The document defines and describes various online terminologies, including email, wikis, social bookmarking, HTML, podcasts, VoIP, online chat, the World Wide Web, streaming media, blogs, social networks, URLs, and web feeds. Email allows digital messaging over the internet. Wikis enable collaborative editing online. Social bookmarking services organize and share bookmarks. HTML is the language used for web pages. Podcasts distribute audio and video files. VoIP uses the internet for phone calls. Online chat provides real-time text messaging. The World Wide Web supports linked documents. Streaming delivers continuous multimedia. Blogs are personal websites. Social networks connect users. URLs uniquely locate files. Web feeds update content.
2. -“Electronic Mail”
-Email is a method of exchanging digital messages
from an author to one or more recipients
-Contains 3 components Message Envelope, Message
Header, and Message body
-Needs Internet Connection
3. -Wiki is usually a web application which allows
people to add, modify, or delete content in
collaboration with others
-”Ward Cunningham” inventor of the wiki
-originally described it as “the simplest online
database that could possibly work”
4. -Social Bookmarking is a centralized online
service which enables users to
add, annotate, edit and share bookmarks of web
documents
-Tagging a feature of social bookmarking systems
5. -HTML stands for “Hyper Text Markup
Language”
-Main markup language for creating
web pages and other information
that can be displayed in a web
browser
6. -Podcast / Netcast
-Consist of audio, video, PDF or ePub
files
- As audio podcasts are often listened
to on portable media players
7. -VoIP stands for “Voice over
Internet Protocol”
-People use the internet as
transmission medium for
telephone calls by sending
voice data in packets using
IP
8. -Any kind of communication over the internet
that offers a real time transmission of text
messages from sender to receiver.
9. -WWW stands for “ World Wide
Web”
-Supports links to other documents
- Formatted through HTML
10. -A multimedia that is constantly
received by and presented to an end
user.
11. -A web site on which someone writes
about personal opinions and
experiences
-Journals, reflections and comments
12. -A social made up of set of social actors and a set of
the dyadic ties between actors
-Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and others
13. -URL stands for “Uniform Resource
Locator”
-A unique address for a file on the
internet
