Common Online Terminologies

Barredo, Sean Frances P.1PSED1

University of Santo Tomas

Email VoIP BlogWiki Online Chat Social Networking Social Bookmarking WWW URLHTML Streaming Web FeedPodcast

LIST OF TERMINOLOGIES

1. Email An

electronic mail

A system where one can send or receive messages through computers or mobile phone.

2. WikiA server program

that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site.

Allows users to create or edit content.

3. Social BookmarkingSaving and

storing information for future access.

Advantage: One can easily access the bookmarked page in any computer with internet connection.

4. HTML

HyperText Markup LanguageIt is needed to create documents on

the World Wide Web.

5. Podcast

It is a digital audio where one can listen to by downloading from a website.

6. VoIP

Voice Over Internet ProtocolAnalog voice signal to digital data packetsAllows telephone calls over computer networks

7. Online Chat Synchronous

transmission of messages from sender to receiver.

Can be text-based or through the use of web cameras.

8. WWW

World Wide WebIt consists all the public

Web sites connected to the internet.

9. Streaming

A technique for transferring data mostly for users who do not have enough access in downloading large multimedia.

10. Blog

Accessible through internet where one can write his own opinion, experiences, or observations.

11. Social Networking

It is a type of connection with family, friends, or colleagues through the

social media.

12. URL Uniform Resource Locator A formatted text string to

identify a network resource in the internet.

13. Web Feed

A document that include web links to the source of the content.

Sources of web feed: News website, blogs

REFERENCES• http://compnetworking.about.com/od/internetaccess

bestuses/• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki• http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-network

ing.asp• http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/wiki• http://weblogs.about.com/od/marketingablog/qt/Soc

ialBookmark.htm