| Edition |
1st Ironbound Press ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 350 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336) and index. |
| Contents |
The pre-Web Internet and information management. Waiting for the Web's arrival ; The history of hypertext ; Information management and the Internet. -- The Web is born. A working definition of the Web ; Tim Berners-Lee and a short history of the Web ; Web history details ; The Web is formed ; The Web is discovered ; The Web spins threads of control. -- The mechanics of the Web. The building blocks of the Web ; The applications of the Web. -- The information Web. Finding information ; Storing and representing information ; Automating the discovery and protection of information. -- The multimedia Web. Publications ; Audio ; Video ; Multimedia built for the Web: Applets, Flash, and 3D. -- The business Web. Web business successes ; Web business failures ; Businesses that build and support the Web. -- The people Web. There is no place like home: Web home pages ; In search of publicity: public people on the Web ; In search of work: job hunting ; In search of love: Web dating ; In search of family: Web genealogy ; The quest for self expression: blogs and blogging. -- The shadow Web. Web banners: advertisements that track our movements ; Web logs: files that record our movements ; Web bugs: code that captures our actions ; Affiliate management: organizations that live off our movements ; Data mining: operations that turn our data into gold. -- The semantic Web. Representing information: metadata, RDF, and XML ; Discovering information: navigating the semantic Web ; Trusting information: the Web of trust ; The big (semantic Web) picture. -- Appendix A: Milestones, netiquette, and jargon. World Wide Web milestones ; Netiquette ; Common Internet jargon. |
| Subject |
Internet.
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Internet -- History.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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World Wide Web.
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| ISBN |
0976385740 (cloth) |
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0976385732 (pbk) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2265470 |
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