The document defines common online terminology used on the internet and world wide web. It provides definitions for terms like email, blogs, wikis, social networking, hashtags, URLs, HTML, web feeds, podcasts, VoIP, online chat, WWW, and streaming. The definitions are sourced from online references like Wikipedia and dictionaries.

1. : Common Online Terminologies :
Made by: Pauline Estrada
Bachelor of Education
Major in Preschool Education
University of Santo Tomas

2.  Also known as ELECTRONIC MAIL
 Method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more
recipients
 Operates across the internet or other computer networks
 Based
on
a
store-and-forward
model.
Email
servers
accept, forward, deliver, and store messages
E-mail
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

3. BLOG
 A discussion or informational site published on the World
Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries typically
displayed in reverse chronological order.
 Provide commentary on a particular subject
 May function as more personal online diaries, or online
brand advertising
 Also a form of social networking service because readers
of a blog are allowed to leave comments
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

4.  A web site that allows visitors to make changes, contributions or
corrections through a web browser.
 Originated in WikiWikiWeb, a web site with such programming
introduced in 1995
Wiki
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wiki

5. Social Networking
 A social structure made up of a set of social actors and a set of the dyadic
ties between actors.
 An online community of people with a common interest who use a website or
other technologies to communicate with each other and share
information, resource, etc.
Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/social+network

6. Social Bookmarking
The practice of saving bookmarked web pages to a
public website as a way to share the links with other
internet users.
Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/social+bookmarking

7.  An internet address, usually consisting of the access protocol, the domain
name, and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server
 Addresses for web sites
 URL stands for Uniform Resource Locators
URL
Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/URL

8. HTML
Stands for HyperText Markup Language
The main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can
be displayed in a web browser
It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle
brackets
Allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive
forms.
Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990
The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called “HTML Tags”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

9. Data format used for providing users with frequently updated content
A computer-readable file that summarises the information published
on a web site
Most commonly used web feed is the RSS (RDF Site Summary) format
Web feed
Source: http://www.nature.com/webfeeds/index.html

10. Podcast
Also known as Netcast
Derived from “broadcast” and “pod” from the success of the iPod
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 of mobile device
A program made available in digital format for automatic download over the internet
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

11. VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol
A technology that allows telephone calls to be made over computer networks like the Internet
It converts analog voice signals into digital date packets and supports real-time, two-way
transmission of conversation using IP (Internet Protocol)
Offers a substantial cost savings over traditional long distance telephone calls
Disadvantage: greater potential for dropped calls and degraded voice quality when underlying
network links are under heavy load.
Source: http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/voicefaxoverip/g/bldef_voip.htm

12. Comes from the word “chat” which means “informal conversation”
Refers to any kind of communication over the internet that offers a real-time transmission of
text messages from sender to receiver
May address point-to-point communications as well as multicast communications from one
sender to many receivers and voice or video chat, or may be a feature of web conferencing
service
Any direct text-based or video-based, one-on-one chat or one-to-many group chat using tools
such as instant messengers, internet relay chat, and the like.
Online Chat

13. WWW
World Wide Web
A system of internet servers that support specially formatted documents
Not all internet servers are part of the World Wide Web
WWW is not synonymous with the internet
Source: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/World_Wide_Web.html

14. Streaming
A technique for transferring data so that it can be processed as a steady and
continuous stream
Multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being
delivered by a provider
Refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.html