The Web : Actors, Data, Technologies

The Web is both a virtual and real space, a world in which we live through nicks and avatars and an interface with businesses and organizations in the real world.

Actors of the Web

The sites and key services they provide to webmasters.

• Google.
• Google sites.
• Anatomy of the search engine.
• Knol.
• Earth: travel in the World and the time.
• Second Life
  A virtual universe that is still expanding.
• StreetView.
• Yahoo! the success of the collaborative way.
• MySpace.
  The rise and the decline.
• Youtube
  Another success story. Best videos.
• Facebook
  Should us register?
• Wolfram Alpha
  A search engine that understands the questions.
• Bing
  The Microsoft's engine vs. Google.
• Twitter essentials.
• The Dmoz Directory.
• Wikipedia.
• What is AOL now?

Technologies

The basics of Web development and the world of browsers.

• Cookies and programming.
• MySQL. The database manager of CMS and Web services.
• WebGL. 3D in the browser.
• WebKit. Rendering engine of Safari and Chrome browsers.
• Xauth.org.

Statistics

• Key data of the Web.
• How many servers do they have?
• Most visited websites.
• Alexa. Knowing the traffic of a website.

The life of the Web

• Obituaries of the Web. New sites and big abandoned sites.
• US patents. A nightmare for startups.
• Origine of the name of Web actors.

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