Web Terms from Articles

IPO – (Initial Public Offering) When a company allows the public purchase and own shares of its company for the first time.

WebTop – A desktop embedded into a web browser. The desktops are similar to those of a Windows, Mac, UNIX or Linux desktop. It is a virtual desktop that accesses applications, data, files, settings etc. exists in a remote network.

API – Application Programming Interface is a set of routines, data, objects, protocols given by libraries or os that supports the building of applications

P2P – Peer 2 Peer is a network where you connect to other users using a certain bandwidth instead of connecting a sole server which most likely won’t be as varied. Commonly used for file sharing programs.

MYSQL – Is a program with a database management system with millions of users. Websites that have high traffic such as Facebook, Myspace and Youtube use MSQL for data storage.

PERL – It is a dynamic programming language, it has features of other programming languages such as C, shell scripting, it is also used for graphics, administration and networking.

PHP – Is a scripting language that in implemented into html for web development.

NNTP - is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting Usenet articles (aka netnews), as well as transferring news among news servers. Brian Kantor of the University of California, San Diego and Phil Lapsley of the University of California, Berkeley completed RFC 977, the specification for the Network News Transfer Protocol, in March 1986. Other contributors included Stan Barber from the Baylor College of Medicine and Erik Fair of Apple Computer.

Cloudmark – A company that produces programs that protect against spyware, viruses, spam and phishing.

ASIN – is a distinctive id number by Amazon.com and its partners for product identification within Amazon.com.