Common Online

Terminologies

Prepared by: Kristine Olive B. Caravana – 1E2

University of Santo TomasEspana, Manila

College of Education

Common Online Terminologies

Email VoIP Blog Wiki Online Chat Social Networking WWW URL HTML Streaming Web Feed Podcast Social Bookmarking

• E-mail

• Electronic mail, most

commonly referred to

as email or e-

mail since 1993.

• It is a method of exchanging

digital messages from an

author to one or more

recipients.

• Modern email operates

across the Internet or

other computer networks.

• VoIP

• Short for Voice over Internet 

Protocol.

• A category of hardware and

software that enables people

to use the Internet as the

transmission medium for

telephone calls by sending

voice data in packets

using IP rather than by

traditional circuit

transmissions of the PSTN.

• Blog• A website containing a write

r's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc.,and often having images and links to other websites.

• A post or an entry in a website.

• Wiki• A collaborative Web

site comprises the perpetual collective work of many authors.

• The term wiki refers to either the Web site or the software used to create the site.

• Online Chat• Text based communication

in real time between two users over a network or the internet.

• the exchange of messages in an internet or other network chatroom.

• Social Networking

• an online service, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people.

• WWW• World Wide Web•  A system of

interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

• Contains text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

• URL• Universal Resource Locator• It's another name for a web

address, the address that you type into your internet browser when you want to go to a website.

• HTML• Hypertext Markup

Language• It is the set

of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page.

• Streaming• Data streaming, commonly

seen in the forms of audio and video streaming, is when a multimedia file can be played back without being completely downloaded first.

• Webfeed

• A data format used for

providing users with

frequently updated content.

•  A web feed is also

sometimes referred to as

a syndicated feed.

• Podcasts• Refer to any audio, video or

digital media that is distributed to any computing device on a regular or demand basis.

• The word podcast is similar to ‘broadcast’ in that the term can refer to the content itself or to the method used to distribute the content. 

• Social

Bookmarking

• A centralized online service

which enables users to add,

annotate, edit, and

share bookmarks of web

documents.

• Delicious, founded in 2003,

popularized the terms "social

bookmarking" 

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