This document discusses various online platforms. It defines online platforms as digital services that facilitate interactions between users via the internet. Major categories of online platforms include social media, search engines, communication services, payment systems, advertising platforms, and creative content outlets. Key points include: - Search engines like Google and Bing index webpages and return search results. - Communication services provide outsourced enterprise solutions like telecom, internet, and cable. - Payment systems settle financial transactions through transfer of monetary value via institutions, instruments, and technologies. - Advertising platforms allow users to create and manage ad campaigns and access reporting. - Creative content outlets translate topics into creative presentations.

1. Facebook

2. Tumblr

3. MS PowerPoint

4. Google Maps

5. Adobe Photoshop

6. Google Chrome

7. YouTube

8. Blogger

10. LandBank

11. Smart Telecommunications

12. Online Systems, Functions,
and Platforms

13. PLATFORMS
If you can program it, then it’s a platform.
If you can’t, then it’s not.”
- Marc Andreessen

14. Online Platforms in ICT
is a digital service that uses the Internet to facilitate interactions
between two or more separate but interdependent users (whether
they are companies or private individuals).
It makes it easier for users to interact, to collect, and use the data
from the user’s interactions for their own particular needs.

15. Online Platform Categories
• Social Media
• Search Engines
• Communication Services
• Payment Systems
• Advertising Platforms
• Creative Content Outlets

24. PLATFORMS
Web Search Engines
It is a software system that is designed to search for
information on the World Wide Web (WWW). The search
results are generally presented in a line of results referred to
as Search Engine Results Page (SERPs).
The information may be a mix of webpages, images,
and other types of files.

25. Top 10 Search Engines (2016)
1. Google
2. Bing (Microsoft)
3. Yahoo (No. 1 email provider)
4. Ask.com (Ask Jeeves)
5. AOL.com (America Online)
6. Baidu (China)
7. Wolframalpha (Computational
Knowledge Engine)
8. DuckDuckGo (simple)
9. Internet Archive (histories of a
domain)
10. ChaCha.com (similar to Ask.com)

26. PLATFORMS
Communication Services
These are outsourced enterprise communications
solutions that can be leased from a single vendor or provider.
A Communications Service Provider (CSP) is a provider
that transports information electronically and can encompass
public and private companies in telecom, internet, cable,
satellite, and managed services business.

27. Telecom &
Internet
Cable

28. PLATFORMS
Payment System
It is any system used to settle financial transactions
through transfer of monetary value, and includes the
institutions, instruments, people, rules, procedures,
standards, and technologies.

31. PLATFORMS
Advertising Platforms
It allows users to create and manage advertising
campaigns, generate reports, and retrieve information
about the ads, campaigns, and organizations that are
associated with an account.

35. PLATFORMS
Creative Content Outlets
It is content that needs to be translated creatively.
Topic/concept  Creative presentation it

39. ONLINE PLATFORMS
1. Presentation Tools – Prezi, Zoho Shows, MS PowerPoint.
2. Newsletter, ICT Content Platforms – Dropbox, Tumblr, Wix
3. Photo Editing Tools – Picasa, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP
4. Video Editing Tools – Sony Vegas Pro, Windows Movie Maker,
Adobe Premier Pro
5. Photo uploading and hosting Tools – Dropbox, Flickr
6. Online Collaborative Tools – Google Drive, Viber, Facebook
7. Cloud Computing – Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive

40. ONLINE PLATFORMS
8. Blog Tools – Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal
9. Mapping Tools – Google Maps, Waze, Wikimapia
10. Music Production – Sony Vegas Pro, Audacity, Virtual DJ
11. Survey and Forms – Google Forms
12. ICT Projects and Content Publishing and Uploading Platforms –
WordPress, MS Office Project Server, File Manager
13. Web Design Platforms – Wix, Weebly, Adobe Dreamweaver
14. Web Management Platforms – Drupal, WordPress, Joomla

41. Facebook

42. Tumblr

43. MS PowerPoint

44. Google Maps

45. Adobe Photoshop

46. Google Chrome

47. YouTube

48. Blogger

49. LandBank

50. Smart Telecommunications

51. Activity 2: Reflect on the following questions and answer them briefly on your
activity sheets