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Web conferencing is used to conduct live meetings or presentations over the Internet. In a meeting, two or more people come together for the purpose of discussing a (usually predetermined topic such as business or community event planning often in a formal setting Presentation is the process of showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks In a web conference, each participant sits at his or her own computer and is connected to other participants via the internet. A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. This can be either a downloaded application on each of the attendees computers or a web-based application where the attendees will simply enter a URL (website address) to enter the conference. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it

A webinar is a specific type of web conference. It is typically one-way, from the speaker to the audience with limited audience interaction, such as in a webcast. A webcast is a media file distributed over the Internet using Streaming media technology A webinar can be very collaborative and include polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter. In some cases, the presenter may speak over a standard telephone line, pointing out information being presented on screen and the audience can respond over their own telephones, preferably a speaker phone. There are web conferencing technologies on the market that have incorporated the use of VoIP audio technology, to allow for a truly web-based communication.

In the early years of the Internet, the terms "web conferencing" was often used to describe a group discussion in a message board and therefore not live. Debate ( American English) or debating ( British English) is a formal method of interactive and position representational Argument. An, or message board, is a Bulletin board system in the form of a discussion site The term has evolved to refer specifically to live or "synchronous" meetings. Synchronous conferencing is the formal term used in Science, in particular in Computer-mediated communication, collaboration and learning, to

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Features

Other typical features of a web conference include:

Web conferencing is often sold as a service, hosted on a web server controlled by the vendor, either on a usage basis (cost per user per minute) or for a fixed fee (cost per "seat"). The term web server can mean one of two things A Computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from web clients which are Some vendors make their conferencing software available as a licensed product, allowing organizations that make heavy use of conferencing to install the software on their own servers. Some web conferencing software is distributed free for hosting on the MC's server. There is also software available that is installed on the MC's computer and does not require server configuration software.

An important capability of web conferencing software is application sharing, the ability for one party in the conference to share an application (such as a web browser, spread sheet, etc. Application Sharing is an element of Remote access, falling under the Collaborative software umbrella that enables two or more users to access a shared application ) from their desk top with every one else in the meeting and pass the control of the application to someone else in the meeting.

History

Real-time text chat facilities such as IRC appeared early in the internet's history. Synchronous conferencing is the formal term used in Science, in particular in Computer-mediated communication, collaboration and learning, to Web-based chat and instant messaging software appeared in the mid-1990s. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 In the late 1990s, the first true web conferencing capability became available and dozens of other web conferencing venues followed thereafter.

In May 1998 Eric R. Korb [1] was first to use the term "webinar "(web-seminar) to brand the online meeting service for his company ComLinx, LLC. Korb received a registered trademark (Serial Number 75478683) by the USPTO on April 18, 2000. A trademark or trade mark, represented by the symbols ™ and ®, or mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual Korb successfully defended the mark several times, but widespread use of the mark without his permission flourished throughout the internet making it very difficult to monitor and defend. Korb eventually transferred ownership of the mark when the dot. com boom failed and ComLinx was forced to shut down in 2001 due to lack of funding. The mark has subsequently been abandoned.

The first commercial 100% computer base web-conference (webinar) product called StarLive was delivered by Starlight Networks in 1997 (acquired by Picturetel in 1998). StarLive combined multicast video (MPEG1 on Intranets along with RealVideo on the Internet with slides and chat and support tens of thousands of simulataneous users across different countries. This type of Web conference became mainstream a few years later mainly thanks to WebEx (acquired by Cisco).

Standards

Web conferencing technologies were not standardized for many years, a significant factor in the lack of interoperability, platform dependence, security issues, cost and market segmentation. In 2003, the IETF established a working group to establish a standard for Web conferencing, called "Centralized Conferencing (xcon)" [2]. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Working Group can mean Working group, an interdisciplinary group of researchers or Working Group (dogs, kennel club designation for Mechanisms for privacy and security are important requirements for the resulting protocols.

The deliverables of xcon, listed as part of their charter include creating:

CONFiance is an implementation of the XCON framework and BFCP licensed under the GPL and Academic Free License. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Academic Free License (AFL is a Permissive free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E

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References

  1. ^ Eric R. Korb
  2. ^ Centralized Conferencing (xcon)
Collaborative software (also referred to as groupware or workgroup support systems) is software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their A webcast is a media file distributed over the Internet using Streaming media technology
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