ENTERING THE

INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

Bundoc, Feliz Joseph P.Bachelor of Secondary Education

University of Santo Tomas

Electronic Mail

It is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. 

Email servers accept, forward, deliver, and store messages.

Blog A truncation of the expression ”web log”

 is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of

discrete entries typically displayed in reverse chronological order.

ONLINE CHAT

It may refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission

of text messages from sender to receiver. Chat messages are generally short in order to

enable other participants to respond quickly

Social Bookmarking

It is a centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and

share bookmarks of web documents.

URL

 Uniform Resource Locator is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to a resource.

Streaming (To stream)

 is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while

being delivered by a provider.

Podcast or Netcast

is a digital medium consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF,

or ePub Files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile

device.

VoIP

 is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice 

communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the

Internet. associated to IP telephony, Internet

telephony, voice over broadband, broadband telephony, IP communications, and broadband

phone service.

WiKi

 is usually a web application which allows people to add, modify, or delete content

in collaboration with others. 

Social Networking

 is a platform to build social networks or social relations among

people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life

connections.

WWW (World Wide Web)

 is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. 

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) 

It is the main mark-up language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

Web Feed

It is also called as the NEWS FEED.  is a data format used f or providing users

with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed,

thereby allowing users to subscribe to it.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Chat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Bookmarking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiKi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Networking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWW http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebFeed