The document discusses different types of online systems and platforms. It describes social media, search engines, communication services, payment systems, advertising platforms, and creative content outlets. It also mentions various online platforms and applications for tools like presentation, photo uploading and hosting, photo editing, cloud computing, newsletters, mapping, music production, surveys, publishing projects and contents, content management, curating, web design, and web management. It concludes by defining a platform as something that can be programmed.

1. Online Systems,
Function
and
Platforms

2. Social
Media
websites and
applications
that enable
users to
create and
share content
or to
participate in
social
networking

3. Search
engines
computer software
used
to search data
(such as text or
a database) for
specified
information also
: a site on the
World Wide Web
that uses such
software to
locate key words
in other sites

4. COMMUNICATIO
N
SERVICESinclude services for
remote transmission
of voice, data,
texts, sound and
images

5. PAYMENT
SYSTEMS
 is any system
used to settle
financial
transactions
through the
transfer of
monetary value.

6. Advertising
platforms
 advertising
platform provides a
mechanism that
facilitates the
monetization of
sites and
applications
through
targeted advertisin
g channels designed
to gain revenue
from the traffic of
mobile users.

7. Creative
content
outlets
 creative
content marketin
g is all about
providing people
with the type
of content they'
re craving,
something they
haven't seen
before.

8. Online Platforms
And
Application

9. Presentation tools
PHOTO UPLOADING AND
HOSTING TOOLS
PHOTO EDITING TOOLS Cloud computing
NEWSLETTER, ICT
CONTENT
PLATFORMS
Online collaborative
tools

10. Blog tools
Mapping tools
Music production
Survey and forms
ICT PROJECTS AND
CONTENTS PUBLISHING
AND UPLOADING
PLATFORMS
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM PLATFORMS

11. CURATING TOOLS
WEB DESIGN PLATFORMS
WEB MANAGEMENT PLATFORMS

12. If you can program it
then it is a platform.
If you can’t, then it’s
not.
Mark