This document defines and describes common online terminology used on the internet and world wide web. It provides definitions for electronic mail (email), wikis, social bookmarking, hypertext markup language (HTML), podcasts, voice over internet protocol (VoIP), streaming video, blogs, online communication methods like email and instant messaging, uniform resource locators (URLs), and RSS feeds. The document serves as a reference for understanding key terms used for different online technologies and applications.

1. Common Online Terminologies
Jana Grace M. Pradez
Bachelor of Elementary Education
major in Pre-school Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. • Electronic mail
• Used to link two people via messages from one
computer to another
• Fastest type of mailing
• transmission of messages over communication
networks

3. • allows users to freely create and edit Web page
content using any Web browser
• Collaborative web site
• a website where different authors share their
ideas

4. • a centralized online service which enables users
to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of
web documents
• Allows users to store data and get to the link as
fast as they could
• displays icons that are clickable and will lead to
urls

5. • Hypertext Markup Language
• symbols or codes
inserted in a file intended for display on a World
Wide Web browser page
• special language used
for creating web sites

6. • Netcast
• digital audio or video file or recording
• a digital medium consisting of an episodic series
of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to
and downloaded

7. • Voice Over Internet Protocol
• a technology that allows telephone calls to be
made over computer networks like the Internet
• voice transmitted over a digital network

8. • direct text-based or video-based
• Have conversation with others with the use of
technology
• It is fast, convenient, and instant
• Provides symbols that develop way of talking to
another person

9. • World Wide Web
• Collection of internet resources
• With a web browser, one can view web pages
that may contain text, images, videos, and other
multimedia and navigate between them via
hyperlinks

10. • applies to audio and video on the Internet
• content sent in compressed form over the
Internet and displayed by the viewer in real time.
• user needs a player, which is a special program
that uncompresses and sends video data to the
display and audio data to speakers

11. • a website where one expresses his feelings and
writes about his thoughts
• contains a writer's own experience, observation
or opinions
• Posting of different kinds of information

12. • Interacting with people by different
ways, processes, and means
• Provides the use of e-mail and instant messaging
• Can connect people all over the world free
through the Internet

13. • Uniform Resource Locator
• Address of a web page
• Internet address that is accessible and quick to
view
• used as an anchor to jump to an element with
the same name

14. • Document whose discrete content items
include web links to the source
• Popularly known as “RSS”: Rich Site Summary
• content delivered by a web feed are typically
HTML or links to webpages and other kinds of
digital media

15. REFERENCE:
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/e_mail.html
http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki
http://www.internetslang.com/WIKI-meaning-definition.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
http:// searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/HTML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/voicefaxoverip/g/bldef_voip.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
http://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/definition/streamin
g-video
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8192742/what-is-the-meaning-of-inurl-and-how-can-i-use-that