Common online terminologies are defined and explained. Email refers to electronic mail that allows digital messages to be exchanged over the internet or networks. Blogs are websites that display posts in reverse chronological order. Online chat refers to real-time text message transmission between users. Social bookmarking enables users to add, annotate, and share bookmarks online. Uniform resource locators (URLs) specify the location of resources on the internet. Streaming media delivers audio and video content continuously as it is received. Podcasts are downloadable episodic digital audio files. Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) delivers voice calls over IP networks like the internet. Wikis are websites that allow users to collaboratively add, modify, and delete content.

1. COMMON
ONLINE
TERMINOLOGIE
S
CHARLOTTE
POLICARPIO
BACHELOR
OF
SECONDARY
EDUCATION
PONTIFICAL
AND ROYAL
UNIVERSITY
OF SANTO
TOMAS

2. EMAIL
“ Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as
email or email since ca. 1993, is a method of exchanging digital
messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern
email operates across the internet or other compute
networks. Some early email systems required that the author
and the recipient both be online at the same time, in
common with instant
messaging,”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
BLOG
 “ A blog
(a truncation of the expression web log) 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 most recent
post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the work
of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and

3. 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. Chat messages
are generally short in order to enable other participants to
respond quickly,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat
SOCIAL
BOOKMARKING
“ A social bookmarking service is
a centralized online
service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and
share bookmarks of web documents,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

4. URL
“ A uniform resource locator , abbreviated URL (also known
as web address, particularly when used with HTTP), 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. An example of a
typical URL would
be http://en.example.org/wiki/Main_Page ," ,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL
STREAMING
“ Streaming media is
multimedia that is constantly received
by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a
provider. Its verb form, "to stream", refers to the process of
delivering media in this manner; the term refers to the
delivery method of the medium rather than the medium
itself,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media

5. 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,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
V O IP
 “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. Other terms
commonly associated with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet
telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband
telephony, IP communications, and broadband phone

6. W IKI
 “ A w iki
is usually a web application which allows people to add,
modify, or delete content in collaboration with others. Text is
usually written using a simplified mark-up language or a rich-text
editor. While a wiki is a type of content management system, it
differs from a blog or most other such systems in that the content
is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have
little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to
the needs of the users,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
SOCIAL
NETWORKING
 “ A social networking service is a platform to build social
networks or social relations among people who, for example,
share interests, activities, backgrounds or real -life
connections,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking

7. 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.
With a web browser, one can view web pages that may
contain text, images, videos, and other
multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWW
HTML
“ HTML or
HyperText Mark-up Language is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information
that can be displayed in a web browser,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

8. 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,”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed