Common Online Terminologies

Baje E. Apolonia | Bachelor of Secondary Education | University of Santo Tomas

COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIES

e - mail

n.Sending message to another person by means of computer network.

Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/e-mail

n.To rant about your feelings, add material to.

Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/blog

Social Bookmarking

Centralized online service that allow users to add, annotate, and share bookmarks of web documents.

Source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Social+bookmarking

Consist of codes that are enclosed in angle brackets e.g. <html> within the webpage content.

Source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/html

Broadcast + iPod = Podcast

Consist of audio, radio and video, subscribed to and downloaded through web syncdication.

Podcast

Source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/podcast

Voice Over Internet Protocol

Group of technologies that is responsible for the passing of voice communications and multimedia.

Source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/voIP

Form of communication by means of internet. It enables the receiver to respond quickly and the sender to send messages quickly.

Online Chat

Source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/online+chat

World Wide Web

Usually known as the web. A system accessed by the web through a web browser.

Source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/www

A sequence of data elements that is available over time.

Multimedia streamed to an end-user.

Streaming

Source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Streaming

A platform to build social networks and social relations through internet.

Social Networking

Source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Social+networking

Uniform Resource Locator

Constitutes reference of a resource.

Also known as Web Address

Source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/URL

WEB FEED

Source: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/web+feed

Providing users with frequently update content.

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