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The Internet is a worldwide, publicly
accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by
packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of
networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and
government networks, which together carry various information and services, such
as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked web pages
and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW).
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About.com
About.com is an online source for original
information and advice, and is among the top 15 US Websites (Nielsen Online
Spring 2008). It is written in English, and is aimed primarily at North
Americans. It is owned by The New York Times Company. The site’s content is
dynamic, attempting to keep up with new information and changing consumer
interests. About.com is divided into topic sites, which are grouped into
channels and cover subjects from home repair to pediatrics and model railroading
and weather. The content is written by a network of over 700 journalists, called
Guides, who have some experience in their particular fields. Each Guide looks
after one subject and is the exclusive writer for that subject. Content on the
site can take the form of articles, online courses, interactive quizzes, videos
and so forth.
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Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced
a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) is an American computer software
company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in
December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company
after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page
description language. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its
LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. The
company name Adobe comes from Adobe Creek, which ran behind the house of one of
the company's founders. Adobe acquired its former competitor, Macromedia, in
December 2005.
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Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based
subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that
provides information on web traffic to other websites.
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Answers.com
Answers.com is a website that presents
reference content in over four million entries, collected from multiple sources.
Launched in January 2005, the website is the primary product of the Answers
Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) (previously GuruNet), an Israel-based Internet
reference company with offices in New York City and Jerusalem and founded by Bob
Rosenschein in 1999.
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Ask.com
Ask.com is a search engine. It is a
business division of IAC Search & Media, and was founded in 1996 by Garrett
Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was
implemented by Gary Chevsky from his own design. Three venture capital firms,
Highland Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, and The RODA Group were early
investors.
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CNET Networks
CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNET) is a
publicly-held media company based in San Francisco, California, United States
and co-founded in 1993 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie. On May 15, 2008, it
was announced that CBS Corporation would buy CNET Networks for US$1.8 billion.
The deal is expected to close in the third quarter.
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Download.com
Download.com is an Internet download
directory website, launched in 1996 as a part of CNET. Download.com offers
content in four major categories: Software (including PC, Mac, and mobile),
Music, Games, and Videos, offered for download via FTP from Download.com's
servers or third-party servers. Videos are streams (at present) and music is all
free MP3 downloads, or occasionally rights-managed WMAs or streams.
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Facebook
Facebook (branded as "facebook") is a
social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. The free-access website
is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks
organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with
other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update
their personal profile to notify friends about themselves. The website's name
refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some
American colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty,
and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.
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Flickr
Flickr is an image and video hosting
website, web services suite, and online community platform. It was one of the
earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users
to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo
repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which
allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. As of November 2007,
it hosts more than two billion images.
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Gmail
Gmail, officially Google Mail in Germany
and the United Kingdom, is a free Web-based email (webmail), POP3 and IMAP
e-mail service provided by Google. On April 1, 2004 the product began as an
invitation-only beta release. On February 7, 2007 the beta version was opened to
the general public. With an initial storage capacity of 1 GB, it drastically
increased the standard for free storage.
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Go Daddy
Go Daddy is an Internet domain registrar
and web hosting company, which also sells e-business related software and
services.
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Google
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA)
is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to
its Internet search, web-based e-mail, online mapping, office productivity,
social networking, and video sharing as well as selling advertising-free
versions of the same technologies. Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, is
located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2008 the company has
19,156 full-time employees. As of October 31, 2007, it is the largest American
company (by market capitalization) that is not part of the Dow Jones Industrial
Average.
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Google AdWords
AdWords is Google's flagship advertising
product and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC)
advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads. The
AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution.
Google's text advertisements are short, consisting of one title line and two
content text lines. Image ads can be one of several different Interactive
Advertising Bureau (IAB) standard sizes. Google's AdWords division is based in
Ann Arbor, Michigan, the company's third-largest facility behind its Mountain
View, California, headquarters and New York City office.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive (IA) is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line library and archive of Web and
multimedia resources. Located at the Presidio in San Francisco, California, this
archive includes "snapshots of the World Wide Web" (archived copies of pages,
taken at various points in time), software, movies, books, and audio recordings.
To ensure the stability and endurance of the archive, IA is mirrored at the
Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, the only library in the world with a mirror.
The IA makes the collections available at no cost to researchers, historians,
and scholars. It is a member of the American Library Association and is
officially recognized by the State of California as a library.
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Jupitermedia
Jupitermedia, Inc. NASDAQ: JUPM, is a
U.S.-based corporation, established in 1994, and headquartered in Darien, CT.
The company is a global provider of original information, images and digital
content for information technology, business and creative professionals.
JupiterMedia has two divisions: Jupiterimages and JupiterWeb.
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MSN
MSN (The Microsoft Network) is a
collection of Internet services provided by Microsoft. The Microsoft Network
debuted as an online service and Internet service provider on August 24, 1995,
to coincide with the release of the Windows 95 operating system.
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MySpace
MySpace is a popular social networking
website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal
profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults
internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, USA, where
it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media;
which is owned by News Corporation, which has its headquarters in New York City.
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RealNetworks
RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK) is a provider
of Internet media delivery software and services based in Seattle, United
States. The company is best known for the creation of RealAudio, a compressed
audio format, RealVideo, a compressed video format and RealPlayer, a media
player. The company is also known for its subscription-based online
entertainment services like Rhapsody, SuperPass, and RealArcade, and for its
media properties like Film.com and RollingStone.com (which it operates in
partnership with Rolling Stone owners Wenner Media).
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Technorati
Technorati is an Internet search engine
for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008,
Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged
social media. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the
technological version of literati or intellectuals. Technorati was founded by
Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek
Çelik was the site's Chief Technologist.
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open
content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit
Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology
for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy
Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest, fastest-growing, and most
popular general reference work on the Internet. Wikipedia is a project that
attempts to summarize all of human knowledge.
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American
public corporation incorporated and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, in
Silicon Valley and a global Internet services company. It provides a range of
products and services including a Web portal, a search engine, the Yahoo!
Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting. It was founded by Stanford University
graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of 1994 and incorporated
on March 1, 1995.
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