This document defines and explains common online terminology such as email, wikis, hashtags, HTML, podcasts, online chat, VoIP, streaming media, blogs, social networking, URLs, and web feeds. Email is text messages sent over a network, while a wiki allows collaborative editing online. Hashtags are used to save and share bookmarks online. HTML defines formatting for web pages and podcasts are episodic digital audio files that can be subscribed to. [END SUMMARY]

1. Common Online
Terminologies
Aiera Therese R. Vasquez
Bachelor of Elementary Education
Major in Preschool Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. Short for electronic mail, e-mail or email is text messages
that may contain files, images, or other attachments sent
through a network to a specified individual or group of
individuals. The first e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson in
1971. By 1996, more electronic mail was being sent than
postal mail. Below is an example and breakdown of an
Internet e-mail address.
A wiki 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 markup 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.
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.

5. 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. Thereby, a feeling similar to a spoken
conversation is created, which distinguishes chatting from other textbased online communication forms such as Internet forums and email.

6. 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
Streaming media is multimedia that is
part of the World Wide Web.
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.

7. 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).
Voice-over internet protocol: a
system for converting analogue
signals to digital so that telephone
calls may be made over the
internet.

8. 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. A social network service consists of a
representation of each user (often a profile), his social links, and a variety of
additional services. Social networking is web-based services that allow
individuals to create a public profile, to create a list of users with whom to
share connection, and view and cross the connections within the system.

9. A uniform resource locator, abbreviated as 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.
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.

10. Sources:
• http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/e/email.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
• http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialbookmarking101/p/aboutsocialtags
.htm
• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/HTML.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat
• http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Volp
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media
• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/World_Wide_Web.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed