Questions, Part II 5/15

# Who edits Wikipedia?



# What is Web 2.0?

a perceived second-generation of Web based communities and hosted services — such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

# What is a social network?

a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of relations, such as financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology), or airline routes.

# Which corporation owns Myspace.com?

News Corporation

# How do Digg.com and Reddit.com work?

Digg ~ It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.

Reddit ~ The site also has discussion areas where users may discuss the posted links. Users may also vote for or against others' comments. When there are enough votes against a given comment, it will not be displayed by default, although a reader can cause it to be shown through a link or preference. Users who submit articles which are liked and subsequently voted up receive "karma", points which a user receives as a reward for submitting interesting articles.

# Why do people visit Monster.com?

Monster has a powerful job search engine which those seeking work can use to find job offers that match their skills and (present or preferred) locales.

Today, Monster is still one of the largest job search web sites on the Internet, claiming over a million job postings at any time and over 41 million resumes in the database. With approximately 5,000 employees in 26 countries, the company has a powerful global brand and unparalleled international reach. Monster is the only pan-European employment website and is growing fast in developing markets such as India.

# What does FTP stand for?

File Transfer Protocol is used to transfer data from one computer to another over the Internet, or through a network.

# What does HTTP mean?

a method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. Its original purpose was to provide a way to publish and retrieve HTML pages.

# What is the file extension for Flash media that is available to see online?



# What is the file extension for Microsoft Word files?

.DOC

# What is the file extension for Microsoft Excel files?

XLS

# What is the difference between Excel and Word?

Excel ~ is a spreadsheet program written and distributed by Microsoft for computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system and for Apple Macintosh computers.

Word ~ is Microsoft's flagship word processing software.

# What is the file extension for Microsoft PowerPoint?

PPT

# How is Google Documents different from Microsoft Word and Excel?

G.D. could do both. It does Spredsheets and Word Processing.

# What is Linux?

a Unix-like computer operating system family, as well as one of the most prominent examples of free software and open source development; its underlying source code source code can be modified, used, and redistributed by anyone, freely.

# How does Linux differ from Microsoft Windows?



# What is 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.

# How would one profit from Adsense?