Common Online

Terminologies

University of Santo TomasBeatrice V. Varela

BSED

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

• The inventor of email did not invent email. Email was actually invented by the Bell System and was in commercial operation long before the Arpanet even existed.

• Is a server program that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site.

• The term comes from the word "wikiwiki," which means "fast" in the Hawaiian language.

• Is a centralized online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents.

• Top 15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites:

- Facebook -Reddit -FARK- Twitter -Stumble Upon -Newsvine- Pinterest- Folkd -Slashdot- Google plus -MetaFilter -Delicious- Tumblr - Digg -Scoop.it

• HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

• Berners-Lee considered HTML to be an application of SGML

• A 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.

• 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

• One advantage of VoIP is that the telephone calls over the Internet do not incur a surcharge beyond what the user is paying for Internet access

• Is used to refer to any type of communication that needs the internet to take place. This type of communication usually offers real time and direct transmission of text based messages.

• World Wide Web• Is a system of interlinked hypertext

documents accessed via the Internet

• there are two ways to listen to or watch audio and video files.

• The first way is to download the file to your computer and watch the file after it resides there.

• The other way to do it is to start a progressive download of the file, where the file isn't downloaded to your computer in a lasting way.

• is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries typically displayed in reverse chronological order.

• Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals.

URL• URL is an acronym for Uniform

Resource Locator • A URL has two main components: -Protocol identifier: For the URL http://example.com, the protocol identifier is http. -Resource name: For the URL http://example.com, the resource name is example.com.

Web Feed

• Another name is news feed• is a data format used for providing

users with frequently updated content.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking• http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking-

websites• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VoIP.html• http://ipod.about.com/od/glossary/g/streaming_def.htm• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog• http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/social-networking• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/urls/

definition.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed