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Learn the lingo (with buzzwordbingo)! Here are some of our favorite words from the Web.

**Augmented reality** - Live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery.  []

**Badge** - Device or accoutrement which is presented or displayed to indicate some feat of service

**Clicktivism** - Virtual 'activism' using clicks to fave, digg, like and follow  [] Activism after Clicktivism: How to restore our revolutionary potential – Micah White []

**Digital echo chamber** - Going online to hear others repeating your thoughts (related: ego surfing)  []  []  []

**Digital native** - a person who grows up using digital media and communications systems, and thus has complete familiarity with them.

**Gameification** - The idea of turning an otherwise mundane process into a game, to give people more of an incentive to do it Source: [|And now, the weather... from 1914]

h/t = Hat Tip **Hyperlocal** - **Long Tail** -

**Mashup** - App or website that combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services.  []  [|http://mashable.com]

**Password fatigue** - a level of frustration reached by having too many different passwords to remember, resulting in an inability to remember even those most commonly used.


 * tl;dr** = Too Long Didn't Read

**Unfriend** - To remove someone as a `friend’ from a social networking site such as Facebook.  [|New Oxford American Dictionary 2009 Word of the Year]


 * WIIFM** - W hat's in it for me? (WIIFM)

**Wikification** - The process of opening online content to allow for collaboration from users; to turn an online site into a wiki.  []  []

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