Video vote Camp by business English part dot com Today's episode is the second of a two part series on business vocabulary related to the Internet technologies known as Web 2.0 Web 2.0 gives computer users around the globe more opportunities to interact and collaborate.

While many functions seems simple on the surface, there is much going on behind the scenes.

Programmers use open architectures and a P i s to design and build open source software and Web based applications.

Content management systems make it easier to make universal changes.

Toe websites Browsing through a blogged, we might see widgets or plug ins used to offer us updated information.

We can post text to forums, read other posts and see them collected together as threads or conversations.

And we use avatars to give us a visual presence online.

Even though these images might not match our true appearance.

Open architecture er open architecture.

The term Open Architecture describes a system that allows third parties to develop products for it.

A PC is an example of an open architectures system.

You can add components from any manufacturer using a system with open architecture will give us more flexibility.

A P I application programming interface Open a P I s or application programming interfaces provide a way for different software or services to communicate with each other.

This allows information from one site to display information from another website without having the user click away.

You can use Google's A P I to integrate their services into your website or programs.

Open Source.

Open source.

Open source refers to software that is freely available to be used or modified as a person sees fit.

The software is still licensed and any changes air usually submitted to the originator In a collaborative spirit.

Liu wants to try modifying some open source software for this project.

Web based application, Web based application, A Web based application is one that uses the Internet for part or all of its functions.

Web based email, wikis and online auctions are all examples of Web based applications.

Do we need to install software to the hard drive, or is this a Web based application content management system?

CMS, a content management system, or CMS, is server based software that allows a user to manage the behind the scenes assets of a website, including the text, audio and video displayed on the site.

Using a CMS makes it easier for a website owner to add or modify content because changes can apply to all pages at once.

WordPress, Dumler and Drew pols are three popular CMS packages that are all open source widget widget in Web two point out terminology A widget is a specialized application embedded in a Web page.

The information It offers updates automatically so that the website owner does not have to make changes.

We'd like to add a visitor counter tow our website.

Is there a widget for that plug in?

Plug in?

Plug in is similar to a widget, but refers specifically to the mini application that is plugged in or added to the main software that runs the website.

We're using a plug in to aggregate recent comments from different blog's and display them in a widget.

On our side.

Post Post Post could be used as a verb or a noun.

If you post to a website, you add content.

The content, you added, is your post.

I posted a comment on John's Blawg in response to his post about company strategy, thread, thread a thread is a group of sequenced messages or posts related to one topic on a website.

Threads Air found on blog's in forums and in news groups, among other places.

Jenny wanted to learn more about smartphones, so she started a thread on the tech gadget for him.

She got some great recommendations.

Avatar Avatar.

People use avatars to visually represent themselves in online forums, chats, blog's and social networking sites.

Avatars can be drawings, cartoons, photographs, etcetera.

If you're representing our company online, we ask that you have a professional looking avatar.

Now it's your turn to practice some of the words we've studied in this episode you'll hear a Siris of sentences with the word replaced with a beep.

Repeat the whole sentence but say the missing word.

For example, if you here Jason uses a picture of his German shepherd for his, you can say Jason uses a picture of his German shepherd for his avatar.

Will play an example.

Answer after each question.

Ready?

Let's begin.

Do we need to install software to the hard drive?

Or is this a Web based answer?

Do we need to install software to the hard drive or is this a Web based application?

According to the latest on the company Blawg.

They're going to close the Detroit office next month.

Answer.

According to the latest post on the company Blawg, they're going to close the Detroit office next month.

We decided to use open software for this project.

Answer.

We decided to use open source software for this project.

We'd like to add a to our website that will show the local weather.

Answer.

We'd like to add a widget tow our website that will show the local weather that on our forum has over 100 posts so far.

Answer.

The thread on our forum has over 100 posts so far.

This concludes our two part series on Web 2.0 terms.

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