This document defines common online terminology including email, wiki, VoIP, blog, online chat, social networking, social bookmarking, WWW, URL, HTML, streaming, web feed, and podcast. Email is the transmission of messages over communications networks. A wiki allows collaborative editing of content on a website by multiple users. VoIP sends voice data over the internet instead of traditional phone networks. A blog is a personal website that can be updated daily. Social networking connects individuals through online programs. Social bookmarking saves websites online for sharing. The WWW uses HTML documents linked over the internet. A URL specifies the location of a resource on the web. HTML defines the structure of web documents. Streaming transfers data as a continuous stream

1. COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIES

2. What is Email? Wiki?
Email -
Short for electronic mail, the transmission of messages
over communications networks. The messages can be notes entered from
the keyboard or electronic files stored on disk.
Wiki -
A collaborative Web site comprises the
perpetual collective work of many authors. Similar to
a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows anyone to
edit, delete or modify content that has been placed
on the Web site using a browser interface, including
the work of previous authors. In contrast, a
blog, typically authored by an individual, does not
allow visitors to change the original posted
material, only add comments to the original content.
- The term wiki refers to either the Web
site or the software used to create the site.

3. VoIP? Blog?
VoIP
Short
for Voice over Internet Protocol, a
category of hardware and software that enables
people to use the Internet as the transmission
medium for telephone calls by sending voice
data in packets using IP rather than by
traditional circuit transmissions of the PSTN.
One advantage of VoIP is that the telephone
calls over the Internet do not incur a surcharge
beyond what the user is paying for Internet
access, much in the same way that the user
doesn't pay for sending individual e-mails over
the Internet. Short for Web log, a
BLOG -
-
blog is a Web page that serves as a
publicly accessible personal journal
for an individual. Typically updated
daily, blogs often reflect the
personality of the author.
(v.) To author a Web log.

4. Online Chat? Social
Networking?
Online Chat -
Online chat may refer to any kind of communication
over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text
messages from sender to receiver. Online chat may address point-topoint communications as well as multicast communications from one
sender to many receivers and voice and video chat, or may be a
feature of a web conferencing service.
Social Networking
- The use of
internet-based social media programs to make
connections
with
friends, family, classmates, customers and
clients. Social networking can be done for social
purposes, business purposes or both. The
programs show the associations between
individuals and facilitate the acquisition of new
contacts. Examples of social networking have
included Facebook, LinkedIn, Classmates.com
and
Yelp.

5. Social Bookmarking?
WWW?
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.
And, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily
share them with friends.
WWW – (WORLD WIDE
WEB) A system of Internet servers
that
support
specially
formatted
documents.
The
documents
are
formatted in a markup language called
HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
that
supports
links
to
other
documents, as well as graphics, audio, and
video files. This means you can jump from
one document to another simply by
clicking on hot spots. Not all Internet
servers are part of the World Wide
Web.

6. HOW ABOUT URL? HTML?
URL -
Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) it is the global
address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. The
first part of the URL is called a protocol identifier and it indicates what
protocol to use, and the second part is called a resource name and it
specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is
located. The protocol identifier and the resource name are separated by a
colon and two forward slashes.
Short for HyperText Markup Language, the
authoring language used to create documents on
the World Wide Web. HTML is similar to
SGML, although it is not a strict subset.
HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web
document by using a variety of tags and
attributes.

7. STREAMING? WEB FEED?
PODCAST?
STREAMING - Streaming or media
streaming is a technique for
transferring data so that it can be
processed as a steady and continuous
stream. Streaming technologies are
becoming increasingly important with
the growth of the Internet because
most users do not have fast enough
access to download large multimedia
files quickly.
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
aggregator. A web feed is also sometimes
referred to as a syndicated feed.
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 word
is a neologism and portmanteau
derived from "broadcast" and "pod"
from the success of the iPod, as audio
podcasts are often listened to on
portable media players.