ONLINE TERMINOLOGIES

Email

• Electronic mail• It is a system used for sending and

receiving messages through a network• Distributing stored messages from a

computer to another computer user via network.

• Originally developed for simple text messages

Blog

• Allows someone to post information to a website immediately

• Usually a work of a single individual, occasionally a small group.

• Basically, a page to put together one’s own thoughts, expressions or reliable information

Online chat

• Text-based communication via computer• May be in form of group chats or one on

one.• Connect people online.

Social bookmarking

• A social bookmarking service is a centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents

• users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share.

• social bookmarking does not save the resources themselves

(Wikipedia.org)

URL

• Uniform Resource Location• Internet Address• Located on top inside of the address

bar• Commonly used for web pages (http:),

but can also be used for file transfer (ftp:)

streaming

• Video and audio in the internet• Received by a user in a form of multi-media

in the internet where you can download it physically and will be automatically be saved in the computer

• Provides files which you will be able to listen or watch

podcast

• Net cast • A digital medium consisting of an episodic

series of audio, video, or PDF subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device. (wikipedia.org)

VoIP

• Voice over internet protocol• basically a telephone connection over the

Internet. The data is sent digitally, using the Internet Protocol (IP) instead of analog telephone lines

• allows people to talk to one another long-distance and around the world without having to pay long distance or international phone charges.

(techterms.com)

wiki

• enables communities to write documents collaboratively, using a simple markup language and a web browser

• usually a web application which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others.

(wikipedia.org)

Social networking

• focuses on facilitating the building of social relations among people

• Sharing of likes and interest• consists of a representation of each user

(often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services.

(mashable.com)

www

• World wide web• a system of interlinked hypertext documents

accessed via the Internet• With a web browser, one can view web

pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

(wikipedia.org)

html

• Hypertext Mark up Language• the main mark up language for creating web

pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

• Consists of “tags” that are enclosed with a bracket.

(wikipedia.org)

Web feed

• Or news feed• A data format used for providing users with

frequently updated content• The kinds of content delivered by a web feed

are typically HTML (webpage content) or links to webpages and other kinds of digital media.

(wikipedia.org)