More Sites, terms, and Texts

From today's class:


New Text:

Krug, S. (2005). Don't make me think: a common sense approach to web usability. 2nd edition. New Riders Press.

isbn: 0321344758


New Tech Sites:

camptasia: screen recording software.

google docs: online document sharing.

microsoft surface: the desk computer with touch screen usability.

gliffy: a free diagramming (wire framming) online tool.

zoho: free online web applications (i.e. word processor, presentation tools, document management, etc.)

duvaga: media management system.


New terms:

mashup: the combination of new technologies into new services.

web service: info that's created elsewhere and brought into a web application (like a site that displays local weather via a widget they don't manage in house).

waterfall (project management): the "one step to the next" approach; leaves the majority of testing until the end.

agile (project management): the "all at once" approach; testing and communication are contsant and back and forth

cowboy (project management): the "my way, or the highway" approach; one person dominates, thinks they know everything, and demands things happen their way

streaming (video & audio): streaming media is being constantly received by the user, as opposed to a download that must be completely downloaded to the user before viewing.

metadata: quite literally data about data. For example, consider a collection of books as data; the metadata would be the things in the catalog (like titles, authors, isbns, number of words, etc.). For a group of people, metadata could be names, ages, heights, etc. For a collection of online sites, metadata could be number of visits per day, number of links, average frequency of update, etc.

It occurs to me that these lists of texts, sites, and terms should probably be compiled into single pages; I'm going to try to establish some static pages to display this information. (Or, if you happen to be currently enrolled in my class, find the online glossary of terms on Blackboard.)