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*Offers a variety of Internet services
*Examples of services:
*News
*Sports
*Search engine/directory
*Web publishing
*Reference tools
*Maps
*Shopping
*Examples of portals:
*AltaVista, AOL, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, Yahoo!
*Contains newsworthy material
*Contain stories and articles related to some of the following:
*Life, money, current events, weather
*Examples:
*WSB-tv
*NBC.com
*Contains factual information
*Government agencies provide this type of info:
*Census data, tax codes, congressional budget
*Others that provide this type are:
*MARTA
*Medicare
*Offers exciting, challenging avenues for formal and informal teaching and learning
*Online training for a new skill
*Online courses
*Online college classes
*Examples
*UGA
*Phoenix University
*Short for webblog
*Time-stamped articles or posts, in a diary type format
*Vblog – a blog that contains video
*Blogosphere – worldwide collection of blogs
*Vlogosphere – all vblogs worldwide
*Reflect interest, opinions and personalities of the author
*Allows user to create, add, modify, or delete web site content
*Collect recent edits on a web page so someone can review them for accuracy
*Anyone can modify a wiki
*Most popular - Wikipedia
*Encourages members in the group to share interest, ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos with other users
*Popular examples:
*MySpace (12 million visitors a day)
*Media Sharing Web site – different
*Allows members to share photos, music, and videos
*ShutterFly, Flickr – popular sites
*GoogleVideo and YouTube are example for video sharing sites
*Business that gathers and organizes web content and then distributes or feeds the content to subscribers for free or for a fee