Approximeeting

 Arranging a rough time or place to meet, then sorting out details on the fly via mobile phone.

Source: 
Viewpoint: Why do tech neologisms make people angry?

The Cupertino Effect

What happens when a computer automatically "corrects" your spelling into something wrong or incomprehensible.

It's a sort of older cousin of the "Damn You, Autocorrect" error that infects even professionally edited text. 

Everybody experiences that stomach-dropping moment when you realise what you sent
wasn’t what you intended to send, and there are no takebacks. It was named by workers for the European Union who noticed that the word "cooperation" often showed up in finished documents as "Cupertino," the name of the California city in which Apple has its headquarters. 

Sources:

• Viewpoint: Why do tech neologisms make people angry?
• The Cupertino Effect: 11 Spell Check Errors that Made it to Press

Microsoft Language Portal

Microsoft Language Portal: a bi-lingual search portal for finding translations of key Microsoft terms and general IT terminology. It is aimed at international users and partners that need to know our terminology for globalization, localization, authoring and general discovery. 

It contains approx. 25,000 defined terms, including English definitions, translated in up to 100 languages as well as the software translations for products like Windows, Office, SQL Server and many more.

Stay ..simply!

Skeuomorphism

Skeuomorphism: derived from the Greek words "Skeuos", meaning vessel or tool, and "morph", meaning shape. A skeuomorph is, according to the Oxford Dictionary, a “derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original.” 

The term can apply to either a physical or digital creation. In other words, it means to replicate the form and material qualities of something that are no longer inherently necessary, all with the objective of making new designs “look comfortably old and familiar,” Nicholas Gessler writes in “Skeuomorphs and Cultural Algorithms.” When applied to UI, the logic here is that it will make the interface more intuitive and usable, as the user will understand how it functions based on their knowledge of the analog object it is replicating.

Source: Can We Please Move Past Apple’s Silly, Faux-Real UIs?

SoMoClo

The term illustrates the convergence of social media, mobile and cloud. 

What used to be three siloed technologies have now begun merging, thanks to an infrastructure that allows them to “collapse” into each other and form a new IT construct.

Source: SoMoClo ... huh?

Sneakernet

Sneakernet is a term used to describe the physical transfer of electronic information, especially computer files.

The name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to sneakers, as this way of moving information relies on a courier and removable media such as USB drive and compact discs.

Source: Osama bin Laden’s use of Technology, GeekwithLaptop

Social media glossary

What is a moblog? What is nptech? and what about splogs?

The social media landscape is fast changing and filled with strange terms to the uninitiated. Here’s a quick guide to some of the terms you may encounter!

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Language evolves: from "e-mail" to "email"

The AP Stylebook, the de facto style and usage guide for much of the news media, announced on Friday that the abbreviated term for “electronic mail” is losing a hyphen, and with it, a relic of a simpler time when Internet technology needed to be explained very carefully.

The move follows the AP Stylebook’s decision to change “Web site” to “website” last year, at which time we wrote, “[We] hold our collective breath for other possible updates, such as changing “e-mail” to “email.’”

Since then the recently much more progressive organization also published a set of 42guidelines and definitions for social media, though the future of “e-mail” remained very much in flux.

Today’s news, fittingly enough, was first announced on the AP Stylebook’s Twitter page, where they tweeted: “Language evolves. Today we change AP style from e-mail to email, no hyphen. Our editors will announce it at #ACES2011 today.” Look for the change to be in effect immediately in the online version of the stylebook and in the 2011 print version.

Source:
mashable.com

E-cquaintance

A person known to another through online communication only (as via email or Internet social networking)

Source: Merriam Webster

Virality

The popularity of something (such as a story or Web page) that is spread quickly and usually by direct recommendations rather than advertisements or news media.

Source: Merriam Webster

Skypeochondria, Fidgetal, Powerpointless

• Fidgetal - blend of finger and digital. Referred to the use of the fingers to provide input above a mobile device.

• MisApp - something going terribly wrong due to over reliance on latest Phone gizmo

• Wikisqueak - sound emitted by diplomat who realises she's sent confidential telegram without proper encryption

• Dreadsheet - spreadsheet containing very bad financial news

• Disgracebook - social networking site advertising user's embarrassing past

• Mobile drone - lover of interminable tedious and public phone conversations

• Sin card - alternative device to fit in mobile for immoral communication

• Powerpointless - universal feeling in room at end of hi-tech executive presentation of negligible value

• Skypeochondria - queasy feeling brought on by obsessive fear of being offline

• Scroogele - search engine for people trying to find cheapest online gifts

Source: BBC, "The future is fidgetal"

Social notworking

Surfing a social networking site instead of working.

Source: Word Spy

Buffering

Pausing for thought.

Source: BBC, "The future is fidgetal"

Nice to have intermet you

A friendly conversation by e-mail with a new acquaintance.

Source: BBC, "10 of your favourite anti-tech words"

Memail

E-mail I send to myself to remind me to do things.


Source: BBC, "10 of your favourite anti-tech words"

Spamnesia

Failing to reply to e-mails from friends, because your computer thinks they're spam.

Source: BBC, "10 of your favourite anti-tech words"

Hacktivist

A computer hacker who breaks into systems to further an activist agenda.

Example Citation:

"Members of the Hong Kong Blondes, a covert group, claim to have gotten into Chinese military computers and to have temporarily shut down a communications satellite last year in a 'hacktivist' protest. 'The ultimate aim is to use hacktivism to ameliorate human rights conditions,' says Oxblood Ruffin, a member of the Toronto-based Cult of the Dead Cow (www.cultdeadcow.com), one of the oldest hacker groups in North America, who serves as unofficial spokesman for the having-more-fun Blondes."

—Bay Fang, "Chinese 'hacktivists' spin a Web of trouble," U.S. News & World Report

Source: Word Spy

Infowar

Blend of "Information" and "Warfare"

Infowar is the use of information and information systems as weapons in a conflict in which the information and information systems themselves are the targets.

Infowar has been divided into three classes:

1. Individual Privacy

2. Industrial and Economic Espionage

3. Global information warfare, i.e. Nation State versus Nation State.

Most organizations will not need to be concerned over classes I and III, but clearly Class II is relevant to any organization wishing to protect its confidential information.

Also Cyberwar and Netwar.

Source: Seatlle.gov

iZombie

iPod zombies, a digital undead army lurching through the streets. We may call it the iPod zombie trance, but it's a device-agnostic state, since this living dead horde also consists of iPhone zombies, BlackBerry zombies, and the generic MP3 zombies and cellphone zombies.
The iPod zombie pedestrian isn't alone in needing earbuds and a tiny screen these days. Others in a state of iPod oblivion include iPod zombie joggers, iPod zombie dog walkers, iPod zombie cyclists, and iPod zombie rollerbladers.

iPod pedestrians (or, iPodes­trians) people regularly—you might even say compulsively—read and compose e-mail while walking down the street. But that's not all people do while power walking to their next appointments. They also text, read Facebook and Twitter status updates, scan RSS feeds, and more than anything else, they bliss out to their favorite tunes at unhealthily loud volume levels.

Similarly, in your local Starbucks, you've probably seen your share of laptop zombies who are oblivious to everyone and everything except the screen in front of them.
If walking while texting and other forms of pedestrian inattention were merely comical, no one would worry about them too much. But attention is a zero-sum game, so concentrating on your iPod results in a technological autism or unintentional blindness that can lead to near collisions with fellow pedestrians and actual collisions with street lamps. One study found digital music players to blame for up to 17 accidents every day in the UK.

The preferred term for this among cognitive scientists is inattentional blindness, which they define as "the failure to detect the appearance of an unexpected, task-irrelevant object in the visual field." So if you're zoned out listening to Arcade Fire at top volume (the task) and you fail to see an oncoming vehicle (the unexpected, task-irrelevant object), that's IB, and that's probably trouble, perhaps even death by iPod.

The risks increase if the driver of the car bearing down on you is preoccupied reading or sending text messages, a form of digital drunkenness known as being intexticated. An incredibly dangerous habit, intextication is also called DWT, or driving while texting. If the driver is preoccupied with a cellphone call instead, call it DWY, or driving while yakking—abbreviations that play on the legal term DWI, or driving while intoxicated.

Published on: spectrum.ieee.org

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