Ivan Joshua S.

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Functions of Internet
1. Communications
In principle, internet users have high regard for the internet as a tool of
communication; 85% of both men and women say they consider the internet
to be a good way to interact or communicate with others in their everyday
lives.
Email has always been the most popular application on the internet.
Over 90% of internet users send and receive email. Since we began tracking,
email use in 2000, the number of men and women who do, email has been
about equal, with women sometimes taking a slight lead. Further, on an
average day, just about the same number of men and women will access
their email. As for volume on a typical day, men and women also say they
receive about the same number of emails in both their work and personal
accounts.
The World Wide Web, or the Internet, is a series of connected networks
that connect computers across the world together. This network allows
different kinds of communication methods. Voice over IP, or VoIP, refers to
programs like Skype that allow people to communicate using audio and
video over the Internet. Social media sites like Facebook are another
example of Internet communication. These sites allow people to post
messages and then respond to the messages over others in a long network
from one computer to another. Internet forums also facilitate communication
by letting someone create a thread, which others then respond to in a long
chain. Many websites such as blogs also allow people to post comments to
communicate that way. Chat rooms are among some of the oldest examples
of communication on the Internet along with forums. Even before graphic
user interfaces, such as AOL, it was possible to communicate over the
Internet in text form only when the Internet was mostly a collection of
connected college and government computers.
2. Transactions
In their day-to-day lives, 75% of internet users believe that the internet
offers them a good way to conduct their everyday business like banking or
buying tickets, although men, at 78%, say this in significantly higher
numbers than women, at 71%.
An internet transaction is the sale or purchase of goods or services,
whether between businesses, households, individuals, governments and
other public or private organizations, conducted over the internet. The goods
and services are ordered over the internet, but the payment and the ultimate
delivery of the good or service may be conducted on or off-line.
Transactional websites help to facilitate online management of
payments between consumers, companies and organizations. These types of
websites are normally a mixture of informational content and portals for
making online financial transactions. A bank website that offers customers
the ability to log into accounts and deposit, withdraw or transfer money is an
example of one type of transactional site.
Governments set up transactional websites to allow citizens to pay
taxes and fees conveniently online. In addition, government sites post tax,
business and other types of forms designed to report income and other
financial details.
Retailers and business service providers use transactional websites to sell
goods and services to consumers. Customers are directed to make purchases
via an online shopping cart or merchant payment processor.
Loan companies accept loan applications that require management of
private financial data. Consumers and businesses granted loans are given
access to a secure gateway to make monthly payments.
Transactional websites require adherence to strict security measures in order
to ensure the safety of private financial information.

3. Getting information
All internet users have a high regard for the internet as a source of
information, but men look for a broader range of information online than
women do.
Nearly all internet users, 91%, agree that the internet is a good source of
information for everyday interests like news, weather reports, and sports
scores.16 About 80% of both men and women also expect to find information
online about more specialized topics of government issues and health or
medical issues. The same number also say they expect to find information on
particular products they want to purchase, although this includes more men,
82%, than women, 77%. About a third of internet users say they expect to
find reliable information online about individuals.
Chrome is a Google product that has been slowly gaining ground on
Microsoft's Internet Explorer since 2008. Safari is Apple's web browser, which
has about 25 percent of the browser market. Mozilla makes Firefox, and
Opera Software owns Opera.
A web browser is a computer program that allows users to view information,
graphics, interactive pages and videos on the Internet. Various computer
programming languages, including HTML, create text and images on the
screen, which web browsers interpret to display information visually. Web
browsers also know how to communicate with web servers that host
websites and pages that are transmitted to computers.
Web browsers let users input a website's address, scroll through pages of
information, go backward, move forward and save favorite sites for future
use. Security settings on web browsers prevent malicious computer viruses
from downloading to a computer.
4. Entertainment
The internet is a great value for entertainment.Many activities are
being done by people over the internet. However entertainment from the
internet has captured the interest of almost everyone, regardless of age. In
the future,the internet is going to continue to provide more forms of
entertainment and open more opportunities to be amused.
Online social entertainment blends entertaining interactive
functionality and content including live video streaming, video chat
communications, multi-player gaming, music and videos streaming,
with social
networking
service such
as
social
graph
management, forums, reviews, ratings, and geo-location options. It is the
foundation for a more immersive, interactive, enriching and engaging
content
consumption
experience
through
social
channels. Social
entertainment is distinct from social networking websites in that the former
is based fundamentally on immersive engaging experiences with
functionality, content and people, while the latter is based primarily on
building and maintaining relationships with other users. Typically, social
entertainment is defined by the individual sites dedicated to a particular type
of entertainment experience incorporating basic social networking services.
Examples of this are YouTube, iTunes, app store,

Remote Access
The ability to log onto a network from a distant location. Generally, this
implies a computer, a modem, and some remote access software to connect
to the network. Whereas remote control refers to taking control of another
computer, remote access means that the remote computer actually becomes
a full-fledged host on the network. The remote access software dials in
directly to the network server. The only difference between a remote host
and workstations connected directly to the network is slower data transfer
speeds.
Collaboration enables individuals to work together to achieve a
defined and common business purpose. It exists in two forms:
Synchronous, where everyone interacts in real time, as in online
meetings, through instant messaging, or via Skype, and
Asynchronous, where the interaction can be time-shifted, as when uploading
documents or annotations to shared workspaces, or making contributions to
a wiki
Shared workspaces are among the most visible entries in the collaboration
space. Aimed at rolling document and application sharing up with chat and
perhaps versioning and other auditing capabilities, they may have more or
fewer features, and may be available either for license or on a syndicated
basis in the cloud, as they say. Google Docs is a notable example of the
latter, Microsoft SharePoint and EMC Documentum eRoom of the former.
Wikis are perhaps best thought of as online encyclopedias or how-to
manuals. They are applications that let users freely create, edit, and
reorganize content using a Web browser. Perhaps the most visible example
of this breed is Wikipedia, and variants exist throughout enterprises of all
kinds and sizes.
The plus and the minus of wikis are that more or less anyone can enter
anything into the resource so while theyre a great way to capture and
share what people know, they also must be vetted to ensure nothing
erroneous gets planted within (intentionally or otherwise). The good news is
that, over time, active wikis tend to be of fairly high quality due to the selfpolicing nature of an engaged user base.
Collaboration at the conceptual level, involves:
Awareness We become part of a working entity with a shared purpose
Motivation We drive to gain consensus in problem solving or development
Self-synchronization We decide as individuals when things need to happen
Participation We participate in collaboration and we expect others to
participate

Mediation We negotiate and we collaborate together and find a middle

point
Reciprocity We share and we expect sharing in return through reciprocity
Reflection We think and we consider alternatives
Engagement We proactively engage rather than wait and se
See
more
at:
http://www.aiim.org/What-isCollaboration#sthash.ZW7RiqYd.dpuf