EMPOWERMENT TECHNOLOGIES FEATURES OF WEB 2.

1. Folksonomy - allows user to categorize and classify

information using freely chosen key words
TEN RULES OF NETIQUETTE

1. Remember the human – be mindful of your words
2. Adhere to the same standards online that you follow
in real life. – maintain your behavior
3. Know where you are in cyberspace. - Cyberspace is
where you communicate online
4. Respect other people’s time and bandwidth. –
people have other priorities
5. Make yourself look good online. – be decent and
neat
6. Share expert knowledge
7. Help keep flame wars under control
8. Respect other people’s privacy.
9. Don’t abuse your power.
10. Be forgiving of other people’s mistake.
SIX TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA
a) Social Networks - These are sites that allows you to
connect with other people with the same interests or
background. Once the user creates his/her account,
he/she can set up a profile, add people, share content,
etc.
Example: Facebook and Google+
b) Bookmarking Sites - Sites that allow you to store and
manage links to various website and resources. Most of
the sites allow you to create a tag to others.
e.g. tagging by FB, Twitter, use tags that start with the
sign #, referred to as hashtag. – algorithm
2. Rich User Experience - content is dynamic and is
responsive to user’s input
3. User Participation - The owner of the website is not
the only one who is able to put content. Others are able
to place a content of their own by means of comments,
reviews and evaluation
e.g. Lazada, Amazon.
4. Long Tail - services that are offered on demand
rather than on a one-time purchase. This is synonymous
to subscribing to a data plan that charges you for the
amount of time you spent in the internet (binabayaran
monthly)
e.g. Netflix, Spotify, Grammarly
5. Software as a services - users will be subscribe to a
software only when needed rather than purchasing
them
e.g. Google docs used to create and edit word
processing and spread sheet.

Example: Stumble Upon, Pinterest 6. Mass Participation - diverse information sharing

through universal web access
c) Social News - Sites that allow users to post their own
news items or links to other news sources. The users
IMAGES ACRONYMS / PICTURES
can also comment on the post and comments may also
be rank.
a. JPG/JPEG - 16.7M COLORS
Example: Reddit and Digg
This pronounced as “jay-peg” and is the short
form of ·jpeg of Joint Photographic Expert Group
d) Media Sharing - sites that allow you to upload and
share media content like images, music and video.
b. GIF - 256 COLORS
Example: Flickr, YouTube and Instagram
This stands for Graphics Interchange Format.
This type of image file is capable of displaying
e) Microblogging - focus on short updates from the
transparencies.
user. Those that subscribed to the user will be able to
receive these updates.
c. PNG – 16M COLORS
Example: Twitter and Plurk
This is pronounced as “ping”. It stands for
Portable Network Graphics. It was built around the
f) Blogs and Forums – sites that allow users to post their
capabilities of .gif. Its development was basically for the
content. Other on the said topic. Other users are able
purpose of transporting images on the internet at faster
to comment.
rates.
Example: Blogger, WordPress and Tumblr