2. * Offers a variety of Internet services * Examples of services: * News * Sports * Search engine/directory * Web publishing * Reference tools * Maps * Shopping * Email * Examples of portals: * AltaVista, AOL, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, Yahoo!MSNYahoo!

3. * Contains newsworthy material * Contain stories and articles related to some of the following: * Life, money, current events, weather * Examples: * WSB-tv WSB-tv * NBC.com NBC.com

4. * Contains factual information * Government agencies provide this type of info: * Census data, tax codes, congressional budget * Others that provide this type are: * MARTA MARTA * Medicare Medicare

5. * Promotes or sells a product * Many examples

6. * Offers exciting, challenging avenues for formal and informal teaching and learning * Online training for a new skill * Online courses * Online college classes * Examples * UGA UGA * Phoenix University Phoenix University

7. * Interactive and engaging * Offer music, video, games, sports, chats, sweepstakes

8. * Describes a cause, opinion, or idea * Presents views of a group of people or organizations

9. * Short for webblog * Time-stamped articles or posts, in a diary type format * Vblog – a blog that contains video * Blogosphere – worldwide collection of blogs * Vlogosphere – all vblogs worldwide * Reflect interest, opinions and personalities of the author

10. * Allows user to create, add, modify, or delete web site content * Collect recent edits on a web page so someone can review them for accuracy * Anyone can modify a wiki * Most popular - WikipediaWikipedia

11. * Encourages members in the group to share interest, ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos with other users * Popular examples: * Facebook * MySpace (12 million visitors a day) * Media Sharing Web site – different * Allows members to share photos, music, and videos * ShutterFly, Flickr – popular sites * GoogleVideo and YouTube are example for video sharing sites

12. * Business that gathers and organizes web content and then distributes or feeds the content to subscribers for free or for a fee

13. * Private individual or family created * People publish personal web pages for a variety of reasons: * Job hunting * Share personal experiences * Family histories