This document defines and briefly describes common online terminology including email, wikis, social bookmarking, HTML, podcasts, VoIP, online chat, WWW, streaming, blogs, social networking, URLs, web feeds, and references. Email allows electronic messaging between computers via a network. Wikis are websites that allow collaborative editing of information. Social bookmarking services let users bookmark and share web documents. HTML is the standard language for tagging text and multimedia files on web pages.

1. Common
Online
Terminologies
Patrick M. Cristobal

2. Email

Messages can be sent through one computer to
another electronically via a network.

3. Wiki
A
website usually have a lot of definitions
or meaning of a certain information and
allows collaborative editing of it’s
information by other users.

4. Social Bookmarking
 The
user is allowed by the centralized
online service to add, annotate, edit, and
share bookmarks of a certain web
document.

5. HTML
 Hypertext
Mark-up Language
 A standardized system for tagging text
files to achieve font, color, graphic, and
hyperlink effects on World Wide Web
pages.

6. Podcast
A
multimedia digital file made available
on the Internet for downloading to a
portable media player, computer, etc.

7. VoIP


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.

8. Online Chat
 It
is a kind of communication over the
internet that offers the users a quick
response like chat messages.

9. WWW
 World
Wide Web
 all the resources and users on the Internet
that are using the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol(HTTP).

10. Streaming
 Instead
of downloading a file to your
computer, streaming is listening or
watching it in real time.

11. Blog
 It
is sometimes referred to as an online
personal journal. It is a site designated for
an individual to write about his/her daily
experiences, to express thoughts and
often allowing readers to comment their
insights.

12. Social Networking
a
virtual community or profile site, a social
network is a web site on the Internet that
brings people together in a central
location to talk, share ideas, share
interests, make new friends, etc.

13. URL


Uniform Resource Locator
A formatted text string used by Web browsers,
email clients and other software to identify
a network resource on the Internet. Network
resources are files that can be plain Web pages,
other text documents, graphics, or programs.

14. Web Feed


A web feed lets websites continuously "feed" you
notices of their new content. RSS is simply a type of
web feed.
a data format used for providing users with
frequently updated content. Content
distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby
allowing users to subscribe to it.

15. References
 www.wikipedia.org/
 www.About.com