Saturday, January 22, 2011

THE INTERNET, THE WEB & ELECTRIC COMMERCE


The Internet & The Web
- was Launched in 1969
            ~ National computer network
            ~ US funded project called ARPANET
- World Wide Web (WWW) was introduced in 1991 at CERN

The uses of the internet
- communicate effectively and efficiently
 Online shopping
social networking
blogging
web feeds
instant messaging
financial services

Browser
The first browser is a NETSCAPE. (Mother of Mozilla)


Three popular browsers is :
- Google Chrome
- Apple Safari
- Mozilla Firefork
- Microsoft Internet Explorer

URLs
Have two part :
- Protocol
- Top Level Domain


Emails
Spam
Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. There are two types of spam :

1) Cancellable Usenet spam - a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups.
2) Usenet spam - aimed at "lurkers", people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away

Instant Messaging
Mirc


GChat

~  File sharing and video conferencing ~

GTalk
~ Send file ~

( This both google best use in Malaysia because its capacity is not big )
skype
~ More for video conferencing and voice call ~

( Very famous in abroad because its capacity quite big )

AOL
~ America Online ~

( Biggest users in US )

Social Networking


~ Very popular now ~



 Blog, Microblogs and Wikis

- Personal websites - becomes very popular now


 - One of the microblog


~ People can post and share information with everybody ( But do not accept for official info ) ~


Search Engines
Something that you want to search and get what you need.

google


~ The most powerful search engine now ~
 ~ Yahoo & Microsoft Internet Explorer tried to buy google but google has grown by its own ~
~ Have GChat, GTalk, Maps and adroid also come from google ~
~ Include google application that stored all the web that we search before in log in which is inside that we have likes our own deskstop ~


MSN

Apple Safari
Mozilla Firefox
Metasearch Engine

Dogpile
~ Grab many informantion from any types of search engine ~
~ might be slower to get result ~
~ not accurate like search engines ~

Specialized Search Engine 
- Website on law
- Specific info or something

Electronic Commerce ( E-Commerce)
- Banking transactions
- Online shopping

Business to business (B2B)
- Higher manifacturer to retailer

Business to customer (B2C)
- Fastest growing type of e-commerce
- Three most widely used B2C applications:
       - Online banking
       - Financial trading
       - Online shopping



Customer to customer (C2C) -Web Auctions 
- EbaY ( quite big in oversea )
- Overstock
- Mudah (Malaysia)
- Lelong (Malaysia)


Security
 - Payment methods must be fast, reliable, and secure.
- But dont do any transactions in public wifi 

Plug-Ins ( Extension)
- PDF downloader
- Youtube downloader

Filters
eg : Net Nanny

File Transfer Prptocol (FTP)
- For downloading and uploading files only

Internet Security Suites
An antivirus
    - McAfee
    - Norton
    - Kaspersky

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