emtech 2

• The term "platform" refers to a program created by developers that can be modified or reprogrammed by outside users
• Online platforms are websites created to aid users in creating web content and cater to different kinds of information such as texts, images, and videos
• The demand in computational function and administrative facilities in computing machines gave birth to the field of platform development and creation
• FORTRAN, the first successful commercial programming language compiler, helped humans give instructions and interact with computers without altering the hardware component of the computer
• FORTRAN and its successors were operated offline or without connectivity with other computing devices
• The Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of governing protocols or rules on how software elements should communicate and interact with one another for building software applications
• Plug-in APIs are used in the user end, where different developers create applications that can be integrated or "plugged in" to a core application and/or the GUI of these applications
• Runtime Environment APIs are platforms for developing different applications, wherein programs or application codes are evaluated and compiled
• Youtube is a website dedicated to hosting video clips where users can create an account and upload videos for public and private viewing
• Flickr is a website that caters to the hosting of images, where users can create a private account to upload and categorize images as viewed privately or publicly
• Twitter is a social networking service that enables users to send and read short messages with 140 characters
• Facebook is a social networking website that requires users to register an account and create a user profile
• Google Maps APIs are commonly used to indicate the location of an establishment described on a website