1. WAYS TO LEARN
IN THE WEB
NETWORK
NET COMMUNITY

2. SUMMARY
• Facebook
• Wikipedia
• Twitter
• Blogger
• Pb.works
• Wordpress
• Second life
• Picasa
• Youtube
• Google
• Google plus+

3. FACEBOOK
• Facebook is a social networking service.
• As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 800 million active users.
• Facebook was funded by Mark Zuckerberg.
• The Web site's membership was initially limited by the founders
to Hardvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in
the Boston area, the Ivy Leage, and Stanford University.

4. WIKIPEDIA
• Wikipedia is a web-based in a free enciclopedy.
• Its 19.8 million articles have been written collaboratively
by volunteers around the world.
• As of July 2011, there are editions of Wikipedia in 282 languages.
• Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free
online English-language.

5. TWITTER
• Twitter is an online social
networking and microblogging service that enables
its users to send and read text-based posts of up to
140 characters, informally known as "tweets".
• Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack
Dorsey and launched that July.

6. BLOGGER
• Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with
time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in
2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com.
Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via
FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with
domains other than blogspot.com allowed via Custom.In July of 2011 a news
outlet announced that Google intends to change the name of the service from
"Blogger" to "Google Blogs," as part of a larger plan to re-brand or retire all non-
Google brands in its portfolio of products and services.

7. PB. WORKS
• PBworks (formerly PBwiki) is a commercial real-time collaborative
editing (RTCE) system created by David Weekly, with Ramit Sethi
and Nathan Schmidt joining shortly thereafter as co-founders.
Based in San Mateo, California, the company's original name stems
from their belief that "making a wiki is as easy as making a peanut
butter sandwich". The company operates on a freemium basis, with
basic features being offered for free and more advanced features
for a fee.
• PBworks' investors include Mohr Davidow Ventures and the Seraph
Group, as well as angel investors Ron Conway and Chris Yeh.[
• In June 2008 the company hired Jim Groff, a former employee
of Oracle Corporation and Apple Inc., for its new CEO. David
Weekly, the former CEO, remains its Chief Product Officer and
Chairman.

8. WORDPRESS
• WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform
powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into
acontentmanagement system (CMS). It has many features including a
plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over
14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011
powers 22% of all new websites. WordPress is currently the most popular
CMS in use on the Internet.
• WordPress users may install and switch between themes. Themes allow
users to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website or
installation without altering the informational content. Themes may be
installed by using the Wordpress "Dashboard" administration tool, cPanel
or uploading theme folders via FTP. The PHP and HTML code in themes
can also be edited for more advanced customizations.

9. SECOND LIFE
• Second Life is an online virtual world developed by Linden Lab. It was
launched on June 23, 2003. A number of free client programs, or
Viewers, enable Second Life users, called Residents, to interact with each
other through avatars. Residents can explore the world (known as the
grid), meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group
activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one
another. Second Life is intended for people aged 16 and over, and as of 2011
has about one million active users.
• Built into the software is a three-dimensional modeling tool based around
simple geometric shapes that allows residents to build virtual objects. There is
also a procedural scripting language, Linden Scripting Language, which can be
used to add interactivity to objects.Sculpted prims (sculpties), mesh, textures
for clothing or other objects, and animations and gestures can be created
using external software and imported. The Second Life Terms of Service
provide that users retain copyright for any content they create, and the server
and client provide simple digital rights management functions.

10. PICASA
• Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus
an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned
by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the
phrase mi casa for "my house", and "pic" for pictures (personalized art). In July 2004, Google
acquired Picasa and began offering it as a free download.
• Native applications for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X (Intel only) are
available through Google Labs. For Linux, Google has bundled Wine with the Windows
version to create an installation package rather than write a native Linux version, but this
version is severely out of date (the latest Windows version, however, can be run
with Wine, see Linux section). There is also an iPhotoplugin or a standalone program for
uploading photos available for Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
• It was reported in July 2011 that Google would be rebranding Picasa as Google Photos

11. YOUTUBE
• YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three
former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can
upload, view and share videos.
• The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash
Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-
generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music
videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short
original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by
individuals, although media corporations
including CBS, BBC,VEVO, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their
material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
• Unregistered users may watch videos, and registered users may upload an
unlimited number of videos. Videos that are considered to contain
potentially offensive content are available only to registered users 18
years old and older. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought
by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of
Google.

12. Google
• Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud
computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based
services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through
itsAdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the
"Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates.
• It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial publ
offering followed on August 19, 2004. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt
agreed to work together at Google for twenty years, until the year 2024. The company's mission
statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally
accessible and useful", and the company's unofficial slogan – coined by Google engineer Amit
Patel and supported by Paul Buchheit – is "Don't be evil". In 2006, the company moved to its
current headquarters in Mountain View, California.
• Google's rapid growth since its incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and
partnerships beyond the company's coreweb search engine. The company offers online
productivity software, such as its Gmail email service, and social
networking tools, includingOrkut and, more recently, Google Buzz and Google+. Google's
products extend to the desktop as well, with applications such as the web browser Google
Chrome, the Picasa photo organization and editing software, and the Google Talk instant
messaging application. Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating
system, used on a number of phones such as the Motorola Droid and the Samsung
Galaxy smartphone series', as well as the new Google Chrome OS, best known as the main
operating system on the Cr-48 and also, since 15 June 2011, on commercial Chromebooks such as
the Samsung Series 5 and Acer AC700.

13. GOOGLE +
• Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus, sometimes abbreviated as G+) is
a social networking and identity service, operated by Google Inc.
• The service was launched on June 28, 2011, in an invite-only "field testing" phase. The following
day, existing users were allowed to invite friends who were over 18 years of age] to the service to
create their own accounts. This was suspended the next day due to an "insane demand" for
accounts. On August 6, each Google+ member had 150 invitations to give out, but on September
20, 2011, Google+ was opened to everyone 18 years of age or older without the need for an
invitation. After Google+ went public, users registered to Google+, but those under 18 years of
age were unable to sign up for Google+.
• Google+ integrates social services such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz, and introduces new
services identified as Circles, Hangouts and Sparks. Google+ is available as a web site, and will be
available as a desktop application, and is already available as a mobile application, but only on
the Android and iOS operating systems. Google has launched an API platform for
developers. Sources such as The New York Times have declared it Google's biggest attempt to
rival the social network Facebook,which had over 800 million users in 2011.
• At the initial launch, Google Apps accounts could not be used on Google+ due to lack of support
for Google Profiles. On October 27, Google announced that Google+ now supports Google Apps
users (if the user's domain administrator has enabled the service).