Web 2.0: it’s a technology that gradually replaces the first web found in internet based VS – virtual space. Its distinctive concept is obtaining content from and with the direct contribution from users. This technology offers the following:

• Users can use the web technology for building their own websites or photo-video albums for free; for certain services, large virtual spaces or more advanced options and pay a certain fee, if they can’t use them for free (ex. www.webgarden.com).
• The second type of online service is social networking, an increasingly popular use of the Internet today caused by the users’ need to communicate and share information.
• The third service can allow creating a valuable database that attract a larger and more diverse number of users.
• The fourth service involves a powerful, capable of semantic search, search engine.

via: mBiz: Mobile Business -  Mlesnita R.A., Editura AcademicPres, 2009, Cluj-Napoca – (ISBN 978-973-744-183-6)

Translated by Bogdan V. Hotea

Knowledge WEB helps:

• create an ontological web language familiar both to the EU and USA called: WOL - Web Ontology Language, for business: UBL – Universal Business Language;
• develop semantic search engines that rely on inserting-searching-finding both “key words” and the content of the desired subject (content search – eContent);
• the growth of inter-operable systems and networks based on knowledge: “knowledge-sharing systems-and-networks”;
• boost the research for:  Knowledge Discovery; Knowledge Engineering; Ontological Engineering; Semantics of Knowledge Representation; Web-based Knowledge Representation; OntoWeb; Ontology Languages and Tools; EML – Education Modelling Language; Semantic Web Technologies; Semantic Web Services; Intelligent Web Applications; Semantic Web Management.

Evening out the language and interfaces/terminals is essential for: reducing the efforts and current costs of compatibility between users-and-equipments; fine tuning the human-artificial intelligences; increasing communication and enrich the content – content knowledge.

via: mBiz: Mobile Business -  Mlesnita R.A., Editura AcademicPres, 2009, Cluj-Napoca – (ISBN 978-973-744-183-6)

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets (http://docs.google.com) offers a generous free space for creating a virtual office, equipped with various functions like: up-and-down load, writing and editing, organizing and managing documents.

The Semantic Internet: marks an evolution in the Internet caused by the introduction of semantic and cognitive technologies. The Semantic WEB is a more advanced form of the Knowledge WEB, where the cooperation between man and machine (human intelligence vs. artificial) take into account not only the meaning (ex. spelling, sense, jargon, abbreviation, sign, synonyms, homonyms, antonyms, phrase, syntax, grammar logic, etymology…) but also the connotations of words and sentences, images and sounds found on websites.

via: mBiz: Mobile Business -  Mlesnita R.A., Editura AcademicPres, 2009, Cluj-Napoca – (ISBN 978-973-744-183-6)

Translated by Bogdan V. Hotea

The story of the internet and e-mail[1]:  Legend has it that the titan Prometheus gave man fire. He paid dearly for this gesture, but the life of man changed for the better.

History, also tells us that the “titan” Ray Tomlinson gave man the e-mail. It happened in 1971 and the huge legacy left to mankind, the e-mail, is one of the setting stones of the Internet. Much like Prometheus, Ray Tomlinson had to pay for his gift: he was forgotten by many people. Asked during an interview if he thinks the e-mail changed society, Ray Tomlinson answered humbly: “Through e-mail people simply communicate more. They find answers to more questions and, the e-mail was and is a part of many solutions”.

Google prin Gmail – 1GB:  La mai bine de 30 de ani de la invenţia lui Ray Tomlinson, sute de milioane de utilizatori folosesc e-mail-ul în fiecare zi. Nu-i de mirare că cei care oferă servicii gratuite de e-mail sunt într-o concurenţă acerbă. Războiul titanilor a început în momentul în care Google a anunţat că va oferi serviciul de e-mail gratuit, Gmail. dacă anunţul s-ar fi rezumat la doar atât, apele ar fi rămas liniştite, dar în anunţul dat de Google se specifică că spaţiul de stocare va fi de 1000 megabytes  (1000MB), adică 1 gigabyte (1GB). Asul din mânecă pe care se bazează Google va fi un motor puternic de căutare cu ajutorul căruia se va putea găsi orice mesaj pe care deţinătorul contului de e-mail l-a trimis sau primit în orice perioadă de timp.

Yahoo offers 1 GB: Gmail managed to drop a bomb both in their competitors’ camp Yahoo and Hotmail, and among Internet users. The reply to Google’s move also came fast. Yahoo expanded the storing space for its free e-mail service, from 4 to 100 megabytes. At the beginning of 2004, Yahoo offered a 100MB storing space. Nowadays, 1GB of space is offered for free and the maximum capacity of an attached file also grew from 3 to 10MB. Also, yahoo reinforced its premium e-mail services: 20 USD/year for a storage space of 2GB. That is twice the space Google wanted to offer. Yahoo officials say that the premium version will have more features than Gmail including a better spam filter and the option to download e-mails with standard e-mail programs.

Hotmail also offers more: Meanwhile, silently, Microsoft expanded its storing space. What’s interesting is that not every Hotmail user received a larger e-mail storing space. Microsoft plans to change the Hotmail service: “We’ll try to make sure that storage won’t be a problem for our users” said the Vice-president of Microsoft, Yusuf Mehdi; he stated that Hotmail users will benefit from important innovations in communication services offered by Bill Gates’ colossus. Hotmail users have 250MB – Inbox storing space and can send 10MB “files-or-photos”. (http://www.microsoft-watch.com)

Spymac hits the market with 1GB: Despite Google’s promises, the first company which put to use a free e-mail service with a 1 GB storing space is Spymac. Same as Yahoo, the attachments that can be sent by e-mail from Spymac have a limit of 10MB. As an addition, Spymac offers 100MB for Web pages and 250MB storing space for pictures. This service is a POP3 service, meaning it can be configured to a number of known e-mail clients like Outlook Express, Eudora or Fox Mail. This cannot be done with Gmail and, for now, is not possible with yahoo either.

via: mBiz: Mobile Business -  Mlesnita R.A., Editura AcademicPres, 2009, Cluj-Napoca – (ISBN 978-973-744-183-6)

Translated by Bogdan V. Hotea

weBiz – web business is used increasingly more in many fields of both old and new economy. The concept of “bWeb-to-customer” seeks transforming the consumer into an e-customer, providing “b-web intelligent networks” – intelligent weBiz networks. This helps create a more friendly environment for the eClient “friendly-user environment”, for the purpose of satisfying his needs, desires and tastes.

The webpage or the site of a company is an intangible possession. To develop a business plan (BizPlan) for a business site (weBiz) we must set some tangible and intangible objectives that are realistic, and then answer the following questions:

• Who are our customers, what are their preferences and what is their location on the Internet?
• What are the corporate strategies and product strategies in the field of e-sales?
• How are the company’s features, products and services presented on the website?
• What’s the structure of marketing a webpage?
• How do these factors act to increase sales?
• What strategies can we apply for promoting and selling the product?
• What costs do the creation and launching of the Internet Business page imply?
• What costs does the sale of products online imply; how does this benefit the website?
• What is the lucrativeness rate – the number of consumers that should access the webpage for placing an order?
• Aproximately, how many customers will buy online?
• What would be the company’s turnover in the first and following years, what would be the cash flow?

via: mBiz: Mobile Business -  Mlesnita R.A., Editura AcademicPres, 2009, Cluj-Napoca – (ISBN 978-973-744-183-6)

Translated by Bogdan V. Hotea

Translated by Bogdan V. Hotea