12 Words You Can Never Say in the Office

by Carolyn Duffy Marsan Tuesday, Au ust 2!, 2""# $rovided by

More fro+ 'usinessWee(.co)* > MyS$ace'i?i,e@ (ood for So+eone > 3o* a Tiny Startu$ Ased T*itter to /ind A$$ Store Success > M9it Mi0es Mobile Net*or,s *ith Social Conscience %f you&re old enou h to understand the reference in this headline '' (eor e Carlin, anyone) '' then you&re old enou h to need a refresher course *hen it co+es to tal,in about technolo yWe&ve $ut to ether a list of outdated tech ter+s, $hrases that you shouldn&t be usin at *or, any+ore because they *ill +a,e you see+ old- This is es$ecially true if you&re loo,in for a ne* .ob- /or e0a+$le, on an intervie*, you should be tal,in about 1cloud co+$utin ,1 not 1AS2s1 even thou h they are basically the sa+e thin This list is useful for 2"'so+ethin s, too- No* *hen the senior $erson in the office uses one of these ter+s, you&ll ,no* *hat he&s tal,in about1. Intranet 2o$ular in the +id'#"s, the ter+ 1intranet1 referred to a $rivate net*or, runnin the %nternet 2rotocol and other %nternet standards such as the 3y$erte0t Transfer 2rotocol 43TT25- %t *as also used to describe an internal Web site that *as hosted behind a fire*all and *as accessible only to e+$loyees- Today, every $rivate net*or, runs %2- So you can .ust use the ter+ virtual $rivate net*or, or 62N to describe a $rivate %2'based net*or,2. Extranet An 1e0tranet1 referred to $rivate net*or, connections based on %nternet standards such as %2 and 3TT2 that e0tended outside an or ani7ation, such as bet*een business $artners- 80tranets often re$laced $oint'to'$oint electronic data interchan e 48D%5 connections that used standards such as 912- Today, co+$anies $rovide su$$liers, resellers and other +e+bers of their su$$ly chain *ith access to their 62Ns3. Web Surfing When is the last ti+e you heard so+eone tal, about surfin the Web) You ,no* the ter+ is out of date *hen your ,ids don&t ,no* *hat it +eans- To teens and t*eens, the %nternet and the World Wide Web are one and the sa+e thin - So it&s better to use the ter+ 1bro*sin 1 the Web if you *ant to be understood4. Push Technology The debate over the +erits of 1$ush1 versus 1$ull1 technolo y ca+e to a head in 1##: *ith the release of the 2ointCast Net*or,, a Web service that sent a steady strea+ of ne*s to subscribers- 3o*ever, 2ointCast and other $ush technolo y services re;uired too +uch net*or, band*idth- 8ventually, $ush technolo y evolved into <SS feeds, *hich re+ain the $referred +ethod for $ublishin infor+ation to subscribers of the %nternet- <SS stands for <eally Si+$le Syndication5. A lication Ser!ice Pro!i"er #ASP$

Durin this decade, the ter+ 1A$$lication Service 2rovider1 evolved into 1Soft*are'as'a'Service-1 =oth ter+s refer to a vendor hostin a soft*are a$$lication and $rovidin access to it over the Web- Custo+ers buy the soft*are on a subscri$tion basis, rather than havin to o*n and o$erate it the+selves- AS2 *as a hot ter+ $rior to the dot'co+ bust- Then it *as re$laced by 1SaaS-1 No* it&s cool to tal, about 1cloud co+$utin -1 %. Personal &igital Assistant #P&A$

Coined by for+er A$$le C8O Bohn Sculley bac, in 1##2 *hen he unveiled the A$$le Ne*ton, the ter+ 1$ersonal di ital assistant1 referred to a handheld co+$uter- 2DA *as still in use in 1##:, *hen the 2al+ 2ilot *as the hottest handheld in cor$orate A+erica- Today, the $referred eneric ter+ for a handheld li,e a =lac,berry or an i2hone is a 1s+art$hone1+. Internet Tele hony You need to $ur e the ter+ 1%nternet tele$hony1 fro+ your vocabulary and s*itch to 6o%2, for 6oice over %2- 8ven the ter+ 6o%2 is ettin old'fashioned because $retty soon all tele$hone calls *ill be routed over the %nternet rather than the 2ublic S*itched Tele$hone Net*or,%t&s $robably ti+e to sto$ referrin to the 2STN, too, because it is headed for the history boo,s as all voice, data and video traffic is carried on the %nternet,. Weblog A blo is a shortened version of 1Weblo ,1 a ter+ that e+er ed in the late 1##"s to describe co++entary that an individual $ublishes online- %t s$a*ned +any *ords still in use such as 1blo er1 and 1blo os$here-1 No*adays, fe* $eo$le have ti+e to blo so they are 1+icroblo in ,1 *hich is another *ord that&s headin out the door as $eo$le turn T*itter into a eneric ter+ for blastin out 1C"'character observations or o$inions-. Thin .lient You have to ive ?arry 8llison credit for seein +any of the fla*s in the clientDserver co+$utin architecture and for $o$ulari7in the ter+ 1thin client1 to refer to Oracle&s alternative ter+inal'li,e a$$roach- %n 1##E, 8llison *as toutin thin clients as a *ay for lar e or ani7ations to i+$rove net*or, security and +ana eability- Althou h thin clients never re$laced 2Cs, the conce$t is si+ilar to 1virtual des,to$s1 that are ainin $o$ularity today as a *ay of su$$ortin +obile *or,ers1/. 0boc %n 1#FC, the A-S- overn+ent forced ATGT to s$lit u$ into seven <e ional =ell O$eratin Co+$anies H<=OCsI also ,no*n as =aby =ellsCusto+ers bou ht local service fro+ <=OCs and lon 'distance service fro+ carriers such as ATGT- Teleco+ industry +er ers over the last 1! years have for+ed inte rated local' and lon 'distance carriers such as ATGT, 6eri7on and J*est- This +a,es not only the ter+ <=OC obsolete, but also the ter+s %?8C for %ncu+bent ?ocal 80chan e Carrier Hi-e-, (T8I and C?8C for Co+$etitive ?ocal 80chan e Carrier Hi-e-, M/SI11. 1ong2&istance .all Than,s to flat'rate callin $lans available fro+ carriers for at least five years, nobody needs to distin uish bet*een local and lon 'distance calls any+ore- Si+ilarly, you don&t need to distin uish bet*een terrestrial and *ireless calls because so +any $eo$le use only *ireless services- ?i,e $ay $hones, lon 'distance calls '' and their $re+iu+ $rices '' are relics of a $ast *ithout national and unli+ited callin $lans12. Worl" Wi"e Web Nobody tal,s about the 1World Wide Web1 any+ore, or the 1%nfor+ation Su$erhi h*ay,1 for that +atter- %t&s .ust the %nternet- %t&s a distinction that Steve C7aban, the $o$ular /o0 S$orts <adio tal, sho* host, li,es to +oc, *hen he refers to the 1World*ide %nter*eb-1 Nothin dates you +ore than $ullin out one of those old'fashioned *ays of referrin to the %nternet such as 1infobahn1 or 1electronic hi h*ay-1