Resumen
The article focuses on Internet revolution that has greatly affected construction of networked multimedia applications. New approaches to distributing application logic have claimed the attention of application developers. Web browsers, such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer now offer a universally available container in which to assemble and inherit rich interactive software components. Moreover, the range of today's multimedia toolkits and component technologies has expanded significantly as a result of a new industry driven by the World Wide Web's mass appeal. Major step in exploring the validity of the concept business applications approach yielded the Broadband Multimedia Demonstration Suite. The spectacular growth in popularity of the Web has spwaned something of a cottage industry centered on developing multimedia-related technologies. A distributed application called TourGuide was developed to support multimedia-enhanced collaboration over the Internet. TourGuide provides an interactive multimedia experience in which one or more users playing the role of tour guide take a group of tourists through a preselected set of Web site.