Romana E. Austria 1E2 University of Santo Tomas

1. Common Online
Terminologies
Romana E. Austria
Bachelor of Secondary Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. Email
• Electronic Mail
• the transmission of
messages over
communication net
works.

3. Wiki
• Server program that
allows users to
collaborate in
forming the content
of a Web site.
• Comes from
“wikiwiki” meaning
fast in Hawaiian
language.
• The simplest wiki
programs allow users
to create and edit
content

4. Social Bookmarking
• It is tagging a website and saving it for later.
• Instead of saving them to your web browser,
you are saving them to the web.
• Because your bookmarks are online, you can
easily share them with friends.

5. HTML
• Hypertext Mark-up
Language
• A language to
specify the structure
of documents for
retrieval across the
Internet using
browser programs
of the World Wide
Web.

6. Podcast
• The word “podcasting”
is a portmanteau
combining the words
“broadcasting” and
“iPod.”
• Podcasts are digital
media files (most often
audio, but they can be
video as well), which
are produced in a
series.
• The most popular
format of a podcast is
MP3.

7. VoIP
• Voice over Internet
Protocol
• It is another way of
making phone calls,
with the difference
of making the calls
cheaper or
completely free.

8. Online Chat
• communication
over the Internet
• real-time
transmission of text
messages from
sender to receiver

9. WWW
• World Wide Web
• all the resources and
users on the Internet
that are using the
Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP).
• universe of networkaccessible
information, an
embodiment of
human knowledge.

10. Streaming
• Method of relaying
data (esp. video
and audio material)
over a computer
network as a steady
continuous stream.
• Allowing playback
to proceed while
subsequent data is
being received.

11. Blog
• a personal website
or web page on
which an individual
records opinions,
links to other sites,
etc. on a regular
basis.
• your best bet for a
voice among the
online crowd.

12. Social Networking
a website that allows
people with similar
interests to come
together and share
information, photos
and videos.
• Those who engage on
social network sites as a
personal endeavour
interact by using
various forms of media
to discuss their lives and
interests.
•

13. URL
• Uniform Resource
Locator
• a specific character
string that
constitutes a
reference to a
resource.
• URL of a web page
is displayed on top
inside an address
bar.

14. Web Feed
• a data format used
for providing users
with frequently
updated content.
• a data format used
for providing users
with frequently
updated content.

15. Sources
http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/wiki
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/e_mail.html
http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialbookmarking
101/p/aboutsocialtags.htm
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/230/whatis-a-podcast/
http://searchcio.techtarget.com/