Comparison and Contrast the Nuances

Varied Online Platforms

Empowerment Technologies
 What is online platform?
Online Platform is a structure or a place that uses
internet that can be used by people for different
purposes. Such as for communication, educational, and
business purposes

Example: Facebook, Lazada, Skype and etc.

Identify which of the following icons
are considered as online platforms
 What are the different online platforms?
There are nine (9) different online platforms and each of them has their own
use and effectiveness :
• Assistive Media
• Collaborative Platform
• Convergent Technologies
• Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
• Mobile Media
• Online Systems
• Social Media
• Web 2.o
• Web 3.o
 Assistive Media
This platform is created to help people with disabilities
access computers from the word itself “assistive”, they
guide individuals with disability like blind people by using
audio recording of the literary works.
 Collaborative Platform
This platform is categorized as a business
software, ideal platform for a business-
oriented persons sharing the same kind of
interests.
Examples:
emails, personal and group calendars, VoIP
services, video meeting, collaborative
documents and message notes.
 Convergent Technologies
Deals with the technologies converging or coming
together to form another technology.
Example: a phone with alarm, calculator, camera, music,
video, internet, etc.
 Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

are digital forms of communication. This platform

includes any communication device or applications to
help people gather information and easily communicate
by means of cellular phones, computer network and
hardware and software, blogging and email.
 Mobile Media
talks about media devices such as mobile phones as the
primary source of portable media from which we could get
information and communicate to one another easily.
Nowadays, smartphones are the most used devices for
mobile media because of its features and it is handy for the
users.
 Online Systems
are online versions of information systems for sharing,
managing, gathering of data and communications. This
information system is online-based, we have to access to
the internet in order to use this system.
 Social Media
gathers people to share information, interest and
pictures in virtual community. It allows people to interact
with each other and the best example is “Facebook”. 
 Web 2.0
is a dynamic web and a user-generated platform. It has
six key features (Folksonomy, Rich User Experience, User
as a Contributor, Long Tail, User Participation, Basic Trust,
Dispersion) that allows users to have a better experience
and also interact with other people, the user is able to
see a website differently than others like in the social
networking sites, blogs and video sharing sites.
 Web 3.0
also known as the ” Intelligent Web” is created more personalized
than the Web 2.0. Web 3.0 is like a personal assistant to users since
it provides most of the needs of the users, by simply clicking and
typing of words the Web 3.0 will do its task and provide results
immediately. Although it is an intelligent web, there are still several
problems in this web that is why it is not fully known or accessible.
Examples of Web 3.0 applications are Wolfram Alpha and 
Apple’s Siri, which can summarise large amounts of information
into knowledge and useful actions for people. 
 Generalization:
Even though this online platforms are different, they still
share the same goal and that is to help individuals gather
information, communicate and interact with each other
for a better living.