Essays on Mashup

A & F Ltd.: Integrating Learning into Mashup Implementations

I. Introduction Organizations are learning differently. Compared to a conventional model by which individuals, work groups and whole organizations used to learn new business processes, current business practice has opened up new potentials for company-wide learning enabled by ICT platforms and applications. The growing collaboration, communication and sharing learning (and fun) experiences in current business practice is, indeed, both evolutionary and revolutionary. The learning behavior of operating businesses is evolutionary by phasing out older modes of learning (e.g. formal professional development, meetings and water cooler chats) and implementing similar platforms and applications (e.g. interactive, collaborative, user-friendly wikis). Thus, by ...

1. Familiarise yourself with the various network addressing terms e.g. socket.

Socket: a socket is a combination of an IP address (where the computer is located) and a port and places it together into a single identity – a good analogy is a telephone where the actual phone connection is a combination of a given phone number and a particular extension. In computer networking, an Internet socket or network socket is an endpoint of a bidirectional inter-process communication flow across an Internet Protocol-based computer network, such as the Internet.

Subnet Mask: A subnetwork is a distinct and visible part of a single Internet Protocol wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnet_Mask

Gateway: A Gateway is a link between two ...