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4. Discuss the difference among multimedia, interactive multimedia, hypertext, and hypermedia.

Multimedia is defined as the combination of different media elements such as text, pictures, sound and movie etc...

In interactive multimedia, the user or operator is able to interact with the computer directly. (Eg: computer games, interactive websites, multimedia presentations or interactive Cod’s etc..)

Hypertext is basically the same as regular text - it can be stored, read, searched, or edited - with an important exception: hypertext is text with pointers to other text. The browsers let you deal with the pointers in a transparent way -- select the pointer, and you are presented with the text that is pointed to.

Hypermedia is a super set of hypertext. Hypermedia documents contain links not only to other pieces of text, but also to other forms of media - sounds, images, and movies. Images themselves can be selected to link to sounds or documents. This means that browsers might not display a text file, but might display images or sound or animations. Hypermedia simply combines hypertext and multimedia.

5.Your boss wants you to create a hypermedia system for Web visitors to find technical support information about your company. What are some of the implications in creating this system? Should you hand -build the links or use an automatic indexing system? Why?

Since the internet market is constantly evolving, a company possessing a hypermedia system can elevate the accessibility power to its customer respectively.  Hypermedia system benefits a company in term of advertising, marketing strategies, and improves the overall core business as well. The reason is company can utilize it’s to tailors customer needs and wants by providing hyperlink that are most relevant to their customer. In my opinion, I will prefer using automatic indexing system which are more cost effectiveness and efficiency than the manually hand build indexing. Besides that, most of the time a highly structure hypermedia system not developed by one indexer only, it should require more indexer to complete it. Therefore, automatic indexing system will be more appropriate compare to the manually indexing due to the inconsistency of trained indexers may affect the indexing outcome.