50 Digital ideas you really need to know

Presents an introduction to the internet and the World Wide Web, including such topics as blogging, streaming media, hacking, e-commerce, cloud computing, and avatars. Full description

Main Author:	Chatfield, Tom.
Published:	London : Quercus Publishing, 2011
Subjects:	WORLD WIDE WEB - TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES. INTERNET - SOCIAL ASPECTS. ELECTRONIC COMMERCE.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction. FUNDAMENTALS: The internet; The world wide web; Internet service provision; Email; Personal computing; Servers; Browsers; Markup languages; Search. TOWARDS THE DIGITAL PRESENT: Web 2.0; Netiquette; Blogging; Aggregation; Chatting; File sharing; Streaming media; Rich internet applications; Wireless; Smartphones. THE DARK SIDE: Malware; Spam; Privacy; The deep web; Hacking; Cyberwar. PLEASURE AND LEISURE: Social networking; Games consoles; Mashups; Culture jamming. BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT: E-commerce; Online advertising; Analytics; Optical character recognition; Machine translation; Location-based services; Virtual goods; eGovernment. TRANSFORMATIVE TRENDS: Crowdsourcing; Free software movement; Digital distribution; Cloud computing; Going viral. SHAPING A DIGITAL FUTURE: Virtual worlds; Avatars; Net neutrality; Semantic web; Augmented reality; Convergence; The internet of things; Distraction. Glossary. Index.

50 Digital ideas you really need to know

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