COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIESMeljohn Henry M. Abenoja

University of Santo Tomas

References:

dictionary.reference.com/ www.merriam-webster.com www.thefreedictionary.com www.wikipedia.com

Electronic Mail (email)

Used for easier mailing through the internet. (e.g., Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, etc.)

Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks.

Some mails have instant messaging, but both recipients are required to be online. (e.g., Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, Viber, etc.)

Blog A blog (a truncation of the expression web log) is a

discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first).

Blog has it’s writing styles or you can make topics out of:Areas•Arts•Business•Entertainment•Environment•Fashion•Medicine•Politics•Science•Sports•Technology•Weather•World

Online Chat

Online chats are application in which we need the use of internet. Like I said earlier, we need both recipients to be online for them to chat. If one of them is not online, you could leave a message to a desired person.

Some applications are said to be dangerous depending on it’s usage.

Social Bookmarking

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

URL Also known as the Uniform Resource Locator or also known

as web address, particularly when used with HTTP In most web browsers, the URL of a web page is displayed

on top inside an address bar. An example of a typical URL would be "http://en.example.org/wiki/Main_Page"

Streaming

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. Its verb form, "to stream", refers to the process of delivering media in this manner; the term refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself.

Podcast A podcast or netcast is a digital medium consisting of an

episodic series of audio, video, subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The word is a neologism and portmanteau derived from "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of the iPod, as audio podcasts are often listened to

on portable media players.

VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a methodology

and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. Other terms commonly associated with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephony, IP communications, and broadband phone service.

Wiki

Wiki (pronounced as [‘witi] or [‘viti]) in Hawaiian word, means fast or quick. So we get the point on how they named Wikipedia, wikiquestions, wikisearch etc.

Wiki is an application in the Internet, in which we can take knowledge management, note-takings, etc. in just one click.

Social Networking

A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.

World wide web(WWW.) The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3, commonly known as the web) is 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.

HTMLHTML or HyperText Markup Language is the main mark-up language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

The purpose of a web browser is to read HTML documents and compose them into visible or audible web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page.

Web FeedA web feed lets

websites continuously "feed" you notices of their new content. RSS is simply a type of web feed.

A web feed (or news feed) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it.