COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIES

VIRLY, Blanche Meryll C.Bachelor of Elementary Education

major in Preschool EducationUniversity of Santo Tomas

EMAIL

Short for electronic mail, the transmission of messages over communication networks. Some electronic-mail systems are confined to a single computer system or network, but others have gateways to other computer systems, enabling users to send electronic mail anywhere in the world.

WIKI

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.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

A social bookmarking service is a centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social bookmarking" and "tagging".

HTML

Short for HyperText Markup Language, the authoring languageused to create documents on the World Wide Web. HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes.

PODCAST

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.

VoIP

The term VoIP stands for voice over Internet Protocol. VoIP is related to the terms IP telephony and Internet telephony, which you'll be hearing more and more about during the next several years. VoIP has had a lot of buzz and hype behind it, though recently it has lost a little of its steam.

ONLINE CHATIt 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 text-based online communication forms such as Internet forums and email. Online chat may address point-to-point communications as well as multicast communications from one sender to many receivers and voice and video chat, or may be a feature of a web conferencing service.

WWWWorld Wide Web. Collection of internet resources (such as FTP, telnet, Usenet), hyperlinked text, audio, and video files, and remote sites that can be accessed and searched by browsers based on standards such as HTTP and TCP/IP. Also called the web, it was created in 1989 by the UK physicist Tim Berners-Lee while working at the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Switzerland, as an easier way to access information scattered across the internet.

STREAMING

It is a method of relaying data (esp. video and audio material) over a computer network as a steady continuous stream, allowing playback to proceed while subsequent data is being received.

BLOG

A web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer; also :  the contents of such a site.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

The use of dedicated websites and applications to communicate informally with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself.

URL

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.

WEB FEEDA 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.

References:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/e_mail.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarkinghttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/HTML.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasthttp://www.cio.com/article/40796/VoIP_Definition_and_Solutionshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chathttp://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/World-Wide-Web-WWW.htmlhttps://www.google.com.ph/search?q=streaming&oq=streaming&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1715j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=streaming+meaninghttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloghttps://www.google.com.ph/search?q=social+networking&oq=social+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j69i59l2j69i60l2j0.4067j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=social+networking+meaninghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locatorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed

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