MarCom:Interactive

Internet Communication and Emerging Media

8101 E. Kaiser Blvd. Suite 150

Anaheim, CA 92808

Phone: (714) 283-6203 • Fax: (714) 283-6201

www.marcominteractive.com

Take Your Pulse

Admit it.  It is kind of fun to see how much of the “buzz” you recognize.  Especially if you are the only one who knows how well you score.

 

Take our quiz and test your “modern media” pulse.  You’ll get your score, but no one else will (we don’t track answers so we can’t tell you how you do against anyone else.  It’s for fun, people!).  We update it about once a month, so check back and you’ll always have new trivia to throw around at your next business lunch or social gathering. 

 

 

1) Which country sent more text messages in all of 2004:
a) The United States
b) The United Kingdom
c) South Korea
d) China
2) Yahoo recently did an "Internet Deprivation" study. The biggest hurdle in completing the study was:
a) Getting anyone to take them seriously
b) Finding families willing to give up the Internet
c) Getting participants to come back to the Internet
d) Tracking activities since participants were offline
3) Creative Commons is:
a) A social website for artists
b) The hottest shopping/entertainment concept
c) An intellectual property licensing system
d) The music download activist group
4) The total number Web logs on January 25, 2005 was:
a) 152,000
b) 2.6 million
c) 4.7 million
d) 8.1 million
5) RSS is:
a) The newest Internet Radio format
b) Microsoft's answer to the Apple IPod
c) A wireless device used for reading websites offline
d) A subscription service offered by websites for notification of new content
6) Motorola is creating a new line of Bluetooth enabled:
a) Clothing
b) Home appliances
c) Automobile accessories
d) Cameras
7) Pulse Publications are:
a) "As it's happening" reports from mobloggers (mobile bloggers)
b) Trend watching publications
c) Blogs about blogs
d) Citizen Journalist websites
8) Podcasting is:
a) Streaming video to a mobile phone
b) An MP3 file combined with RSS
c) Apple's new iTunes player
d) Apple's new iTunes player
9) A Wiki is a:
a) Social network
b) A group blog
c) A collaborative website
d) A popular teen Internet chat forum
10) Hypertagging is:
a) A link on a web site
b) A small chip embedded in an object that stores information
c) A code put into web pages that search engines read
c) An online game of hide and seek