Appendix B: Glossary - OCLC

1 Appendix B: Glossary2xMoinsCher A French e-commerce company that provides a wide variety of consumer goods andservices. These include computer hardware and software, DVDs, CDs, video games, telephone and entertainment equipment, books and sporting goods. The site also offers clothes, shoes andaccessories. 2xMoinsCher was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Paris, France. It operatesas a subsidiary of Trokers SA. A Japanese e-commerce Web site owned by 7-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd., Japan s largestconvenience store. The site launched in mid-2000 and enables its shoppers to browse throughmore than 100,000 items including music, flowers and photo supplies place orders online andpay for the items when picked up at local 7-Eleven stores.

2 An online outlet for Aeon Group (a developer ofshopping malls), Aeonshop is a Japanese e-commerce site that offers an extensive variety of consumer goods. An organization, individual or application thatgathers content from multiple sources forpresentation elsewhere. Syndication occurs when Web content is gathered and A French e-commerce enterprise and subsidiary of France Telecom. Alapage offers a widevariety of goods and services, including computer hardware and software, video and soundequipment, books, music, videos, hobby and crafting supplies, and travel services. Alapage reportsa million visitors to its site each day. A subsidiary company of Based in California, Alexa Internet, Inc. is bestknown for operating a Web site that gives usersinformation on Web traffic to other Web sites.

3 Alexacollects information from people who have installed an Alexa Toolbar, allowing Alexa to providestatistics on Web site traffic, as well as lists of related links. and An American e-commerce company based in Seattle, Washington, , it wasone of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet. Founded in 1994 and launched in1995, began as an online bookstore, though it soon diversified its product lines,adding VHS, DVDs, music CDs, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture,food, toys and more. Amazon has established separate Web sites in Canada, the United Kingdom,Germany, Austria, France, China and Japan and ships globally on selected and sharing A feature of many videoconferencing applications that enables the conferenceparticipants to simultaneously run the same application.

4 The application itself resides on only oneof the machines connected to the of Participation Tim O Reilly, founder of O Reilly Media, uses this term to describe systemsthat are designed for user contribution. O Reilly first used this term during a presentation at theWarburg Pincus Annual Technology Conference, May video A Japanese video-sharing site operated by Co., Ltd. of the transcosmos group andfounded in 2000. The process of confirming that the user accessing a site is authentic and a registereduser. Also, in computer security, the process of verifying the digital identity of the , Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World China s leading search engine. Baidu searches audio files, images and Web sites. Itfeatures an interface that is similar to Google sand has discussion forums that are searchable bykeyword, and an online Wikipedia-like encyclopedia (Baidu Baike).

5 It was ranked eighth in Alexa sInternet rankings, as of September 7, 2007. Baidu indexes more than 740 million Web pages, 80million images and 10 million multimedia files. A measure of capacity in a channel for electronic communication. Bandwidth is oftenexpressed by users as a measurement of speed. The higher the bandwidth, the less time it takesto transmit Barnes & is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc., thatbegan operation in 1997. It offers online customers books, music, DVD, video games, and relatedproducts and services. Barnes & Noble originated in 1873 when Charles M. Barnes opened a book-printing business in Wheaton, Illinois, Newsline The BBC s regional television newsservice for Northern Ireland.

6 On the air in its currentformat since 1996, BBC Newsline broadcasts brieffive-to-ten-minute bulletins seven days a weekand a 30-minute news program on Monday through Friday A social networking Web site founded in 2005. Bebo allows friends to communicate by postingpictures, writing blogs and sending messages to one another. Bebo s format is similar to Xanga,MySpace, and Yahoo! 360. , Tim Inventor of the World Wide Web in 1989. Director of the World Wide Web Consortium,Senior Researcher at Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology s Computer Science and ArtificialIntelligence Laboratory, and Professor ofComputer Science atSouthampton Electronics andComputer Blockbuster began in Dallas, Texas, in 1985 as a movie rental operation and in2004 introduced an online DVD rental service in the Its online operation includes 36warehouses and 1,400+ stores.

7 At the end ofthe third quarter of 2006, it had millionsubscribers. (or Web log) A Web-based journal of short, dated entries in reverse chronological order. Mostblogs focus on one subject area and are updated daily. Entries typically consist of links to externalWeb pages with summaries of or commentary on the content. See also Corporate blogging. Blogosphere A term used to describe the total number of A list of links to other blogs found on a An online group of around 40,000 members that specializes in book exchange. A userregisters a book list online and may request books. Points are awarded for each book listed andexchanged, and the points are used to obtain the books. BookMooch was started by John High-speed Internet access.

8 In the United States, Internet access over 200 kbit/s isclassified as A German-based Internet trade enterprise offering books, e-books, video, software and floralproducts. Nearly 80% of s 2006 sales were for its book products. Most of its 80 employeesare based at the M nster headquarters. A German-based Internet trade enterprise offering books, music, videos, software andvideo games. board A bulletin board functions very much like a newsgroup with the users of the boardposting messages; these messages are then displayed to all those who access the bulletin board. It is a low-tech solution for providing a forum for users whose numbers are too small or whose focusof interest is too specialized to be supported by a B: GlossaryB-2 Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked WorldCafesta A Japanese communication portal site begun in 2002 that offers e-mail service, online gamingand real estate information.

9 Cafesta has a membership of over million. Free and open toanyone, membership ranges from elementary and junior high school students to parents and otheradults. Screen recorder and editing software offered by TechSmith A leading French e-commerce site that offers 15 online stores. Items and services availablefor purchase include CDs, DVDs, books, videos and video games, household electronics,photography services, mobile phones, music, home d cor and travel. Founded in 1998 andheadquartered in Bordeaux, France, Cdiscount has a staff of 650. WOW! An online retailer of music CDs, DVDs and video games. Launched in 2000, CD WOW! isbased in Hong Kong and maintains Web sites in a number of primarily European countries. It isknown for its discounted prices, and has been legally challenged by the British PhonographicIndustry for its business practices.

10 A leading Canadian online bookseller for books, games, DVDs, toys and music was formed in 2001 from the merger ofIndigo Books and Music and Chapters, Inc.,then the largest book retailer in Canada. Its online shopping service, , operatesone of the leading Internet affiliate programs for Web site owners. The process of communicating with other Internet users in real The first social networking Web site, created in 1995. The site is owned by ClassmatesOnline, Inc., a subsidiary of United Online. Classmates Online, Inc. also owns ClassmatesInternational, which operates similar sites in Germany and Sweden. is used bymembers in the and Canada to find and connect with friends from school, work and themilitary. Over 40 million users are registered on the site and the site is ranked by as the938th most used Web site globally.