COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIES

Jeanne Carla T. GalvezBachelor of Secondary Education

University of Santo Tomas

EMAILO “Electronic Mail”O Method of exchanging digital files like images, audio, videos, etc. from the author to the recipient over communication networks.

An example and breakdown of an Internet email address:behappy@example.com

Alias

(at sign)-used as a divider in the e-mail address.

The domain name of where the user belongs

WIKIO A web application that allows users to generally edit a page in real time, search the wiki's content, and view updates since your last visit.

O Additional features can include calendar sharing, live AV conferencing,

RSS feeds and more.

Social BookmarkingO Tagging a website and

saving it for later use.O Allows users to

specifically target what they want to see.

Examples of popular social networking sites:1. Facebook2. Twitter3. Pinterest4. Google Plus+5. Tumblr

HTMLO “Hypertext Mark-up Language”O Language used to create documents on

the World Wide Web.O Uses a variety of tags and attributes to

define the structure and layout of a Web document.

HTMLO Basic structure of an HTML document:

O 2 main parts of an HTML document:O HEAD - contains title and meta data of a web document.O BODY - contains the information that you want to display

on a web page.

PODCASTO Also called “netcast.”O An audio or video program formatted to

be played on the iPod and made available for free or for purchase over the Internet.

O The name derives from the combination of broadcast and iPod.

VOIPO “Voice over Internet Protocol”O 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.

Online ChatO Any type of communication that

needs the internet to take place. O This type of communication

usually offers real time and direct transmission of text based messages.

WWWO “World Wide Web”O Consists of all the public Web sites

connected to the Internet worldwide, including the client devices (such as computers and cell phones) that access Web content.

STREAMINGO A technique for transferring data so that it

can be processed as a steady and continuous stream.

URLO “Uniform Resource Locator”O Also known as “web address”O A formatted text string used by Web browsers, email

clients and other software to identify a network resource on the Internet.

URL strings consist of three parts (substrings):

O 1. network protocolO 2. host name or addressO 3. file or resource location

O These substrings are separated by special characters as follows:

protocol :// host / location

O “Web Log”O A discussion or informational site

published on the World Wide Web and consisting of entries or posts typically displayed in reverse chronological order.

O An online journal or diary.O Blogging – the act of writing a post

for a blog.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

SOCIAL NETWORKING

O The grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighbourhood subdivision, if you will.

Most Popular Social Networking Sites:1. Facebook2. Twitter3. LinkedIn4. Pinterest5. Tumblr

WEBFEED

O A data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

O Advantages:O Users do not disclose their email address when subscribing to a

feed and so are not increasing their exposure to threats associated with email: spam, viruses, phishing, and identity theft.

O Users do not have to send an unsubscribe request to stop receiving news. They simply remove the feed from their aggregator.

O The feed items are automatically sorted in that each feed URL has its own sets of entries (unlike an email box where messages must be sorted by user-defined rules and pattern matching).