Electronic Publishing includes magazines, newspapers, and books that are now available online. Today, there are online magazines with full content. This helpful for college students who do not receive magazines because are able to read the articles without needing to obtain the physical version. Some examples of electronic publishing include weather.com, and corporate sites.
Entertainment is the downloading of music, movies, and television. It mostly occurs due to file sharing like Napster and BitTorrent. YouTube, another example, has more viewers than prime-time television.
Online Games on the Internet can be described as intense inactivity. A large numbers of users play together online. World of Worldcraft, a game of sorcery and magic, has about 9 million players, including my own brother. There are also social interactive games, such as The Sims.
Portals are web pages that users launch when they first log into the web. These may include Yahoo!, AOL, and MSN. Conventional portals are in competition with social networking sites.
Search Engines find information that best matches the words typed into the search window. The giant of this content is Google.
Communities are social media where users share content with each other. Facebook and MySpace include profiles, news, and entertainment. Another example, Wikipedia, is a site that is edited by its users.
Blogs are personal web pages, online directories, personal diaries, or newspaper editorial pages. An example is what you are looking at right now!
Electronic Commerce is shopping online. Amazon offers vast amount of products like a mall. You can also buy services, such as Expedia, a travel agency.
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