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Often in online conversations you come across acronyms which you are unaware of. It happened so that in one such conversation I came across the acronym F/B and was stumped for a while.
So I turned to Google for an explanation and had to choose from a list of them, based on the context of our [...]

Ultimate(previously called Ultimate Frisbee) is a limited or non-contact team sport, played with a Frisbee(someday we’ll tell you what a Frisbee is, in case you don’t know it).
It is a mix of basketball, soccer, American football and netball and is played with a 175 mm flying disc. The objective of the game is to score [...]

A Cheat Sheet or a Crib Sheet is a short, concise set of notes for quick reference. It is called a Cheat Sheet because they are used to cheat in examinations. A Cheat Sheet is illegal in most education systems but some don’t mind them as they represent some useful educational exercise.
At higher levels of [...]

Some time ago we told you something about Microblogging and Twitter. Well, here we are with an awesome video explaining What is Twitter in plain english.
Enjoy! (Even if you know what Twitter is, do watch the video. It will help if you want to explain Twitter to someone who hasn’t heard about it.)
Twitter in Plain [...]

CPM stands for Cost per mille, where mille is latin for thousand. Thus it is also known as CPT or Cost per thousand. It is a commonly used term in all advertising channels like Radio, TV, print, online and so on.
It is the cost incurred in showing the advertisement to a thousand people. It is [...]

CTR stands for Click Through Rate, and is the number of clicks an online ad receives divided by the number of times the ad, ad unit, or page is viewed. The click-through-rate is measured in how many clicks have been generated as a percentage of how many times the advertisement has been displayed.
It is a [...]

Often used in Virus search results, a False Positive, also known as a false detection, occurs when an antivirus program detects a known virus string in an uninfected file.
In general a False Positive is a Type I error – the error of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is actually true. Plainly speaking, it occurs [...]

Ever wondered what the ‘Wiki’ in Wikipedia stands for? Don’t fret – We’ll tell you!
Wiki is a Hawaiian term for ‘Quick’ or ‘Fast’. A Wiki is a page or a collection of pages which allows anyone, who accesses it, to contribute or modify it easily. It thus provides users with quick support to create and [...]

In our series of posts on Internet and Messaging lingo, here is another term – IMHO. During the initial days of my internet foray I used to think that IMHO refers to International Medical Health Organization. However it didn’t make any sense in the conversations. Until one day one of my friends revealed the true [...]