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Nature and Purposes of Online Platforms and Applications 2

Online platforms are digital services that facilitate interactions between distinct but interdependent users over the internet, encompassing various services like marketplaces, social media, and cloud computing. The document categorizes online platforms based on their services, providing examples such as project management tools, social media networks, and content management systems. It highlights the diverse functionalities of these platforms, including presentation, file management, and web page creation.

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Nature and Purposes of Online Platforms and Applications 2

Online platforms are digital services that facilitate interactions between distinct but interdependent users over the internet, encompassing various services like marketplaces, social media, and cloud computing. The document categorizes online platforms based on their services, providing examples such as project management tools, social media networks, and content management systems. It highlights the diverse functionalities of these platforms, including presentation, file management, and web page creation.

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The Nature and Purposes

of Online Platforms and


Applications
An online platform refers to a digital service that
enables interactions between two or more sets of
users who are distinct but interdependent and use
the service to communicate via the internet. The
phrase “online platform” is a broad term used to
refer to various internet services such as
marketplaces, search engines, social media, etc.

ONLINE PLATFORM
Nature of Online
Platforms
• The nature of online platforms introduced herein is
categorized based on the services that they
provide.
Examples of Presentation /
Visualization

Zoho – an online project Mind Meister – an online


SlideShare – to build mind-mapping tool that
management app that
Prezi – helping to reinvent quickly from concise, well lets you capture, develop
helps you plan your work
the art of presentation presented content from and share ideas visually
and keep track of your
top experts
progress

1. Presentation / Visualization
communicates information clearly and efficiently via statistical
graphics, plots and information graphics
the practice of using a network of
remote servers

2. Cloud
hosted on the internet to store,
Computi manage, and process data, rather
ng than a local server or a personal
computer
• Examples of Cloud Computing:
• Google Drive – keep all work in one
secure place with online file storage
• Dropbox – keeps your files safe, synced,
and easy to share
3. Social Media

are computer-mediated
Examples of Social Media tools that allow people,
• Twiter – online social networking companies and other
service that enables users to send organizations to create,
and read short 140- character share, or exchange
messages called “tweets”.
• Facebook· – is for-profit information, career
corporation and online social interests, ideas, and
networking service pictures/videos in virtual
communities and networks
4. Web Page Creation

• encompasses a number of
important elements including
color, layout, and overall
graphical appearance.
– Examples Web Page Creation
• Wix -a cloud-based web
development platform
that allows users to create
HTML5 websites and
mobile sites through the
use of their online drag
and drop tools.
• Weebly – a web-hosting
service featuring a drag
and-drop website builder
5. File Management
• is the storing, naming, sorting
and handling computer files
– Examples of File Management
• Zamzar – web application to
convert files
• word2pdf – convert Word files
to PDF (Portable Document
Format) with this online tool
6. Mapping
• a transformation
taking the points of
one space into the
points of the same or
another space.
– Examples of
Mapping
• Google Maps – a
desktop web
mapping service
developed by
Google
7. Content
Management System
(CMS)

• is a computer application
(sometimes online or browser
based) that allows you to publish,
edit and manipulate, organize and
delete web content. CMS is used in
blogs, news websites, and
shopping.
– Blogs- is a discussion or
informational website published
on the web consisting of
discrete, often informal diary-
style text entries ("posts").
Posts are typically displayed in
reverse chronological order, so
that the most recent post
appears first, at the top of the
web page
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