Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication is what RSS means. This is a “format for syndicating news and the content of news”. If you look for some information with the RSS format, it is likely that the information you get is more or less what you wanted, and you get it quickly and updated [...]
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Posted in Littera, ist on 8 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Hypertext
Posted in Littera, ist on 7 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When we talk about Hypertext, we are referring to a text that leads you to another text usually through hyperlinks. This term was created by Ted Nelson, and he defined it as “a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on [...]
The Markup Language HTML
Posted in Littera, ist on 7 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hyper Text Markup Language; this is what HTML means, and it’s a system usually used in the WWW which refers to both documents and the Markup Language they are written in, a system of tags.
The tags typed on the texts, which act like codes, enable the browsers find the texts that have previously been saved [...]
Hypermedia
Posted in Littera, ist on 5 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The hypermedia is an extension of the hypertext. The latter is a text which has links to other texts, whereas the first one contains links to multimedia objects such as sound, video or even hyperlinks. As Joaquín Márquez Correa says in one article that “the hypermedia forces the relation between the man and the computer; [...]
Different webs, different benefits
Posted in Littera, ist on 5 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The era of the Internet and the Web started with the Web 1.0, where you could only get the information that others left, for you couldn’t leave comments, answers… but people started writing as well, so that web format had to change.
The “dot com” collapsed, and for O’ Reilly VP and Dale Dougherty (web pioneer) [...]
Kevin Kelly talks about the next 5000 days of the Web
Posted in Littera, ist on 4 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kevin Kelly, Editor-At-Large for “Wired” magazine, makes a brief introduction in his speech about the Web by saying that ten years ago we wouldn’t even imagine that we would be able to do all the things we do nowadays on the internet. And he wonders what will happen in ten years [...]
Who is Kevin Kelly?
Posted in Littera, ist on 27 October 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been told to write an article about Kevin Kelly’s lecture about “The next 5000 days of the web”, but first , I’ve written an article talking about him.
As wikipedia says “Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He has also been [...]