Chapter 5 Getting More Out of the Internet

Portals in a previous chapter we learned about how a single web based interface to a company's general business information, Intranet,and Extranet is a portal. There is a such thing as vertical and Industry portals, they are sometimes called vortals provide the gateway for visitors with their interests such as gardening, woman's interests, children's activities, social issues. Corporate portals are also called enterprise information portals. The employees customers vender's, mainly for business information, and customization. News's, sports, weather, and traffic resources they became a source of readily accessible information, most people used newspaper magazines, radio, and television to stay informed about current events. To explore news and traffic web sites. You can find the latest news and information on traffic and sports sites. To streaming media, many news's sites such as CNN.com, they put video clips of games highlights and then the Radio web sites provide clips which is delivered from a web server to a web browser is called streaming Media. There are online encyclopedias that you are probably familiar with, with an Internet connection, you can access a number of online encyclopedia's such as encyclopedia.com, and etc... There is also a thing on the Internet in which you can find words that you don't know the definition, they are called online dictionaries. There are many online planners for example if your planning a trip you can go to Google Maps, or Yahoo! Maps or Expedia.com to look up different things for planning your trip. A site such as Map quest or Free trip, you type in your state and the address and you should receive all you information.