Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. The word was first coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article. Examples: innocentive – wikipedia [...]

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Social Network

by leelefever A social network service uses software to build online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most services are primarily web-based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, [...]

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Why Firefox is better?

Mozilla Firefox is a web browser faster, more secure, and fully customizable. Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and an integrated search system that uses the user’s desired search engine. Functions can be added through around 2,000 add-ons created by third party developers. Firefox runs on various [...]

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Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became [...]

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Open Source

Open source is a set of principles and practices on how to write software, the most important of which is that the source code is openly available. Open source (termine inglese che significa sorgente aperto) indica un software rilasciato con un tipo di licenza per la quale il codice sorgente è lasciato alla disponibilità di [...]

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