Chapter 7: New Media Landscape

2. A system for computer users to exchange messages through a network. (It beats snail mail.)
4. Internet news site that began in 2005 as a foil to the politically right wing Drudge Report.
5. Creator of Second Life.
9. Using personal information and patterns in activities to match advertisements with potential customers.
13. Game designer known mostly for SimCity and its spin-offs.
14. One of the creators of Google.
15. A platform for 140 or fewer character communications among computer and mobile phone users. (Little Blue Bird.)
18. Economic collapse of most investments in internet commerce in 2000.
19. An identification label for a website, each with a suffix like ".com, .org, .net".
21. Creator of the Ebay auction site.
23. Software used to navigate the Internet.
25. An online encyclopedia open to users to edit as they feel the need to.
26. Creator of Amazon online site.

1. The use of a mobile phone keypad to create and send messages to a recipient with a similar device.
3. The project to put all books in human history online- is a huge project proposed by Google.
6. Tool used to identify and rank web sites by key terms.
7. Software wunderkind who designed the first widely used browser.
8. Early Business model for online portals with access limited mostly to proprietary content.
10. Online digital media for consumer downloads, originally for music, took e-commerce in a new direction. (Apple)
11. Matching advertisers with potential customers with relative precision.
12. First internet browser.
16. Video games sponsored by an advertiser to promote sales.
17. The largest social networking site.
20. A computer that collects human intelligence to assess and disseminate.
22. Largest video sharing site on the web, 100 million videos are viewed each day.
24. Journal-like website with continuing narrative, generally personal in nature with a narrow subject.