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RSS is a family of web feed formats. The initialism "RSS" is variously used to refer to the following standards:

Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0)
RSS formats are specified in XML (a generic specification for data formats). RSS delivers its information as an XML file called an "RSS feed", "webfeed", "RSS stream", or "RSS channel".
RSS is a simple XML-based system that allows users to subscribe to their favorite websites. Using RSS, webmasters can put their content into a standardized format, which can be viewed and organized through RSS-aware software or automatically conveyed as new content on another website.
A program known as a feed reader or aggregator can check a list of feeds on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that it finds. It is common to find web feeds on major websites and many smaller ones. Some websites let people choose between RSS or Atom formatted web feeds; others offer only RSS or only Atom.
On Web pages, web feeds (RSS or Atom) are typically linked with the word "Subscribe", an orange rectangle, , or with the letters or . Many news aggregators such as My Yahoo![1] publish subscription buttons for use on Web pages to simplify the process of adding news feeds.
On the bottom of the home page of the NY Times , you can subscribe to the RSS feed to be contacted as soon as there are news. It can be very usefull if you don't have time to check often if there are some news which interest you, especially if you use Netvibes.

Go to jail!

Cybercrime is a term used broadly to describe criminal activity in which computers or networks are a tool, a target, or a place of criminal activity. These categories are not exclusive and many activities can be characterized as falling in one or more categories.

Although the term cybercrime is usually restricted to describing criminal activity in which the computer or network is an essential part of the crime. This term is also used to include traditional crimes in which computers or networks are used to enalbe the illicit activity.

Examples of cybercrime in which the computer or network is a tool of the criminal activity include spamming and certain intellectual property and criminal copyright crimes, particularly those facilitated through peer-to-peer networks.
Examples of cybercrime in which the computer or network is a target of criminal activity include defeating access controls (unauthorized access) , malicious code, and denial-of-service attacks.
Examples of cybercrime in which the computer or network is a place of criminal activity include theft of service (in particular, telecom fraud) and certain financial frauds.
Examples of common (Anti-social engineering) crimes facilitated through the use of computers or networks include Nigerian 419 frauds, identity theft, child pornography, online gambling, securities fraud, etc.

Another way to define cybercrime is simply as criminal activity involving the information technology infrastructure, including illegal access (unauthorized access), illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from or within a computer system), data interference (unauthorized damaging, deletion, deterioration, alteration or suppression of computer data), systems interference (interfering with the functioning of a computer system by inputting, transmitting, damaging, deleting, deteriorating, altering or suppressing computer data), misuse of devices, forgery (ID theft), and electronic fraud.

All of us are victims of cybercrime with spam. 75% of the exchanged mails in the world are spams: it is so huge! Hopefully, it is the only way I have been reached by cybercrime. But I could have bad experience because of cybercrime on my bank account on line. There are so many examples of it. When I check my bank account there is often a message warning us of current cybercrime.
01Net published an article explaining how some people used the pishing to extract personal codes.

It’s difficult to protect ourselves against these practices. But the first thing to do is not to open mails from people we don’t know or with strange names. An other way to protect ourselves is to use secured websites for risky operations, for example when you buy something on the internet, use famous websites as Amazon.

Billions videos for YOU

YouTube is the leader of the world of the free videos sharing on line. 30.5 million people come every month on this webwite, which ranks it at the 10th place of the Alexa ranking.
What’s its history? How Youtube.com has become so popular?
Three formers employees of Playpal, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim founded it February 2005. The creators offered the public a preview of the site in May 2005, and six months later, YouTube made its official debut. On October 9, 2006 it was announced that the company will be purchased by Google for US$ 1.65 billion in stock, which will be Google's biggest purchase to date. The purchase agreement between Google and YouTube came after YouTube presented three agreements with media companies in an attempt to escape the threat of copyright-infringement lawsuits. YouTube will continue to operate independently, and the company's 67 employees and its co-founders will continue working within the company.[
The wide variety of site content includes movie and TV clips and music videos as well as amateur content such as videoblogging. This diversity explains partly the success of YouTube. You can find so many things on it that you remember it every time you want to search something. But I think the main explaination of its success is the easiness to use it. Users may submit videos in several common-file formats (such as .mpeg and .avi). YouTube automatically converts them to Flash Video (with extension .flv) and makes them available for online viewing. Flash Video is a popular video format among large hosting sites due to its wide compatibility. Moreover, the fact you can put video on your blog from YouTube is an other key of its success. Indeed, there are more and more blogs, so more and more people want to make it attractive thanks to video.
In the future?
YouTube may be used by companies to reach consumers, either through video advertising either through analysis of the use of the Internet of particular videos. I mean as companies use internet buzz to spread advertising through funny videos, they could download them on YouTube to make it watch by more consumers. For example, Bic is launching an advertising campaign whose niche is teenagers. So they decided to use the web to spread funny videos. We could imagine they put it on YouTube. Second, on the Internet many statistics about webusers behavior are available. Companies can make a first launch of a music clip for example in order to analyse how to potential consumers could appreciate it.

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Develop qualities and enjoy the Internet!

To get good in professional activity, you might develop personal qualities that will help you to be efficient: generosity, patience, discipline, insight, perseverance, comprehension.

If you think about it, you’ll discover that every day you improve these qualities on the Internet through offers and uses.

Generosity:

the main business model on the internet is based on free use. For example, if you want to listen to old music, you can go on Nostalgie radio. If you look for informations about new movies, you can go find them on allocine for instance. If you don't know what to cook for diner, you can look for a recipie on marmiton. You want to read daily news, go on the New York Times website. All these services are delivered for free. So in that sense, we can say that these website are generous, or at least they are generous toward users, since most of them get money by advertising.

Patience:

I think this quality is especially tested by users. Indeed, when you move on the internet, you are often confronted to technical problems ( you don't have the right program, the page is download to slowly...) and to problems from organization on the Internet. I mean that most of the website earn money thanks to advertising, and some forms of ad are really awkward as pop-up or expand banners. For instance, if you go on allocine, you won't reach the home page directly, you'll have an ad for a new movie, at least today, October 11th.

Discipline:

once again, I think that this quality is improved y user when they participate to forum or wiki. If you search informations about Linux, you have the opportunity to go on forum to discuss with people who know well the product. Imagine if someone connect on this forum and explain wrong things "just for fun"... The credibility and the interest of the forum are down. It's the same on wikipedia: giving a false definition you will induce someone in the error.

Insight:

How you use the Internet? Do you use all the opportunities? You should use the Internet in order to get benefits for you. For instance, you are interested on a particular subject? search on the web more informations, sign up for receiving podcats on this particular subject. You are passionated by flowers and gardens, sign up on this website to listen podcasts.

Perseverance:

There are so many websites that it's very difficult to find quickly good informations, or THE useful website. When you look for more informations about e-learning on Google, you find 268,000,000 answers. Even if answers are ranked, you have to be perseverance to find the adequate answer.

Comprehension:

It is the summary of the five quality above. You use the internet well when you understand it.

Discover the large scape of the Web!

The Internet offers many ways to learn English. I think that good practice is either sign up for podcasts in English, either watch English TV programs, CNN news for instance. It doesn't take you more time than usually. Find a program or podcast that interest you, on a subject on which you often search informations in French. Do the same work in english website if possible, and you'll progress in understanding written and spoken english.