TIA Chapter 3
Remains the most widely used form of communication on the Internet. Fast and convenient. It is asynchronous so users do not need to be on the computer at the same time
Tagging (Social Bookmarking)
Saves your favorite website to a social bookmarking site so that you can share it with others
Metasearch Engines
Search other search engines rather than individual websites
Guidelines to make online shopping safer:
1) Look for "https://" 2) Shop at well-known, reputable sites 3) Pay with credit card 4) Check the return policy, save a copy of the order and confirmation number 5) Avoid online transactions when using public computers
Several parts of an URL
1) Protocol-set of rules- used to retrieve document 2) Domain name 3) Path or subdirectory
Live bookmark
A feature in Firefox that adds the technology of RSS feeds to bookmarking
Internet
A network of networks connecting billions of computers globally
A Wiki
A web application that allows users to add, remove, or edit its content
Bookmarks
Allows you to return to a specific webpage without having to remember that address
Links
Are the links available and appropriate?
Client
Asks for data
Before using an Internet source, consider:
Authority, Bias, Relevance, Audience, Links
Video Log
Blog that uses video as the primary content
E-commerce
Electronic Commerce; the process of conducting business online
Audience
For what audience is the site intended?
Podcast
Form of digital media composed of a series of audio or video files that are distributed over the internet
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
How podcasts deliver their content. A format that send the latest content of the podcast series automatically to an aggregator
Domain name
Identifies the site's host, the location that maintains the computers that store the website files. The suffix after the dot is called the top-level domain
Multimedia
Involved one or more forms of media in addition to text: Graphics, Audio, Video
Relevance
Is the information in the site current?
Bias
Is the site biased?
Instant Messaging
Let people communicate in real time over the internet. (AIM, Google Chat)
Aggregator
Locates all the RSS series to which you have subscribed and automatically downloads the new content
Streaming Media
Multimedia that is continuously fed to your browser so you avoid having to wait for the entire file to download completely before listening or watching it
Blog
Personal log posted on the Web. Public and have searchable and organized content
Server
Receives requests and returns data to clients
Search Engine
Set of programs that searches for keywords and returns a list of the sites on which those keywords are found
History List
Shows all the websites and pages you've visited over a certain period of time
Browser
Software that lets you locate, view, and navigate the web
Subject Directory
Structured outline of websites organized by topics and subtopics
Graphical browsers display:
Text, pictures, sound, video
Webcast
The broadcast of audio or video over the interet
Web 2.0
The new collaborative, user-created web content. An example is Wikipedia
Internet Backbones
Transmission lines with the fastest speeds
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
Social Networking
Using the web to communicate and share information
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
What the modern internet evolved from. It was US government-funded project
Internet Protocol (IP) Address
What your computer is assigned when it connects to the internet. It is a set of 4 numbers separated by periods, referred to as a doted quad or dotted decimal
Authority
Who is the author of the article or the sponsor of the site?
