2. What is Platform?
- A platform is any hardware or software
used to host an application or service.
- An operating system and coordinating
programs that use the instruction set for a
particular processor.
3. What is Uploading?
- Uploading is the transition of a file from one
computer system to another.
- From a network user’s point of view, to upload a
file is to send it to another computer that is set
up to receive it.
4. What is Photo Sharing?
- Photo sharing websites allow users to
upload their images to share with their
online friends, or indeed the entire web.
- Most photo sharing sites are free to use
and offer plenty of handy tools.
5. - Young people in particular are teen users of
digital photography. Many teens like taking
pictures of socializing with friends and
share the images online through social
networking sites like Twitter and Facebook.
7. Flickr
❏ Flickr is perhaps the most popular photo
sharing websites around.
❏ It’s probably one of the oldest too, having
been on the go since photo sharing become
popular.
8. ❏ It allows users to join groups similar to
their interests in order to share images
and there is a big focus tagging.
9. Picasa
❏ This is Google photo sharing offering.
❏ It is easy to use for google mail subscribers and
offers many of the same things as the other sites.
❏ It also offers users the chance to upgrade their
package to have more space and editing tools in
return for a fee.
10. PhotoBucket
➢ According to some, the most popular photo sharing
site in the US, PhotoBucket is the fast becoming
popular in Europe.
➢ The site has many of the same features but also
includes instant chat options and operates closer to
the way traditional social networking websites do.
11. Instagram
❏ Instagram is perhaps the fastest growing photo sharing
websites.
❏ It is popular with Twitter and Facebook users in
particular as it follows people to upload their profiles.
❏ It works well on mobile platforms. Instagram also has
good and easy to use editing tools which makes it
popular.
13. What is Video Sharing?
★ It is almost the same with the photo
sharing though for video sharing,
videos are what are being shared, not
photos.
14. ❏ YouTube is the most popular video-sharing websites on the
internet. It is created by three former PayPal employees and
now becomes a subsidiary of Google.
❏ It makes use of Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to
display a wide variety of users generated and corporate
media such as video clips, TV clips and music videos and
other educational purpose videos.
15. ❏ YouTube accepts videos uploaded in most
container formats, including .avi, .mkv, .mp4,
.flv, .DivX, .ogg, .ogv.
❏ These include video formats such as MPEG-4,
MPEG, VOB, .WMV and even 3GP.
16. ❏ Vimeo is a U.S based video sharing website which
users can upload, share and view videos.
❏ By December 2013, Vimeo has attracted over 100
million unique visitors per month and more than 22
million registered users, following fellow video
upload sites free YouTube and Facebook.
17. ❏ Metacafe is another video sharing websites for you to post
your videos for free.
❏ In its early years, Metacafe was similar to other video
viewing websites such as YouTube or DailyMotion. But now
it has transformed to specialize in short dorm video
entertainment in the categories of movies, video games,
sports, music and TV.
18. ➢ The fifth best video sharing site that you should know is Hulu, which is
created in 2007.
➢ It is an entertainment website and it offers a variety of TV shows, movies,
originals.
➢ But the point may disappoint us is that Hulu videos are currently offered
only to users in the United States, its overseas territories and Japan.
➢ It provides video in Flash Video format, including many films and shows
that are available in 288p, 360p, 480p, and in some cases, 720p or 1080p
HD.
19. ❖ Vevo is one of the top 10 popular free video streaming, websites
in the world.
❖ It is a right place for music artist and music lovers. For music
artists, they can use this platform to promote their works; and as
for music lovers, they can find more wonderful songs here.
❖ Unfortunately, this websites is only available in Australia, Brazil,
Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Poland Spain and United States by now.
20. What is Image Hosting Platform?
❏ An image hosting service allows individuals to upload images to
an internet website.
❏ The image host will then store the image into its server, and
show the individual different types of code to allow others to
view that image.
❏ The uploader may also be allowed to specify online links to the
hosted image, in order to embed it on other websites e.g. Linking
with HTML code and with BB code.
❏ A clickable thumbnail that is linked to the full image.
