of all of the relevant ties between the nodes being studied. The network can also be used to determine the social capital of individual actors. These concepts are often displayed in a social network diagram, where nodes are the points and ties are the lines. The above example is from FACEBOOK.	View Image
Streaming Media	stm	Streaming media is multimedia that is continuously received by, and normally displayed to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the provider. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than to the medium itself. The distinction is usually applied to media that are distributed over telecommunications networks, as most other delivery systems are either inherently streaming (e.g. radio, television) or inherently non-streaming (e.g. books, video cassettes, audio CDs).
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)	url	In popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) — many popular and technical texts will use the term "URL" when referring to URI; Strictly, the idea of a uniform syntax for global identifiers of network-retrievable documents was the core idea of the World Wide Web. In the early times, these identifiers were variously called "document names", "Web addresses" and "Uniform Resource Locators". These names were misleading, however, because not all identifiers were locators, and even for those that were, this was not their defining characteristic. Nevertheless, by the time the RFC 1630 formally defined the term "URI" as a generic term best suited to the concept, the term "URL" had gained widespread popularity, which has continued to this day.
Vector Graphics	vgph	Vector graphics (also called geometric modeling or object-oriented graphics) is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons, which are all based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics. It is used by contrast to the term raster graphics, which is the representation of images as a collection of pixels (dots).	View Image
Video-on-demand	VOD	Video on demand (VOD) systems allow users to select and watch video content over a network as part of an interactive television system. VOD systems either "stream" content, allowing viewing in real time, or "download" it in which the program is brought in its entirety to a set-top box before viewing starts. The latter is more appropriately termed "store and forward". The majority of cable and telco based VOD systems use the streaming approach, whereby a user buys or selects a movie or television program and it begins to play on the television set almost instantaneously.
Viral advertising	viral	Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. [1] Viral promotions may take the form of funny video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, images, or even SMS text messages. Here is a viral ad from Loose Moose: Link
Vlogs	vlog	A video blog, sometimes shortened to vlog,[1][2][3] is a blog that comprises video.[4] Regular entries are typically presented in reverse chronological order and often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Vlogs also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Though many vlogs are collaborative efforts, the majority of vlogs and vlog entries are authored by individuals. Here's an example of a VLOG.	View Image
Wallpaper	wp	Mobile wallpaper, like a mobile game, is a piece of content that is installed on mobile phones. A wallpaper is simply a graphic that is formatted to fit the screen of hand held devices, mainly cell phones. Here's an example from MY MUSICMONSTER	View Image
WAP-Wireless app. Protocol	WAP	WAP is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication. Its principal application is to enable access to the Internet from a mobile phone or PDA. A WAP browser is to provide all of the basic services of a computer based web browser but simplified to operate within the restrictions of a mobile phone. WAP is now the protocol used for the majority of the world's mobile internet sites, known as WAP sites. The Japanese i-mode system is currently the only other major competing wireless data protocol. Mobile internet sites, or WAP sites, are websites written in, or dynamically converted to, WML (Wireless Markup Language) and accessed via the WAP browser.	View Image
Web 2.0	w-2	Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004,[1] refers to a perceived second-generation of Web based communities and hosted services � such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies � that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O'Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted. Though the term suggests a new version of the Web, it does not refer to an update to World Wide Web technical specifications, but to changes in the ways systems developers have used the web platform. According to Tim O'Reilly, "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform." [2] Here's a link to the guy who coined the phrase, Tim O'Reilly	View Image
Web Browser	brsr	A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. Text and images on a web page can contain hyperlinks to other web pages at the same or different website. Web browsers allow a user to quickly and easily access information provided on many web pages at many websites by traversing these links. Web browsers format HTML information for display, so the appearance of a web page may differ between browsers.
Widgets	Wgts	The web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. They are derived from the idea of reusable code that has existed for years. Other terms used to describe web widgets including: gadget, badge, module, capsule, snippet, mini and flake. Web widgets often but not always use DHTML, JavaScript, or Adobe Flash.
Wiki Hosting	wiki	EditMe is a wiki hosting service that empowers non-technical users to quickly and easily build and host irresistibly editable web sites. Unlike normal web sites, EditMe includes powerful features to enable multiple contributors to collaborate on the site's content, and unmatched access controls to protect sensitive information. EditMe is great for use as a wiki, personal web site, company intranet, collaboration site, or blog.