10 interesting things about the Internet

Written by: Jonathan Briggs

March 26, 2006 [2790 views]

This lecture has been written for students in the first year at Kingston University but I have put it here for convenience.

The session has been designed to look at different aspects of the Internet and hopefully to convince the group that it is even more important that it appears.

The talk will be illustrated with contemporary examples from the work of London web design and ecommerce company:the OTHER media and other companies.

Online Commerce – how successful is it?

1. New markets
2. Better customer service
3. Better information
4. Cheaper transactions
5. Better intelligence
6. Better returns

Servers and browsers – how do they really work?

1. Understand HTTP
2. Extending file serving to applications

Google and reputation – how important is it?

1. How does a search engine work?
2. How do results get ranked?
3. How does Google make money?

XML – what is it and why is it important?

1. Why is structured information better than unstructured text?
2. What applications (web services) could use XML?

Communities and social networks – the power of links?

1. MSN
2. Yahoo Groups
3. Linked-in
4. MySpace

Blogging – what is it and why should you be doing it?

1. Personal publishing
2. Blogger
3. Podcasting

Professional web design – why does it matter?

1. Brand values
2. Content management
3. Separating content and fucntionality
4. Customer service

Privacy – how safe and private is the Internet?

1. HTTP headers
2. GMail
3. Spam

Mobile – where are things heading?

1. Location based services
2. Always connected
3. Information and services now

Getting the best out of the web

1. Learn to search well
2. Blog
3. RSS
4. Build mental pictures of what is happening

 

  

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