tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21419463700133946932011-07-28T12:14:56.345-07:00This is a very interesting module. It tries to identify and explain the features and technologies that makes the world Wide Web even more dynamic and global. ( Career Goal: "How to make the web available to all" )IVAN MAKOGEnoreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141946370013394693.post-46363515693722764252009-04-02T03:09:00.000-07:002011-03-11T15:50:47.617-08:00

It seems lately that you can't turn around without finding a blog on the Web. But what exactly is a blog? Depending on who you talk to, a blog is a personal Web diary, a collection of short, dated discussions with commentary, or a way of publishing news and information.

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1) W3C HTML Validation: http://validator.w3.org/. W3C HTML Validation service will check your HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML standards. 2) HTML Tidy: http://infohound.net/tidy/ . HTML Tidy is a tool for checking and cleaning up HTML source files. It is especially useful for finding and correcting errors in deeply nested HTML and validates your HTML documents off-line on your own

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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from search engimes. SEO involves designing a website so that search engines like google easily find the pages and index them. the goal is to have your page in at least the top 10 results of a search.Different search engines use different criteria and

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Extreme Programming (XP)Extreme Programming (XP) is one of the several agile software engineering methodologies. The main aim of XP is to reduce the cost of change during development ; unlike in the traditional approach where the requirements for the system are determined at the beginning of the development cycle, which becomes very costly and time consuming to implement new requirements

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Agile DevelopmentAgile development are methodologies that have been proven to be more effective in dealing with business realities such as changing requirements during development. It also promotes industry best practices that emphasises on customer involvement, delivering product in small working pieces that sum to the total working system. All of this in a timely and cost effective manner.Agile

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Web Site ManagementWhile high attention and large volumes have been written on website design and development, little importance have been given to the proper management and maintenance of these sites. Reports have shown that beautifully coded websites have crumbled, gone out of date or lost their aim and purpose because of the lack of proper management and maintenance.In response to this , Shane

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SHAZAMShazam is an amazing leading music recognition technology.Through a cell phone, It recognises and checks the identity of music in a noisy environment.How Shazam Works:Step1: When you hear a track you like and don't recognise, 'shazam' it by dialing 2580 on your mobile phone.Step 2: When Shazam answers, direct the phone to the sound source.Step 3: After 20 seconds, Shazam will hang up and

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GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY Google is one of the biggest names in the IT industry. It is most reputed for operating the leading internet search engine. It is also one of the fore runners in the development of contemporary web 2.0 applications like their Google Maps, Google Adsence and Google Blog. Google is also known for being the company who bought youtube, one of the most visited site on the internet.-

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"Social Network Analysis is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, web sites, and other information/knowledge processing entities. The nodes in the network are the people and groups while the links show relationships or flows between the nodes. SNA provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis of human relationships. Management

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Social NetworksSocial network in this perspective is about social networking websites. These sites provide a virtual community of like minded people to communicate on a particular subject of interest or simply about anything and everything. It provides facilities/applications that ease the sharing of pictures, voice, instant messages, video conferencing etc.There has been a rapid increase in the

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Web 2.0web 2.0 is a word that was coined by O'Reilly Media and CMP media to describe the second stage in the evolution hierarchy of the world wide Web. Web 2.0 include technologies such as Weblogs( like this site you are actually reading ), networking sites ( Facebook, Hi5, Delicious etc), wikis ( wikipedia), podcast, RSS Feeds and many other online web services ( ebay, Gmail etc).During the

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Yahoo! Pipes ( The Web as a Database )Yahoo! Pipes is a web application technology developed by Yahoo! that works towards making the web a database. Yahoo! Pipes provides a graphical user interface for building applications that aggregate web content( web pages, RSS Feeds) and other services.It remixes the world wide web by creating Web-based applications that takes different material from

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Web LanguagesThere are many different programming languages (Markup Languages, Query Languages , Stylesheets Languages, Scripting Languages etc) that are collectively used to develop websites and web applications. Below are the name-link to wikipedia information about some of the Languages, and respective links to learning materials.HTML : learn HTMLCSS : learn CSSXML: Learn XMLXSL : Learn XSLSQL

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According to www.answers.comPODCAST: (iPOD broadCAST) An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player or computer. The "pod" in podcast was coined from "iPod," the predominant portable, digital music player, and although podcasts are mostly verbal, they may contain music.Using the RSS 2.0 syndication format, podcasts are

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Web LanguagesThere are many different programming languages (Markup Languages, Query Languages , Stylesheets Languages, Scripting Languages etc) that are collectively used to develop websites and web applications. Below are the name-link to wikipedia information about some of the Languages, and respective links to learning materials.HTML : learn HTMLCSS : learn CSSXML: Learn XMLXSL : Learn XSLSQL

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"always have I been a runner on the information superhighway;but today I have the possibility to ease my journey,by strolling with RSS" by Ivan MakogeFrom the TV footage of a street interview I watched, passers-by where randomly asked what RSS meant. We would expect many answers to this strange question,from highly convincing answers like Royal Security Service to intriguing once like Really Safe

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