2. O “Electronic Mail”
EMAIL
O Method of exchanging digital files
like images, audio, videos, etc.
from the author to the recipient
over communication networks.
An example and breakdown of an Internet email address:
behappy@example.com
Alias
(at sign)
-used as a divider
in the e-mail
address.
The domain name of
where the user belongs
3. WIKI
O A web application that allows users
to generally edit a page in real time,
search the wiki's content, and view
updates since your last visit.
O Additional features can include
calendar sharing, live AV conferencing,
RSS feeds and more.
4. Social Bookmarking
O Tagging a website and
saving it for later use.
O Allows users to specifically
target what they want to
see.
Examples of popular
social networking sites:
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Pinterest
4. Google Plus+
5. Tumblr
5. HTML
O “Hypertext Mark-up Language”
O Language used to create documents on the
World Wide Web.
O Uses a variety of tags and attributes to
define the structure and layout of a Web
document.
6. HTML
O Basic structure of an HTML document:
O 2 main parts of an HTML document:
O HEAD - contains title and meta data of a web document.
O BODY - contains the information that you want to display on a web
page.
7. PODCAST
O Also called “netcast.”
O An audio or video program formatted to be
played on the iPod and made available for free
or for purchase over the Internet.
O The name derives from the combination of
broadcast and iPod.
8. O “Voice over Internet Protocol”
VOIP
O 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.
9. Online Chat
O Any type of communication that needs
the internet to take place.
O This type of communication usually
offers real time and direct transmission
of text based messages.
10. WWW
O “World Wide Web”
O Consists of all the public Web sites
connected to the Internet worldwide,
including the client devices (such as
computers and cell phones) that access
Web content.
11. STREAMING
O A technique for transferring data so that it can be
processed as a steady and continuous stream.
12. URL
O
O
O
“Uniform Resource Locator”
Also known as “web address”
A formatted text string used by Web browsers, email clients and
other software to identify a network resource on the Internet.
URL strings consist of three parts (substrings):
O
O
O
O
1. network protocol
2. host name or address
3. file or resource location
These substrings are separated by special characters as follows:
protocol :// host / location
13. O “Web Log”
O A discussion or informational site
published on the World Wide Web and
consisting of entries or posts typically
displayed in reverse chronological order.
O An online journal or diary.
O Blogging – the act of writing a post for a
blog.
15. SOCIAL NETWORKING
O The grouping of individuals
into specific groups, like
small rural communities or
a neighbourhood
subdivision, if you will.
Most Popular Social Networking Sites:
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. LinkedIn
4. Pinterest
5. Tumblr
16. WEBFEED
O A data format used for providing users with frequently
updated content.
O Advantages:
O Users do not disclose their email address when subscribing to
a feed and so are not increasing their exposure to threats
associated with email: spam, viruses, phishing, and identity
theft.
O
Users do not have to send an unsubscribe request to stop
receiving news. They simply remove the feed from their
aggregator.
O
The feed items are automatically sorted in that each feed URL
has its own sets of entries (unlike an email box where
messages must be sorted by user-defined rules and pattern
matching).
