This document defines and provides links to Wikipedia articles about common online terminology including email, wikis, social bookmarking, HTML, podcasts, VoIP, online chat, the World Wide Web, streaming media, social networking, URLs, blogs, and web feeds. It explains that email exchanges digital messages, wikis allow collaborative editing, social bookmarking shares bookmarks, HTML creates web pages, podcasts are episodic audio/video files, VoIP makes phone calls over the internet, online chat provides real-time text messaging, the World Wide Web links hypertext documents, streaming media is continuously delivered multimedia, social networking expands business/social connections, URLs uniquely locate files, blogs are reverse chronological discussion sites, and web feeds

1. Pamela Ishbel Sy Carpio
Bachelor of Secondary Education
University of Santo Tomas

2. Electronic mail, most commonly
referred to as email or e-mail is a
method of exchanging digital messages
from an author to one or more
recipients.

3. 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 mark
up language or a rich-text editor.

4. • A social bookmarking service is
a centralized online service
which enables users to add,
annotate, edit, and
share bookmarks of web
documents.

5. •HTML or HyperText
Markup Language is the
main mark up language for
creating web pages and other
information that can be
displayed in a web browser.

6. • 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.

7. VoIP is a technology that allows
telephone calls to be made over computer
networks like the Internet. VoIP converts
analog voice signals into digital data
packets and supports real-time, two-way
transmission of conversations using
Internet Protocol (IP).

8. Online chat may refer to any kind
of communication over
the internet that offers a realtime transmission of text messages
from sender to receiver.

9. 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.

10. Streaming
media is multimedia that is
constantly received by and
presented to an end-user while
being delivered by a provider.

11. • Social networking is the practice
of expanding the number of one's
business and/or social contacts
by making connections through
individuals.

12. A URL (Uniform Resource
Locator, previously Universal
Resource Locator) is the unique
address for a file that is accessible
on the Internet.

13. • 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).

14. A web feed (or news feed)
is a data format used for
providing users with
frequently updated
content.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
http://www.slideshare.net/AileeneTan/common-online-terminologies-30744801?from_search=1
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/social-networking
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http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/URL
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed