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From its
founding, Internet technologies have changed everything, from how we
communicate and get our news, to how we do business, play, shop, and so on.
Life continues to change every day. Now, we have streaming video on our
desktop computers, television shows on our cell phones, and video game
consoles which allow us to play with competitors located all over the world.
Today, we speak about the “high-tech Internet” like a huge virtual world,
which includes wireless internet, perfect video and audio communication
tools, nearly endless data banks with information on any subject, various
kinds of search engines and much, much more. Let’s take a look at these
high-tech technology achievements, to better understand the Internet
applications of Artificial Intelligence.
Internet Telephony
and ConferencingConference Group is a browser-enabled Chat/Conferencing/Messaging server application that allows companies to interact with clients or staff, dissolving geographical barriers, customer support without the aggravating wait, sales worldwide without expensive international offices, product development when the team is spread out geographically, distance learning… Whenever and wherever people need to work together or when people just want to chat. Other video collaboration products Avistar, Cisco Unified Meeting Place, DimDim , VSee and so on.
• Securely access work files from home, or a friend’s home, no matter where it is physically located
• Simultaneously search all users’ computers and all the content within them
• Instantly access personal files stored on a home computer, when the user is at work or on the road
• Listen to personal digital music from anywhere
• View photos and home videos from anywhere
• With the help of a remote, in-home webcam, monitor domestic situations and security, check up on elderly family members, or watch the kids or pets from anywhere
• Share photos and documents without having to e-mail big files, or upload content to a web site
• Share content safely, because everything remains on the user’s personal computer, and he or she can simply invite people in to view it
• be watched on a regular TV, on a computer, or on devices such as a mobile phones
• receive and view video
• allow the viewer to select a channel or program to watch “on-demand”
With the exception of
Internet-connectivity costs many online-television channels or sites are
free.
Recent research has shown that advertising on Internet TV is nearly 50% more
attractive for consumers, as compared to advertising on traditional TV.
Current providers of internet television use various technologies to
provide a service such as peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies,
VoD systems, and live streaming. BBC iPlayer makes use of the
Adobe Flash Player to provide streaming-video clips and other
software provided by Adobe for its download service
Online Social Networks
Online social networks are becoming a true growth trend of the Internet. As individuals constantly desire to contact each others, the ability for the Internet to deliver this networking capabilities growth stronger and stronger. There are a plenty of excellent resources available to anybody 24 hours per day.
Facebook is the world's largest
social network, with about one billion users worldwide..
More than any other company, it has defined
what some see as the "social'' era of the Internet, in which connections
made among people replace algorithm-driven searches. In addition, its
policies, more than any others, seem to be driving the definition of privacy
in this new age. Every day, Facebook users comment or press the “like”
button more than 2 billion times and upload more than 250 million photos.
The McKinsey Global Institute has estimated that the network's users post 30
billion pieces of content every month.
The company, founded in 2004 by a Harvard sophomore, Mark
Zuckerberg, began life catering first to Harvard students and then to all
high school and college students. It has since evolved into a broadly
popular online destination used by teenagers and adults of all ages. In
country after country, Facebook has cemented itself as the leader, often
displacing other social networks.
Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011,generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day
Internet Fax services
Instant Messaging Services and Chat Systems
In 1996, four young programmers from Israel
(who later founded the company, Mirabilis) launched the first version of
ICQ. Today, practically no one can remember who came up with the name of the
program. Many people agree on the interpretation that the abbreviation was
intended to sound like “I seek you”. ICQ became one of the first
Internet-wide instant messaging (IM) services, where each party in a text
communication typically sees each line of text right after a new line is
started.
This was a great technical revolution in the area of communication services.
With the ICQ program, the Internet made strides toward a truly real-time
two-way, interactive, person-to-person global communication system.
Instant messaging differs from e-mail because communication is in real time.
In some ways, IM is less intrusive and more convenient than a phone
conversation. Most IM services also offer the option to see the participants
during a communication, through the use of a webcam.
In addition to ICQ (www.icq.com), which services more than 700 million
instant messages sent and received every day, other popular instant
messaging services include AOL Instant Messenger (www.aim.com), Yahoo!
Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com), Qnext (www.qnext.com), Windows Live
Messenger (http://messengersays.spaces.live.com), and others.
Based on IM systems, a chat room (or chatroom) is an online environment,
whereby groups of people can talk by broadcasting messages in real time to
each other on the same web site.
Chat rooms usually set rules that visitors are required to follow, in order
to maintain the integrity and safety of their users. Particularly in chat
rooms for children, the rules typically do not allow the use of offensive
language, the promotion of hate, violence, and other negative issues. Also,
chat rooms often do not allow advertising. Chat systems come in a variety of
styles, ranging from text-only messaging systems to fully-immersive 3-D
environments. The most popular environments allow users to create or “build”
their own spaces. However, some find these types of environments cumbersome
to use, and actually an impediment to chatting.
Various versions of Yahoo! Messenger, for example, include the following
features:
• Instant Messaging
• Chat Rooms
• Photo Sharing
• PC-to-PC Calls
• PC-to-Phone Calls
• Messaging to Mobile Phones
• Conferencing
• File Transferring
• Games
Web-Based Mail
Web-based mail (webmail) is a web application
that allows users to access their e-mail through a web browser, as an
alternative to using a special mail program, such as Microsoft Outlook,
Mozilla, Thunderbird, or Eudora. The most notable of these are Hotmail,
Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail.
Otherwise, to have a web-based mail service, the user must run webmail
software (client agent) on his web server. This can be one of several
notable open source software programs, such as OpenWebmail (http://openwebmail.org),
RoundCube (http://roundcube.net) or SquirrelMail (http://squirremail.com).
Many Internet Service Providers offer webmail for their customers.
Webmail services have the following advantages:
• E-mail is stored remotely on a server, which means that it is accessible anywhere
• Centralized maintenance of the e-mail system — upgrades and security fixes are done by the administrator, and there is no need to install, update and patch local e-mail clients
• The Internet service provider typically organizes a free antivirus mail protection for their users
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