Task 8

What's up guys!!

And as usual today I will post about Internet service and types of websites

Internet Service

1. World Wide Web
2. e-mail
3. Instant Messaging
4. Voice over Internet Protocol
5. Message board
6. File Transfer Protocol

World Wide Web (www)

•The World Wide Web (WWW), or Web, consists of a worldwide collection of electronic documents.

•Each electronic document on the Web is called a Web page which can contain text, graphics, animation, audio, and video.

•Web pages usually have built-in connections to other documents.

•A Web site is a collection of related Web pages and associated items, such as documents and pictures, stored on a Web server.

•Web server is a computer that delivers requested Web pages to your computer.

•Web 2.0 refer to Web sites that provide a means for users to share personal information, allow users to modify Web site content and have application software built into the site for visitors to use.

e-mail

•Short for electronic mail

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•The transmission of messages and files via a computer network

qConsist of simple text or can contain attachments, such as documents, graphics, or audio/video clips

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qSome Web sites — such as Google and Yahoo!—provide free e-mail services.

•One of the original services on the Internet

Instant Messaging

What is instant messaging (IM)?

A real-time Internet communications service that notifies you when one or more people are online and allows you to exchange messages or files or join a private chat room with them.

•Real time means that you and the people with whom you are conversing are online at the same time.

•Some IM services support voice and video conversations.

Voice over Internet Protocol

What is VoIP?

Voice over Internet Protocol, a technology for making telephone calls over the Internet in which speech sounds are converted into binary data.

•VoIP is an acronym for Voice Over Internet Protocol, or in more common terms phone service over the Internet.

•Also called Internet Telephony.

•To connect a calling party to one or more local or long distance called parties.

Message board

What is message boards?

•Type of discussion group.

•Many web sites use message boards because they are easier to use.

•Also known as discussion group, discussion forum and online forum.

•A general term for any online "bulletin board" where you can leave and expect to see responses to messages you have left.

•A popular Web-based type of discussion group that does not require a newsreader

File Transfer Protocol

 What is FTP?

•Is an Internet standard that permits file uploading and downloading with other computers on the Internet.

•A standard for the exchange of program and data files across a network.

•Uploading is the process of transferring documents, graphics and other objects from your computer to a server on the internet.

•Some examples of FTP programs are Smarter FTP, WS_FTP and Internet Explorer.

•Web developing programs like Dreamweaver can also be used to establish an FTP connection to a server.

And for the next chapter, I will talk about types of website

1. Portal
2. Business
3. Blog
4. Wiki
5. Online Social Network

Portal

A web site that offers variety of internet services from single, convenient location.

•Web system that provides the functions and features to authenticate and identify the users

Provide them with an easy, intuitive, personalized and user-customizable web-interface for facilitating access to information

•Have online communities.

vOnline community – a web site that joins a specific group of people with similar interests or relationships.

vExamples– KMPh portal e-learning, AltaVista, AOL, Excite, GO.com, iGoogle, Lycos, MSN and Yahoo!

Blog

An informal web site consisting of time-stamped articles, or posts in a diary or journal format, usually listed in reverse chronological order.

•Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs

•Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries.

Wiki

•A collaborative web site that allows users to create, add to, modify, or delete the web site content via their web browser.

•The difference between a wiki and blog is that users cannot modify original posts made by the blogger.

•Visitors can also create new content and change the organization of existing content.

• The simplest wiki programs allow editing of text and hyperlinks only.

•More advanced wikis make it possible to add or change images, tables, and certain interactive components such as games.

Online Social Network

    Encourages members in its online community to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music and videos with other registered users

•Examples: Facebook, MySpace

•A media sharing web site

va specific type of online social network that enables members to share media such as photos, music and videos.

Business

Contains content that promotes or sells products or services.

•Many of these enterprises also allow you to purchase their products or services online.

•Examples: Pearl Haya Gallery, Anakku brand, Walt Disney Company  and Kraft Brands .