COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIES

Ma. Fatima B. TarunBSE

University of Santo Tomas

E-MAIL• electronic mail• It is an exchange of

digital messages from a user to another.

• It makes use of the internet or computer networks.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.o

rg/wiki/Email

WIKI• usually a web

application that allows users to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.o

rg/wiki/wiki

SOCIAL NETWORKING• makes use of

websites to mingle or interact with other users around the world.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_netwo

rk

HTML• Hypertext Markup

Language• a set of markup

symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a world wide web browser page.

Reference: http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definiti

on/HTML

VOIP• provisioning of

communications services over the public internet.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_I

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BLOG• web log• a journal written on

line and accessible to users of the internet

Reference: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/b

log?s=t

ONLINE CHAT• refers to any kind

of communication over the internet in real time through online text messages sent from a social network.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING• a service which

allows the users to modify, comment on, and share bookmarks of web documents.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Book

marking

URL• Uniform Resource Locator

• the standard address of web sites and documents that can be accessed through the internet and intranet.

Reference: http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/u/

url.htm

WWW• World Wide Web• a system of

hyperlinked web sites that can be accessed through the internet.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_

Web

STREAMING• playing immediately

an audio or video content sent from the internet in compressed form, rather that downloading the file.

Reference: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/s

treaming-media

WEB FEED• a data format used

for providing users with frequently updated content.

• a document whose discrete contents include links to the source.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.o

rg/wiki/Web_feed

PODCAST• a multimedia digital

file available on the internet that can be downloaded to portable media players, computers and other gadgets.

Reference: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_e

nglish/podcast