This document defines common online terminology such as email, wikis, social bookmarking, HTML, podcasts, VoIP, online chat, the World Wide Web, streaming, social networking, URLs, blogs, and web feeds. Email allows electronic messaging between computer users via networks. Wikis are online encyclopedias that can be edited by volunteers, like Wikipedia. Social bookmarking enables users to bookmark and share web documents. HTML is the main language used to create web pages. Podcasts are episodic audio or video files that can be subscribed to. VoIP delivers voice calls over the internet.

1. COMMON ONLINE
TERMINOLOGIES
Villamor, Stephanie O.
Bachelor of Secondary Education
Pontifical and Royal
University of Santo Tomas
The Catholic University of the
Philippines

2. EMAIL
Messages are distributed by electronic
means from one computer user to one or
more recipients via a network.
 Examples:
Yahoomail
Gmail
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3. WIKI
Wikipedia is a free Internet
encyclopedia edited by millions
of volunteers around the world
 It is supported by non-profit Wikimedia
Foundation
 It is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry
Sanger in January 15, 2001
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4. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

A social bookmarking service is a
centralized online service which enables
users to add, annotate, edit, and
share bookmarks of web documents.

5. HTML
HTML means HyperText Markup
Language
 It is the main markup language for
creating web pages and other information
that can be displayed in a web browser.
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6. PODCAST
A podcast or netcast is a digital
medium consisting of an episodic series
of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed
to and downloaded through web syndication or
streamed online to a computer or mobile
device.
 The term "podcasting" was first mentioned by
Ben Hammersley in The Guardian newspaper
in February 2004. It is a combination of iPod
and broadcasting.
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7. EXAMPLES OF PODCASTS
VIDEO
PODCAST
S
PODCAST
NOVELS
ENHANCE
D
PODCAST
S

8. VOIP

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a
methodology and group of technologies for
the delivery of voice communications and
multimedia sessions over Internet
Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.

9. ONLINE CHAT
Online chat refers to any kind of
communication over the Internet that offers
a real-time transmission of text messages
from sender to receiver.
 Examples:

Skype
Google Talk

10. WWW

The World Wide Web (abbreviated
as WWW or W3, commonly known as the
web) is a system of interlinked hypertext
documents accessed via the Internet.

11. STREAMING
Streaming technology allows you to transmit
audio, video and other multimedia over the
Internet.
 Examples:
Mobile Video Streaming
Music Streaming
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12. SOCIAL NETWORKING

A social networking service is an online
service, platform, or site that focuses on
facilitating the building of social networks that
share interests, activities, backgrounds, or
real-life connections.

13. URL
A uniform resource locator is a specific
character string that constitutes a reference
to a resource. In most web browsers, the
URL of a web page is displayed on top inside
an address bar
 It was standardized in 1994 by Tim BernersLee and the URI working group of
the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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14. BLOG
A blog is a discussion or informational site
published on the World Wide Web and
consisting of discrete entries ("posts")
typically displayed in reverse chronological
order
 The term "blog", was coined by Peter
Merholz


15. WEB FEED
A web feed (or news feed) is a data format
used for providing users with frequently
updated content. Content
distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby
allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a
collection of web feeds accessible in one
spot is known as aggregation, which is
performed by an agrregator.
 A web feed is also sometimes referred to as
a syndicated feed.
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16. REFERENCES
https://www.google.com.ph/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=K
vMCU9npL2PiAfi1oCwCw#q=email+definition
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarki
ng
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_IP
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17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
 http://www.videodesk.net/Streaming.aspx
 http://mashable.com/category/socialnetworking/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource
_locator
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed
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