COMMON ONLINE TERMINOLOGIES

Alfred Luis P. PerezBachelor of Secondary Education

University of Santo Tomas

E-MAIL

A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network, as between personal computers.

(www.thefreedictionary.com)

BLOG

A web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer

(www.merriam-webster.com)

Online Chat

A kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver

(www.wikipedia.com)

Social Bookmarking

A method for storing and managing bookmarks of Web pages with individually chosen keywords; also, the sharing of this data.

(www.dictionary-reference.com)

URL

An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator and is a reference (an address) to a resource on the Internet.

(www.docs.oracle.com)

Streaming

A technique for transferring data so that it can be processed as a steady and continuous stream.

(www.webopedia.com)

Podcast

A digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or portable media player, typically available as a series, new instalments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.

(www.oxforddictionaries.com)

VoIP

A technology that allows telephone calls to be made over computer networks like the Internet

(www.compnetworking.about.com)

Wiki

The ease with which pages can be created and updated

(www.wikipedia.com)

Social Networking

The practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals

(www.whatis.techtarget.com)

WWW

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.

(www.businessdictionary.com)

HTML

The set of mark-up symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a World Wide Web browser page

(www.searchsoa.techtarget.com)

Web Feed

A data format used for providing users with frequently updated content

(www.wikipedia.com)

References

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

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/social+bookmarking

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/urls/definition.html

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.html

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/podcast

http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/voicefaxoverip/g/bldef_voip.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/social-networking

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/World-Wide-Web-WWW.html

http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/HTML

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed