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- noun Internet Any small piece of
content removed from its originalcontext , such as a summarysnippet in a page ofsearch results.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Browsers respond to this boom in microcontent with bookmarklets in toolbars, letting users fling something from one page into a Web service that yields up another page.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 for teaching and learning 2006
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QTSaver extracts multiple large chunks of microcontent from a single source from popular search engine sites.
Yahoo's 3 Steps to "Content" Success Ben Barren 2005
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The poster would drop his "microcontent" into a sea, and the reader would pick up a stream of memes through mechanisms peculiar to his own selection methodology.
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I had just learned the first rule of text usability on the web: That you have to be very careful writing titles, headlines, descriptions, and other so-called "microcontent," because information on the Internet is often displayed out of context, and is frequently cut off to just the first three or four words coming over an RSS feed.
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These small handheld technologies further underscore the importance of portable identity, microcontent, decentralization, and (near) real-time delivery.
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Rather than following the notion of the Web as book, they are predicated on microcontent.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Web 2.0 for teaching and learning 2006
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I took their work one step further, uploaded the script to my server (to prevent malicious activity only) and made it possible for you to run the script on any page of my site, just by clicking the microcontent link in the footer.
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Arnaud Leene, how does Twitter do on your microcontent rating?
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Four ways of looking at Twitter 2007
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Mashable, yes, and some little bits of microcontent.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: video and narrative 2007
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Why this matters: it's a classic web 2.0 story, with microcontent connecting people along lines of shared interest, based on what Ton Zylstra calls "social objects."
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Web 2.0 network ecology stories 2007
hugovk commented on the word microcontent
microcontent, n.
Nielsen Norman Group, 29 January 2017:
January 5, 2018