COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIESShawn Luis S. AsuncionBachelor of Secondary EducationUniversity of Santo Tomas

1. E-mail – Short for “electronic mail”, an E-mail is a message sent through the use of electronic devices such as personal computers and cellphones, via the Internet, and received by another account user.

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Blog

2. Blog – A blog is an on-line record of journal entries. Stories, interests, or ideas are usually the topics of blogs, and are public for others to view and comment.

Online Chat

3. Online Chat – Online chat is a form of real-time communication. Instant exchange of messages or video conferences create an almost face-face feeling of words.

Social Bookmarking

4. Social Bookmarking – an online service that provides users the capability to edit, add, or share bookmarks of online documents.

URL

5. URL – URL stands for “uniform resource locator”. They are web addresses that pinpoints the online resource through character references.

Streaming

6. Streaming – It is the ability of data, like multimedia files, to be played and replayed, even when you haven’t downloaded the file itself.

Podcast

7. Podcast – Podcasts are multimedia files that are available for downloading, and may be played with a personal computer, mobile device, of portable media players.

VoIP

8. VoIP – Short for “Voice over Internet Protocol”, is a software enabling users to send voice calls to others via IP addresses.

Wiki

9. Wiki – A public website containing various information which may be edited by anyone.

Social Networking

10. Social Networking – a form of online interaction wherein a user is able to collaborate or interact with others users by adding them to his list of contacts, forming groups, or uploading files for others to access.

WWW

11. WWW – Short for “World Wide Web”, it is a system interconnected hypertext available for users via the Internet.

HTML

12. HTML – Short for “ HyperText Markup Language”, they are text and symbols put into files for it to be available in the Internet as a Webpage.

Web feed

13. Web feed – A web feed is a document containing to updated versions of files and content.

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