{"id":986,"date":"2006-10-05T09:58:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T13:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/geekspeak-still-baffles-web-users\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:50","slug":"geekspeak-still-baffles-web-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/10\/05\/geekspeak-still-baffles-web-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Geekspeak still baffles web users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?867\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to research from Nielsen\/NetRatings, people are buying cutting-edge technology but often don&#8217;t understand the terms that describe what their device actually does.<\/p>\n<p>So while 40% of online Britons receive news feeds, 67% did not know that the official term for this service was Really Simple Syndication.<\/p>\n<p>Terms such as podcasting and wikis are still meaningless to many.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the relentless quest for the next big thing when it comes to new forms of digital consumption, there is a significant tendency for the industry to over-estimate consumer&#8217;s knowledge and understanding of the seemingly limitless new terms and products out there,&#8221; said Alex Burmaster, internet analyst with Nielsen\/NetRatings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: According to research from Nielsen\/NetRatings, people are buying cutting-edge technology but often don&#8217;t understand the terms that describe what their device actually does. So while 40% of online Britons receive news feeds, 67% did not know that the official term for this service was Really Simple Syndication. Terms such as podcasting and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-computer-news","anons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}