Name: Internet User's Reference By Terena
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Internet User's Reference Summary

Internet User's Reference: 2002 Edition by Terena

Find what you need on the internet fast with this no-nonsense independent reference to the net's most credible information resources and networking tools - a handy, up-to-the minute guide to using internet technologies in your work: research, communication, collaboration, publishing, information retrieval etc etc. Each topic is covered with concise, hype-free explanation and a wealth of web references pointing you towards the most useful and popular online resources. Coverage includes the latest in searching, XML technologies, email, real-time multimedia communication, state of the art web authoring etc.

About Terena

TERENA is the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (www.terena.nl). Their mission statement is "to pormote and participate in the development of a high quality international information and telecommunications infrastructure for the benefit of research and education".

Contents Preface vii 1 Web tools 1 1.1 The World Wide Web 2 1.2 Web browsers 8 1.2.1 Netscape Communicator 9 1.2.2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 1.2.3 Opera 10 1.2.4 Lynx 11 1.3 Web search tools 11 1.4 Web search engines 13 1.4.1 AltaVista 19 1.4.2 AskJeeves 21 1.4.3 Excite 22 1.4.4 FAST (alltheweb.com) 23 1.4.5 Google 24 1.4.6 HotBot 25 1.4.7 GO 27 1.4.8 Lycos 28 1.4.9 Northern Light 30 1.5 Meta-searchers 31 1.5.1 MetaCrawler 33 1.5.2 Search.com 34 1.6 Classified directories 35 1.6.1 Yahoo! 37 1.6.2 Subject gateways 39 1.7 Portal services 40 1.8 New developments in Web searching 42 1.8.1 Advances in search engine technology 42 1.8.2 Intelligent agents 43 1.9Metadata 45 2 SPECIALIST SEARCH tools 47 2.1 Directory services 47 2.1.1 CSO 48 2.1.2 LDAP 48 2.1.3 X.500 49 2.1.4 Whois 50 2.1.5 Whois++ 51 2.2 Searching for people, organizations and software 51 2.2.1 Locating people with common interests 52 2.2.2 Finding contact details for people 53 2.2.3 Finding email addresses 54 2.2.4 Searching for companies and organizations 56 2.2.5 Finding and retrieving software 56 2.3 Databases 61 2.4 Local services 61 2.5 Keeping current 62 3 COMMUNICATION AND Sharing information 65 3.1 Email 66 3.2 Mailing lists 69 3.2.1 LISTSERV 72 3.3 Usenet News 77 3.4 Synchronous and asynchronous communication 79 3.4.1 Web conferencing 80 3.4.2 Chat 83 3.4.3 Videoconferencing 86 3.4.4 Audioconferencing/Internet telephony 89 3.4.5 MBone 91 3.4.6 Streaming 98 3.5 Group collaboration 99 3.5.1 Collaborative functions 100 3.5.2 Software for collaboration 102 3.5.3 WebDAV 105 3.6 ftp 106 4 web publishing 109 4.1 Web authoring 109 4.1.1 Web authoring tools 110 4.1.2 HTML: HyperText Markup Language 113 4.2 Publishing Web pages 115 4.3 Graphics in Web pages 117 4.3.1 Image formats 117 4.3.2 Efficient and effective images 118 4.3.3 Imagemaps/clickable images 119 4.3.4 Graphics software 120 4.4 Multimedia 124 4.4.1 Multimedia software 127 4.5 Interactive Web pages 130 4.5.1 Dynamic content and caching 131 4.5.2 Dynamic HTML 132 4.5.3 Java 135 4.5.4 JavaScript 136 4.5.5 Common Gateway Interface 137 4.5.6 Active Server Pages 139 4.5.7 Server Side Includes 140 4.5.8 Cookies 142 4.6 Web databases 143 4.6.1 Web/database tools 145 4.7 XML 147 5 security and encryption 153 5.1 Security issues 154 5.2 Encryption 157 5.3 Security on the Web 160 5.4 Secure email 161 5.5 PGP 163 5.6 SSH 164 Appendix A File formats and associated software 167 Glossary 171 Bibliography 177 Index 180

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GOR006726852

ISBN 13

9780201758382

ISBN 10

0201758385

Title

Internet User's Reference: 2002 Edition by Terena

Author

Terena

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Pearson Education (US)

Year published

2001-11-14

Number of pages

192

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Internet User's Reference Terena

Internet User's Reference by Terena

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