This document defines and describes common online terminology including: - Email is a system for sending and receiving electronic text messages between computers via a network. Blogs allow individuals to immediately post information to a website for sharing thoughts and information. Online chat enables text-based communication between individuals or groups in real-time. Social bookmarking services allow users to save, annotate, and share bookmarks of web pages. - A URL is an internet address that identifies resources on the web or through file transfer. Streaming delivers audio and video files that can be listened to or watched online as they download. Podcasts are episodic series of audio or video files that are subscribed to for download or streaming. VoIP uses the internet to allow voice

1. ONLINE TERMINOLOGIES

2. Email
• Electronic mail
• It is a system used for sending and
receiving messages through a network
• Distributing stored messages from a
computer to another computer user via
network.
• Originally developed for simple text
messages

3. Blog
• Allows someone to post information to a
website immediately
• Usually a work of a single
individual, occasionally a small group.
• Basically, a page to put together one’s
own thoughts, expressions or reliable
information

4. Online chat
• Text-based communication via
computer
• May be in form of group chats or one on
one.
• Connect people online.

5. Social bookmarking
• A social bookmarking service is a
centralized online service which enables
users to add, annotate, edit, and
share bookmarks of web documents
• users save links to web pages that they
want to remember and/or share.
• social bookmarking does not save
the resources themselves
(Wikipedia.org)

6. URL
• Uniform Resource Location
• Internet Address
• Located on top inside of the address
bar
• Commonly used for web pages
(http:), but can also be used for file
transfer (ftp:)

7. streaming
• Video and audio in the internet
• Received by a user in a form of multi-media
in the internet where you can download it
physically and will be automatically be
saved in the computer
• Provides files which you will be able to
listen or watch

8. podcast
• Net cast
• A digital medium consisting of an episodic
series of audio, video, or PDF subscribed
to and downloaded through web
syndication or streamed online to a
computer or mobile device.
(wikipedia.org)

9. VoIP
• Voice over internet protocol
• basically a telephone connection over the
Internet. The data is sent digitally, using the
Internet Protocol (IP) instead of analog telephone
lines
• allows people to talk to one another longdistance and around the world without having to
pay long distance or international phone charges.
(techterms.com)

10. wiki
• enables communities to write documents
collaboratively, using a simple markup
language and a web browser
• usually a web application which allows people
to add, modify, or delete content
in collaboration with others.
(wikipedia.org)

11. Social networking
• focuses on facilitating the building of social
relations among people
• Sharing of likes and interest
• consists of a representation of each user
(often a profile), his/her social links, and a
variety of additional services.
(mashable.com)

12. www
• World wide web
• a system of interlinked hypertext documents
accessed via the Internet
• With a web browser, one can view web
pages that may contain
text, images, videos, and other
multimedia and navigate between them
via hyperlinks.
(wikipedia.org)

13. html
• Hypertext Mark up Language
• the main mark up language for creating web
pages and other information that can be
displayed in a web browser.
• Consists of “tags” that are enclosed with a
bracket.
(wikipedia.org)

14. Web feed
• Or news feed
• A data format used for providing users with
frequently updated content
• The kinds of content delivered by a web feed
are typically HTML (webpage content) or links
to webpages and other kinds of digital media.
(wikipedia.org)