The document defines and describes common online terminology including email, blogs, online chat, social bookmarking, URLs, streaming, podcasts, VoIP, wikis, social networking, the World Wide Web (WWW), HTML, and web feeds. Email allows sending of text and file messages over a network. Blogs are websites where posts are arranged chronologically. Online chat provides immediate messaging. Social bookmarking involves tagging and sharing websites. URLs locate documents on the internet. Streaming delivers audio/video in real-time. Podcasts are downloadable audio broadcasts. VoIP turns internet connections into phones. Wikis allow collaborative editing. Social networks connect internet users online. The WWW consists of publicly accessible websites. HTML contains tags

1. Common Online Terminologies
Ma. Pamela S. Dequiña
Bachelor Of Secondary Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. Email
 Email or electronic mail are text messages that may
contain files, images and other attachments it is send
through a network of specified individuals or group of
individuals.

3. Blog
 A journal that is available on the web.
 Posting on a Blog are almost always arrange in
chronological order.
 The activity of updating the blog is called blogging and
someone who keeps a blog is called a blogger.

4. Online Chat
Online Chat
 This allows you to send messages back and forth
immediately to one another through the use of
internet connection
 Online chat doesn’t cause you anything extra, as long
as you have an internet connection

5. Social Bookmarking
 It is tagging a website and saving it .
 Since it is online you are able to send it to
your friends
 You can also look for other interesting sites
that other people have tag.

6. URL
 Uniform Resource Locator
 A global address of documents and other
resources on the world wide web

7. Streaming
 Streaming means listening to music or watching a
video “real time”
 There is no file to download just a continuous
stream of data

8. Podcast
 A form of audio broadcasting on the internet
 As long as you have some way to play music on your
computer you will be able to listen to Podcast.

9. VoIP
 Voice Over Internet Protocol
 It can turn a standard internet connection into a
way to place free phone calls

10. WIKI
 A Web application which allows people to add,
modify or delete content in collaboration with
others.
 It differs from a blog because the content is created
without any defined owner or leader.

11. Social Networking
 Websites function like an online community of internet
users
 Once you granted access to the social networking site you
will be able to socialize with other people

12. WWW
 World Wide Web
 Consist of all public Web sites connected to the
Internet worldwide

13. HTML
 Hyper Text Markup Language
 HTML contains HTML tags and plain text
 HTML documents are also called web pages

14. Web Feed
 A data format used for providing users with
frequently updated content
 Can help us in staying up to date with the
content of a large number of sites

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