Activity 11 common online terminologies

COMMON ONLINE

TERMINOLOGIES

Created By: Mark Jeffrey Dela Cruz Del Monte

1st Year 1E2

COMP1A

College of Education

University of Santo Tomas

E-MAIL

• Also known as Electronic Mail• Referred as e-mail or email since 1993• Is a method of exchanging digital

messages from an author to one or more recipients

• Its discovery replaced the so called “snailmail”

WIKI

Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki

• Usually a web application to add, modify or delete information of a certain topic or term.

• Wikipedia is one of the websites where info can be attained and shared

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

A social bookmarking service is

a centralized online service which

enables users to add, annotate,

edit, and share bookmarks of web

documents.

Social bookmarking and file

sharing are two different topics.

HTML

Also known as HyperText

Markup Language.

It is the main markup language

for creating web pages and other

information that can be displayed

in a web browser.Logo of HTML 5

PODCAST

Also known as netcast.

Digital medium consisting of an episodic series of

audio, video, PDF or ePub files.

VOIP

Also known as Voice over Internet Protocol.

A methodology and group of technologies for the

delivery of voice communications and multimedia

sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks such as

internet.

ONLINE CHAT

A kind of communication in which the internet is

involved for having chats.

Also, it is a kind of communication over the

internet that offers a real time transmission of text

messages from the sender to the receiver

WWW

Also known as the world wide web, w3 or the web.

Via internet, it is a system of interlinked hypertext

documents

Using a web browser, one can view web pages that

contain information like text, images, videos and

other multimedia and navigate between them via

hyperlinks.

STREAMING

It is the delivery method of the medium rather than

the medium itself.

Also known as media streaming

It is a technique that transfers data to which that it

can be processed as a steady and continuous stream.

BLOG

It is also considered as a truncation of the

expression web log.

A discussion or a site which is informational and is

published on the world wide web that consists of

post/ discrete entries. These post are typically

displayed in reverse chronological order (means that

the most recent post appears first).

SOCIAL NETWORKING

It is a method among people who communicate,

share interests, activities, backgrounds or real life

connections.

Websites are commonly used in this method.

The websites are called social sites where people

share their thoughts, opinions, views, etc. to the

world.

URL

Also called as uniform resource locator, web

address or HTTP.

It is a specific character string that consists a

reference to a specific resource.

It is usually typed on the top inside the address

bar.

WEB FEED

Also known as a news feed.

Sometimes referred as a syndicated feed.

A collection of these web feeds that is accessible in

one spot is known as a aggregation.

A data format used for providing people or users

with continuous updated content.

REFERENCES

Some meanings taken from

http://www.wikipedia.org/

Others are either created, rephrased or merely

thought by creator.

Pictures taken from Google.com.