Learning Journal Post #5

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing has become a constant system we have by sending and retrieving information. FTP, or File Transfer Protocol is a program used to transfer information from one computer to another. What's also useful about FTP is having a server where you can upload all the content you wish to transfer. FTP has client programs anyone can use such as Fire FTP. It a much easier and faster way to send files unlike e-mailing where you need to send your files as attachments. A disadvantage to that is you can't make your files public through e-mail, only one person will be able to see your work.

Different from fire sharing, Peer-to-Peer Networking is a famous way for people to have music files downloaded, or even movie content. When your computer is connected to the network of the file sharing, you gain what is called a 'tracker.' All shared files have their own tracker, and connecting to one tracker will make you unable to share files. Every tracker has a piece of that file needed. Unfortunately we must be careful what we download, because it could be copyrighted, and anyone P2P sharing in this process could end up with the consequences of 'illegally downloading.'

In all honesty, I never knew about Web 2.0 tools until now. I've been using them to share content through the Social Websites, and never really heard about the term. Web 2.0 is in comparison to a new generation of using the Internet, where as there's a difference to just being online rather than going online. It's very reliant on the Social aspect of it. In Social Bookmarking we use a method called Folksonomy or a way we create tags to organize out content collected. In other words tags have the same use as bookmarks. Tag clouds is a term I've never heard of up until this point. It's when the tags people online use the most, become "Popular tags" and list of tags show the popular tags through visually making the text bigger and bolder in the tag list.

Here is a visual representation of how a Tag Cloud looks when it has popular tags:

The Semantic Web is a new form of web that will possibly be used in our future. It's a Web that's able to describe, to make your computer have the ability to understand. It relies on relationship instead of links, meaning the computer will be able to relate words or phrases to what they initially means. For now the computer is just blindly retrieving information we look up. If we have the Semantic web, the computer will have an understanding what you are looking for and can gain better results.

Here's a video explaining how the Semantic web would work:

Five Words I have learned:

Shareware- Software that you can download and try out, but you are expected to pay for the software if you decided to use it on a permanent basis.

Anonymous FTP Sites- because anyone can log on to these sites using "Anonymous" as their username.

Command Prompt Window- A Windows operating system using FTP by typing instructions in the client program to your web browser.

FTP Client- a program that offers an easy-to-use graphical user interface containing menu commands and toolbar shortcuts.

Peer to Peer(P2P) file-sharing network- allows files to be transferred between individual personal computers located on the same local are network (LAN) or between individual personal computers to the internet.