This document defines and describes various online communication technologies and web-based applications including email, VoIP, blogs, wikis, online chat, social networking, the World Wide Web, URLs, HTML, streaming, web feeds, podcasts, and social bookmarking. Definitions are provided for each term along with brief explanations of their functions and purposes. A list of reference links is also included for additional information on each technology.

1. Prepared by:
Kristine Olive B. Caravana – 1E2
University of Santo Tomas
Espana, Manila
College of Education

2.  Email
 VoIP
 Blog
 Wiki
 Online Chat
 Social Networking
 WWW
 URL
 HTML
 Streaming
 Web Feed
 Podcast
 Social Bookmarking

5. • Blog
• A website containing a write
r's or group of writers' own
experiences, observations, o
pinions,
etc.,and often having images
and links to other websites.
• A post or an entry in a
website.

6. • Wiki
• A collaborative Web
site comprises the perpetual
collective work of many
authors.
• The term wiki refers to either
the Web site or
the software used to create the
site.

7. • Online Chat
• Text based communication
in real time between two
users over a network or the
internet.
• the exchange of
messages in an internet or ot
her network
chatroom.

8. • Social
Networking
• an online service, platform, or
site that focuses on facilitating
the building of social
networks or social relations
among people.

9. • WWW
• World Wide Web
• A system of
interlinked hypertext docum
ents accessed via
the Internet.
• Contains text, images,
videos, and
other multimedia and
navigate between them via
hyperlinks.

11. • HTML
• Hypertext Markup
Language
• It is the set
of markup symbols or codes
inserted in a file intended
for display on a World Wide
Web browser page.

12. • Streaming
• Data streaming, commonly
seen in the forms of audio
and video streaming, is
when a multimedia file can
be played back without
being completely
downloaded first.

14. • Podcasts
• Refer to any audio, video or
digital media that is
distributed to any computing
device on a regular or
demand basis.
• The word podcast is similar
to ‘broadcast’ in that the
term can refer to the content
itself or to the method used
to distribute the content.

16.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
 http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VoIP.html
 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blog
 http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/wiki.html
 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chat
 http://mashable.com/category/social-networking/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
 http://contests.about.com/od/uz/g/urldefinition.htm
 http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/HTML
 http://www.techterms.com/definition/streaming
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed
 http://www.csus.edu/irt/newsletter/issue/2/9.stm
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking