Monday, June 3, 2002		Bits & Bytes

Typosquatting: Purchasing a domain name that is a variation on a popular domain name with the expectation that the site will get traffic off of the original sight because of a user's misspelling of the name. For example, registering the domain names webapedia.com or yahooo.com in the hopes that someone making a typo will get to that site unexpectedly.

Syndication: The sharing of content among different Web sites. The term is normally associated with licensed content such as television programs and newspaper columns.

Fork: To split source code into different development directions. Forking leads to the development of different versions of a program. Forking often occurs when the development of a piece of open source code has reached an impasse. The project is forked so that the code can be developed independently in different ways with different results.