What is Internet?

 
Everyone speaks and hears about the Internet, is new, modern and looks set to change our way of
life. But if you ask people what the Internet is many do not know what to say. We will try to illustrate
with a few simple ideas. Everyone knows that a clear picture is worth a hundred ideas confusing.

We could say that the Internet is composed of a large number of computers that can exchange
information between them. It is a worldwide computer network.

Computers can communicate because they are united through and through connections that use a
common language or protocol, TCP / IP.

According to the plan we can see in the image, a user connects to the network (via a modem or
router, either via telephone line, cable, satellite, etc ...). From this point the TCP / IP comes into
play, thanks to him you can contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP) making him aware of your
physical address.

Using TCP / IP, the ISP assigns IP addresses to your PC and at that moment gives you access to
the network.

When we access a page we provide a domain that is translated into the DNS Servers and localized.
When we know what Web Server is the page you want to visit it proceeds to download and display
in the browser's PC.

Internet has boomed since approximately 1994, but existed long before computers connected
together so what happened then? Several things happen: the emergence of the Web, telephone
modems, free software for web servers and personal computers increased.

 
Most importantly, it appeared the WWW (WorldWideWeb), who managed to make it easier and
attractive to use the network to all users by adding interactivity. Basically through the introduction of
hypertext, graphics and forms. Sometimes the word is used as a synonym for the Internet Web.

Hypertext is what makes that clicking on a word or figure move from the page where we are at a
different page. This new page can be on another computer at the other end of the world, this is what
created the concept of surfing the Internet, we can visit within minutes, almost without realizing it,
information that resides on computers located in different countries. Actually when we seek
information that interests us is to find, not knowing where you are physically.

The site also has improved the aspect of information through graphics and text formatting, this is
possible thanks to the creation of the language in which web pages are written, HTML (HyperText
Markup Language). Also appeared for free Web browsers: programs to transform the HTML in Web
pages.

Now the user feel heard by the computer, as can very easily get your opinions, questions,
complaints, etc.. through forms.

Other aspects that helped the growth of the Internet were the occurrence of low-cost modems
installed on a personal computer allowed it connects to the telephone network through which the
data arrives from the other computers connected to the Internet.

There was also an increasing number of personal computers with which most people could access
the Internet.

Nor should we forget that with the advent of free programs for creating web servers, including
Apache, thousands of small organizations and student groups could become reporting issuers.
Which made dramatically increase the number and diversity of information available on the Internet
totally free.

Unit 2. Internet access

 

In this unit we will try to explain the basics of the Internet connection as we can not explain all
practical cases, it depends on the configuration and there are hundreds of cases.

You may also want to know the different possibilities of connection to the Internet, basic telephone
line, ADSL, ISDN, cable, phone, etc..

What is needed to connect to Internet?

To connect to the Internet will need several items. There are some elements that vary with the type
of connection you choose and others are common. Let's see generically different elements and
when we discuss each type of connection will see them in detail.

In general, we need a terminal, a connection, a modem, a provider of Internet access and a

browser.

Terminal The terminal is the element that serves the user to receive and send information. In the
most common case the terminal is a personal computer or laptop, but can also be a TV with a
keyboard or a mobile phone, see below.

A low cost current computer is sufficient to connect to the Internet as the main factor influencing the
quality of Internet access is the connection speed, and this depends on the type of connection you
use, not personal computer. If you're using the personal computer to work with other programs that
require few resources, such as graphic design programs that require more memory and a fast
processor is recommended to buy a midrange PC or high but if you're using Internet access and a
word processor is enough low-end computers.

It is better to spend the money on a good monitor rather than a very powerful processor.

What needs to be clear is that for Internet go faster what is important is to have a fast connection, a
fast computer is not much by itself.

For desktop monitor 19 "will allow us to work with a higher resolution (1280x1024), thus more
clearly see the images and we will have more room on the screen to have several windows open at
once. A 17" monitor has a field of view smaller, but sufficient for most users. With a 15 "monitor
recommended resolution is 800x600 with which some web pages will not be completely on the
screen and have to use the scroll bars. The number of colors depends on those who can handle the
graphics card, but enough with all current card.

Lately they are having some success for small notebooks or netbook because they are a good
option for those who use the computer mainly to connect to the Internet and require a lightweight
laptop. These netbook screens are 9 "or 10" and weighs less than a kgr.

 Login

Communication between your computer and Internet needs transported through some physical
medium. The most basic way is through the telephone line, the most used in Spain is ADSL and
cable, but as discussed below can also be through wireless means.

 Modem

The modem is the element that allows the connection between your PC and phone line or
transmission line. The computer works with digital information (zeros and ones) while normally
working telephone lines in analog form (different wave amplitudes and frequencies). The modem
enables a shift from analog to digital and vice versa, hence its name, MOdulator DEModulator.

Depending on the type of Internet connection you choose will have to use a different type of
modem, a modem for basic telephone line is good for an ADSL line.

For dial-up connections can use an external telephone modem 56 Kbps Although in this case the
modem can be internal if it is installed inside the computer, which is the most common option. Such
connections are the slower, and there is no longer used.

The most common is to have a cable modem or DSL. In addition, may also be a router, which
allows us to share the connection with multiple computers. Forming a local network with Internet
access.

It is also common to have a wireless access point (Wi-Fi). With our equipment we can connect it
wirelessly, to access the network. Just keep in mind that unless we set users and passwords to our
wireless network, any computer in the radio range of the signal can connect to internet using our
connection.

Unit 3. Browsers (I)

Introduction.
  
The most used Internet service is the Web, followed closely by email. When we log onto the Internet
or surf the internet really we are referring to the Web. To access the Web you need a program
called a browser.
The Web information is available via web pages, these pages are written in HTML internally, to
transform this language in Web pages visible need a program, these programs are called browsers
or browsers (in English). These are complex programs that perform many functions, but from the
outset have been free and can be downloaded from the web. The most used browser is Internet
Explorer (IE).

A browser used to access the Internet, but you can use IE without an Internet connection to view
web pages you have recorded on the hard disk, a CD, DVD or other device.

The browsers are incorporating new technologies that are generated around the Internet, every so
often new versions appear, it should have updated your browser.

When a new version, the browser will automatically install the updates. You can also visit the web
browser and download the latest version. If you have an older version you might when you visit
certain sites can not see properly. For example, some animations may not function properly, or a
menu can not open.

Whether you want to update your version if you want to settle as a navigator here's the details:

 Internet Explorer.
 And Mozilla Firefox.

The first browser that was released by the network was the Mosaic, in 1993. Later became
Netscape, which dominated the market until the arrival of Microsoft with its Internet Explorer (IE) in
1996.

He started the "browser wars" in which lawsuits were filed against Microsoft for trying to abuse its
dominant position in the market for operating systems with Windows, to make your IE.

This war in the courts was long disputed. But the trade war was clearly won by Microsoft, which in
2005 had more than 90% of the browser market. The main advantage of Microsoft was to have your
browser pre-installed in Windows. What made that most users will simply not bother to download
and install another.

In recent years, Internet Explorer has been losing market share. Even if we add users to IE 6, IE 7
and IE 8, it remains first.

In 2005 came to force a new competitor to IE, Firefox was the browser of the Mozilla organization
and continuation of the left (then) Netscape. This organization belongs to the world of open source
and not the business world as Microsoft.

 Firefox is a modern browser that innovated with some very interesting features. For example,
Firefox has a blocking pop up windows (pop-ups), also has the possibility of opening new websites
in the same window using different flaps. In Firefox is built on the upper right, several of the most
popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc..
The main advantage of Firefox is to use the supplements, and the large number of them are
available, what features the browser adapts to user needs.

Although seeing as anger, these innovative features have been incorporated into other browsers
slowly.

 In September 2008 came the other hand browser from Google, the Chrome. Given the strength of
Google in the network is likely to achieve a significant market share.

 Also available for Windows users to Apple's Safari browser.

 Another noteworthy browser and Opera users is enough. Very lightweight and has a philosophy of
total configuration by the user program and compliance to the letter of the standards published by
the W3C.

These five are unquestionably the dominant browsers, and although there are other, their diffusion
is minimal.

There are sites that specialize in measuring the quality of the browser. For example the Acid3 test
checks how the browser respects the standards, giving a score between 0 and 100. Another test
SunSpider is responsible for measuring the speed with which the browser executes the JavaScript,
increasingly used in so-called Web applications

Unit 4. Search Engines (I)

 

At one time, at the beginning of the Internet in the '90s, when searching for something through the
network of networks was exhausting work and boring, now things have changed. Usually one is
surprised at how easy and fast it is seeking information.

Sometimes it's very rewarding to find something that did not even know existed and exceeds our
expectations. One of the reasons why the Internet engages people. It's like being in front of a giant
dump on the first kick and find a diamond.

Of course you should know before searching the Internet, is what we tried to explain in this unit.
 In this videotutorial can see the concepts we discuss in this issue.
Let's start with Google search
  
Let's go see the features and management of search engines as an example. I hope it clearer.

Start with the most used search engine, Google.

To start click here or type http://www.google.com in the address bar of your browser. Or just type
"google" in the address bar, the browser will start your browser and probably will appear in their
web address Google in the first position.

Once you open the page, this is the initial screen of Google. Most options do not appear until you
move the mouse cursor.

The first detail to note is that Google detects the language of your operating system and the screen
presents you in that language. In our case in Spanish. Also detects our country, and shows the
appropriate browser version (pictured, Spain).

You can also go directly to Google Spain: www.google.es, Google Mexico: www.google.com.mx,
Argentina: www.google.com.ar, and many other countries where Google has its own page for that
country.

At the bottom right, you can see a link to Google.com if you insist on going to www.google.com

Even you can manually choose the interface language and language Google search by clicking on
the Search Settings link located in the upper right corner. If you want to see more detail visit the
basic page.

The display of Google is very simple. It has a central text box where you type in what we seek, the
button to start search Search with Google and some other things with pretty descriptive names, and
now we will not see. Then we will explain in detail the results screen.

This clear and simple style was not fashionable until Google came before, search engines have a
very dense screens, with many options, advertising, etc..

Let's make our first search. Suppose we want to buy a book through the Internet.

Type libraries in the search box and click the Google Search button

Unit 5. The E (I)

Introduction
  

Some people think the Internet is not too useful, but when they said they can communicate with
anyone anywhere in the world within minutes, they can even send pictures, sounds and files with
large amount of data, so this quick and easy, can begin to change their minds about the usefulness
of the Internet. For some e-mail or email is the most used Internet service along with the Web.

There are several types of accounts, POP3, IMAP and SMTP, POP3 here talk of being the most
used.

The Internet mail, like regular mail should be private, that all programs to read mail password
protection feature. Although this does not ensure that someone can intercept the mail while
traveling through the network.

To avoid this, you can use encryption systems such as PGP, to encrypt the message before
sending it over the network and decrypted upon arrival.

 Operation of the mail.

The e-mail or e-mail is a way to send messages between computers over the Internet.

Like most Internet services, mail is based on client / server architecture. Let me explain, in
simplified terms, what this architecture. Clients are the computers of users who use the mail and the
server is the computer that handles mail, the server belongs to the entity providing the mail.

When someone sends an email, first come to your mail server that sends it to the recipient's server,
where the message is stored in the recipient's mailbox. When the recipient connects to the server, it
will send all pending messages. Therefore do not care if the customer is connected or not the
Internet at the time a message is sent.

We can configure our mail so that each time you boot or read the messages waiting to read them
when I click the Receive button.

The mailbox can be fixed size, so if they accumulate many messages on the server and the client
does not read your mail may be blocked. Even before the server usually sends a warning message
for emptied the mailbox. When we say an e-mail account, for example, refer to 20 Mb available
space on the mailbox server. This was more common several years ago. But now, major email
services offer sizes reaching several GB, which makes filling is not our mail.

The process client / server is more complicated than described here, since messages are sent
downstream from check to ensure that at each step the data is received well.

Customers must have a program-mail client, eg Outlook or Firebird. The server is a computer
program that has a mail server that can handle thousands of email accounts. Normally the mail
server resides on a machine other than the web server, for this may at some point the web server is
not working but the mail server, or vice versa.

An email has several components, the mailing address of the destination, the message text and
maybe some more things as attachments, etc..

An email has a fixed structure:

nombre_cuenta @ server_name

eg andres.lopez @ hotmail.com

Each email address is unique for everyone, can not be two identical email addresses.
When we connect to the Internet through a provider we normally assign one or more email
accounts. We can also create us accounts on websites that offer free like Hotmail, Gmail, yahoo,
etc..

There are three basic ways to use the mail through a mail program, using webmail and using instant
messaging programs ..

Mail program. For example, Microsoft Outlook, the Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora, etc.. These are
specific programs for working with mail and we have to install on your PC. The first time you have to
configure them using the account data and mail server. Therefore it is only practical use in the
home PC and work.

They can handle multiple accounts at once no matter who you provide the account. They have
many more options than webmail. In the picture on the next page you can see the overall look of
Outlook 2007.

Webmail. As its name suggests, is to use the Web Mail. One advantage of webmail is that from any
computer with Internet access can read and send our mail without having to configure anything. We
will explain some things more than Webmail.

Instant messaging has nothing to do directly with the email, but has the characteristic that when an
email arrives warns us at the same moment, also informs us when connecting a member of a list of
users that we we created previously. At that point we decide to write an email or set up a
conversation in a chat.

Unit 6. Communicate on-line (I)

 

The Chat
  

Chat or talk on the Internet allows instant written between two or more people over the Internet.

If you have never participated in a chat you can imagine it as a room where people gather to
discuss a subject without any moderation or strict rules. What happens is that instead of using the
voice to communicate using the keyboard and computer screen, although participants may be
thousands of km. away from each other the conversation is real time.

Before entering the chat you will have to choose a nickname or pseudonym ( "nick"), which is the
name that others will see in the chat. We should not give your real name.

Will also choose one from among the chat rooms available, each on a different subject. For
example, friends, trivia, youth, business, sports, love, etc.. Once inside the chat you will see a
screen similar to this next image shows the Terra chat.

Chats can be found in almost all portals, for example, ChatMania, Wanadoo, Ya.com, etc..
In the middle are the messages that participants sent in front of each message is the name of the
sender. Just below is a blank line where you type your message, to send you need to press the
Submit button that is on the right.

In the right column is a list of the pseudonyms of the participants. When someone enters or leaves
the chat line appears that reports them.

If there are few participants in the chat you can read messages from all others and establish a
conversation between everyone, but if there are many entries is a little difficult.

The solution is to switch to private chat between two. How do depends on each chat, usually just
double-click the right name and open a window in which only two people involved.

Unit 7. Forums and Discussion Groups (I)

Forums
  
A Forum on the Internet is a place where people share their views, experiences and questions on
any topic in a hierarchy.

That is, a forum allows you to start a topic to which others can respond and express their opinions
or respond to a topic that has raised another person. These topics are organized into groups called
Forums.

So the final structure of a forum is usually this:

This method is very useful because you can be a problem and return within a few days (or hours,
depending on the frequency at which the forum is visited) to find the answer put forward by anyone
who has provided to help you.

In this way we are able to send messages into space, and if they are interesting, may even cause a
massive response .. answers to these are called Hilo.

A forum thread is not just a question raised has been very successful and therefore it is followed by
many people. Some threads may have dozens of answers, where many times to get to understand
the latest messages conclusion must read the entire thread.

This tool is, therefore, very handy when raising doubts about something. You can get to a forum
and ask how old do you wean a puppy, it is likely that someone will answer a few days it is
recommended at 4 to 6 weeks.

Obviously you will find forums about anything, so it will be possible to initiate or participate in any
thread that comes to mind.
As you can see we have 2 active forums at the moment, the technical questions about the courses
and information technology, and a second named Secretariat. Administration where you can leave
your doubts about our courses administrative, purchasing, shipping, etc ...

If you click on either of these two forums will see the topics that is composed, for example, the
Technical Questions forum is:

As you see in the picture, the forum is composed of many issues in chronological order, column
topics can view a description of the item. Looking Answers column has generated few answers we
will see each of the topics.

On a forum also find who started the topic and who left the last message.

Unit 9. Learning on the Internet (I)

Introduction
  

Internet education is experiencing a boom, every day there are more websites that offer online
courses and there are more students who take these courses and most are satisfied with the
teaching received.

This is because the Internet is an excellent vehicle for human communication and education is
essentially a process of communication between teacher and student.

Several years ago appeared to distance education, used the mail and self-learning books. Later,
when personal computers began to become popular emerged computer-assisted instruction (CAI)
that was sitting at the computer and follow the instructions that this was giving, these courses are
more interactive courses by mail but had the disadvantage of the lack of help.

When the student had a problem was discouraged because it was difficult to find someone to help
him and was in a situation that made it difficult to continue with the course.

This problem has a solution on the Internet easier because it is very easy to get help from the
teacher through email, chat, IP telephony or videoconferencing.

Today it is possible to establish a true virtual classroom if you have enough bandwidth.

In a real classroom, students see and hear the professor's explanation made on the board, to their
peers in a virtual classroom, students also see and hear the teacher, instead of the board support
the explanation is the screen computer, the student can directly ask the teacher, the teacher can
see the display of the student and realize what he is doing wrong to correct him. It is also possible
to let the students see all the questions from their peers and talk to them.

In this scenario the educational process can be carried out perfectly. In some cases, even with
some advantages over classroom teaching. Of course, there are some drawbacks.

Advantages of online education

 

The student does not have to travel to the school. For people with mobility problems or live in
remote sites is a great advantage. Not having to travel significant savings in time and money.

 No timetable

It is easier to adjust schedules to conduct the study. Activities that do not need the teacher can be
made at any time.

 Barata

An Internet course is cheaper than one face, as it can reach many people and a teacher can serve
more students in a class attendance.

 Customizable

Online education is more customizable. Each student can study at their own pace and level, in a
live class students who are not in the middle of the class are harmed, the more advanced they get
bored listening to stuff they already know and the most backward are lost and can not follow
rhythm.

 Participatory

For students who are shy or with communication problems is easier to communicate with the
teacher and their peers through email and chat wondered out loud to the teacher. This problem is
more common than thought, many times students do not ask questions because they are
embarrassed to speak publicly or because they think the teacher and their peers will think he is
doing a stupid question. When asked by mail other students do not see the question.

 Multimedia

It have more multimedia and interactive elements in teaching integrated more completely than in
conventional teaching. Through photos, videos and sound can be created very attractive courses
for students who will motivate and make learning more effective. In many cases the classes will be
limited to hearing about the teacher and read a book.

 Monitoring

You can do detailed monitoring of the performance of each student from the different data that can
be obtained as the connection time, the areas studied, the questions asked, results of assessments
and self assessments, etc..

 Updated

Contents updated. It's much easier to update a course on the Internet, for example, a book.

Disadvantages of Internet education

 

 Equipment

The student must have the necessary equipment, computer and Internet connection.

 Intimidation

Having to use the computer can intimidate or discourage some students who think that using a
computer is somewhat complicated. In fact, students should have only minimal knowledge of
computers so that anyone can take a course online.

 Schedules

Freedom of time may also be a drawback as it makes it easier than laziness imposed. With no
obligation to attend classes at a particular time may not consider the time required.

 Cold

Internet communication can be cooler than direct communication between people that occurs in a
course outside the Internet

Unit 10. Internet Security (I)

  Viruses
  
Computer viruses are programs that inadvertently installed on the computers, carry on their
destructive role and can spread to other computers.

Pathways are diverse and have evolved over time. A few years ago when there was no Internet,
preferably propagated through diskettes. Then they started to use as a means of expanding the
programs that were downloaded over the Internet.

The most used means of spread are the e-mail (Internet mail) and Web pages. Using e as
dispersion medium has several advantages from the standpoint of the virus. It is a very fast and
used by many people, a virus can be replicated millions of times in a few days in the following way.

The virus arrives by mail to a computer and sends itself to all email addresses listed in Address
Book. When you reach another computer re-sends itself to all addresses listed in it, and so on.

Viruses that use Web pages and Internet are also able to reproduce very quickly since a page can
be accessed by thousands of people daily.

The life cycle of a virus could be this, go into your computer, that is, infects us, and cause runs
normally damage, then tries to copy itself to other computers, ie spread. When it is detected by
some antivirus program or user is removed and die. Let's see this in more detail.

Infection
 

For our computer is infected with a virus or spread, the virus code has to be recorded on our
computer, the easiest way to do this for a virus is when copying files, and you only need to hide
inside the file you're copying .

If we can not only read information infect, for example, if we read the contents of a CD or visit a web
page there is no danger of infection. This is the norm, but there are exceptions, as we shall see, as
sometimes happens that we are recording things in our computer without realizing it.

Once the file is virus on your computer has to run to carry out its functions. Having a recorded file
on your hard disk does not mean that this virus has done everything that has to do, it may not yet
executed. But more often is that you just entered into the computer the file is run.

There are several ways to run, for example, we can implement ourselves without realizing it when
you open a mail attachment. Another form of self-launch is to alter the configuration of the computer
to run whenever you start the computer.

So every time you copy something in our computer can also be copying a virus.

The most common routes of infection are:

1 - e-mail.

2 - Get off the Internet for download files.

3 - Get off the Internet via ftp files.

4 - Copy USB flash drives, CD, etc..

5 - Visiting web sites.

6 - Use of focus groups.

7 - Use of networks.

8 - Use of P2P networks.

 

1 - e-mail

It is the most important method of infection today. Allows virus spread at great speed as they send
millions of emails every day. Some viruses are only activated if you open attachments that
accompany the message.

Other viruses are activated simply by opening the mail and read the message. If we turned the
preview in our mail program means that all messages are read to show the subject and sender, but
we do not open this message, the mail program itself opens and we can therefore infected. Later in
the precautions section you can see how to turn off the preview.

Read the post, in many cases is an action that causes information to be recorded on our computer.
Because the messages are downloaded from the mail server and saved on a hard drive.

2 - Get off Internet download file

There are many websites that give the possibility to download files by clicking a link, it opens a
dialog to ask what our hard disk folder we want to make the file and start the download. If the file
you downloaded is infected can infect your computer. The virus can usually review these files
before opening them.

3 - Get off the Internet via ftp files

This is another way to download files over the network. For this we use ftp programs like Cute-FTP
or FileZilla, these programs allow you to connect to a server and copy files from the server to your
computer and if we are allowed from your computer to the server.

4 - Copy USB flash drives, CD, etc..

Increasingly fewer files are exchanged through this system, since it is more convenient to send
them online. But there are many viruses that create a boot file on the USB infected. By putting it in
another computer, the system executes the boot file, executing the virus.

5 - Visiting web sites.

Normally web pages contain text, graphics, sound, animation and video. The browser will only read
these elements are displayed on the screen, so web pages can not be infected because they do not
usually contain programs that run on your computer.
However, some websites can record information on our computer via ActiveX controls and Java
applets without us being aware of it. This is an extremely dangerous infection that is increasingly
being used more, especially to spread spyware.

Normally for a web page can infect their visitors must be the rightful owner or webmaster of that
page to install the viruses with the intent to propagate, so you can surf the pages all serious on the
network. Almost 100% of the servers have antivirus that prevent the possibility of sending viruses
through their websites.

Faulty construction of browsers are also involved in this. Many times when scheduling the operation
of browsers are left with gaps or holes that malicious individuals use weaknesses against us. In
fact, in September 2006 found a bug in Internet Explorer that could install anything on a browser
simply by visiting a website.

In the latter case, user interaction in the infection is almost zero, usually (and in other cases) we get
infected by downloading a file, run a program or clicking on certain link. By capturing this kind of
failure the result can be chaotic for nothing more Visit our team would be at the mercy of anyone.

Anyway, as said before, this is only isolated incidents that are resolved by patching (fixing) the
browser program. And yet, the servers and trusted websites tend not to have these types of
problems.

The only solution is to use caution and to visit only sites that we feel safe. And do not click any link
does not install everything that we offer.

6 - Use of discussion groups, chat rooms, IRC.

In the discussion groups messages are exchanged and sometimes attachments, similar to mail.
Although the focus groups used a transmission system other than mail, it is possible that if we open
one of these attachments can infect us.

Potentially any means of transferring files is likely to be used to deliver a virus.

7 - Use of networks.

We can infect using global networks (Internet) or local networks.

So far the clearest case of infection through the Internet has been the Sasser virus that infects
computers by simply connecting to the Internet without the user visits a particular Web page or
download a file.

When we use a local network are sharing resources with other computers on the network, if any of
the computers on the network is allowed to write on a hard drive could transfer a virus.
 

8 - Use of P2P networks.

P2P networks (eMule, Ares, kazza, BitTorrent, ...) are designed for sharing files and are used by
millions of people around the world, so are the ideal place to put files with the mixed virus sound
files. It must be said that these networks take steps to avoid the presence of detectable virus and as
it removes any or warn users.

And we repeat: potentially any means of transmitting files is likely to be used to deliver a virus.

Just by participating in a chat or discursión group, sending and receiving messages does not mean
you have to infect you.

Unit 11. Blogs (I)

 

Introduction
  

A Blog or weblog is a website that contains a series of text entries or items that are updated
periodically. Thus, most current text foregrounds to be the first thing visitors see upon entering the
page.

Usually blogs (short for Weblogs) are used as personal journals, where its creators find a way to
convey their ideas to the world.

Due to the revolutionary capabilities of reach of the Internet, weblogs have become an avenue of
expression worldwide. Creating one is easy and keep it only entails a minimum commitment from
time to time, also anyone from anywhere in the world can read and comment on it.

In fact, what most of these sites have in common is the feedback. Each entry that is produced,
jointly issued a link that leads to the comments section of that entry, so anyone can leave your
opinion or comment on the website.

 
Getting a blog is easy, virtually all major portals and Internet sites offer you the opportunity to host
your weblog free of cost.

Blogger is one of the top leading companies in this sector. Long Acquired by Google, is dedicated to
providing space and free tools for anyone to create an account and start writing a blog with a few
clicks.
MSN (Microsoft's web portal) has recently developed a new feature for its users, MSN Spaces. Just
as Blogger, MSN offers a space with only a hotmail account you can write a blog, store photo
albums or create custom lists of interests.

The use of images on blogs has become quite popular, even making other types of spaces called
Fotologs (mixture of Photography and Blog). His greatest example is the company that is dedicated
fotolog.com, like its predecessors, to provide free space for users who want to create this type of
Weblogs.

The fotologs are fundamentally different in that the main part of the periodic input is an image,
which may be accompanied or not (depends on the taste of the author) by a small piece of text.

It is a fact that this form of communication works and does reach the public all information. That's
why many companies already collect this method and creating new sections have assimilated
periodic publication in blog format. You can see some examples in newsrooms from Google, Adobe
or Samsung.

Even some have seen a reef behind this approach and has created blogs with entries on specific
topics worthy of journals. One of its main representatives in Spanish is WeblogsSL, a company
dedicated to creating themed blogs blogs where we can find a wide variety of interests, from the
world of the baby until the passion for motor, through different blogs on science, technology ,
economics, fashion, food, etc ...

Many newspapers online edition are adding blogs as part of their contents in an opinion column
more. Visit the pages of newspapers 20Minutos or World where you will find a good example of this
use of weblogs

Unit 12. Web 2.0 (I)

Introduction
  
In the beginning, the Internet was a fairly static. All your pages are created in a fixed and rarely
updated, so its content was quite predictable and offered very little interaction with the user. This
was the Web 1.0.

Gradually, the dot-com began to use new technologies and adapted their pages more dynamic
content that achieved greater wealth of content through their ability to communicate with databases.
Managers emerged contents and forms were becoming a real site. The improved user interaction.

We were watching the Web 1.0 was closer to offering services that display content, gradually the
situation improved and companies like Google, Amazon and Yahoo (among others) began to
become well-known Internet giants. Many people called this stage of Web 1.5.
Little by little, and the result of several conferences (see Web 2.0 Conference), several large
companies and experts decided that to get most out of the network of networks had to change their
point of view: Web 2.0 was born.

As Ross Mayfield (SocialText steering) then coined: Web 1.0 era for commerce, Web 2.0 is for
people.

Following these meetings emerged new concepts and trends that would soon be reflected online.

Web 2.0 is emerging as an attitude and not a new technology. A new way in which the user is in
control of information. According to this new philosophy, to the employer a website is no longer
theirs to become ours. Represents the evolution from traditional applications to the user-oriented
web applications. Some applications that generate and are generated by the collaboration,
providing real services to replace (long term) desktop applications (Office, Photoshop,
Dreamweaver, etc ...).

Another way to look is the one found in Microsiervos.

Web 2.0 is not a remake but a new way of doing things.

Principles of Web 2.0

In these conferences are distilled a few key concepts on how to create the Internet:

 Evolution to the Web software. Internet is now the platform.

 Repeat to the standards set by the W3C. The more standardized information easier to find the will
to share.

 Use formatting styles (such as in newspapers) to separate the information.

 Content syndication. It should not be necessary for users to visit us to see our new products, we
are offering them.

 Using interactive technologies: AJAX, Flash, Flex, Lazlo.

 The user must control information. Social networking and communities.

Following these principles will emerge new companies emerge and they begin to work differently.
They offer services to users, ceasing to be a mere element showing pages and pages of static
information with which it was impossible to interact.

As you can see from now on, many have adopted these new guidelines, and if everything continues
as it is now very likely that this trend comes to settle down. Yet we must remember that not all
companies will be born which will remain. It is not the first time I attended a tech bubble and we
know that many of them fall by the wayside