Activity 13 Common Online Terminologies

Common Online Terminologies

Chrizia OñateBachelor of Secondary Education

University of Santo Tomas

E-mail• Email or E-mail is

the shortened term for “electronic mail”

• It is a text that may have some file attachments to be sent to an individual through the internet.

• Some examples are:

Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, etc.

Blog

Blog (noun): a journal or diary that’s on the internet

- A blog is an individual’s journal, online.

- It may be posted in a certain blog site, or in your own personalized site(s).

Online Chat- Online chat is the

type of communication done over the internet.

- It is on a real-time transmission of texts from one chatter to another.

Social BookmarkingIt is tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them

to the web. And, because your

bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends.

http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialbookmarking101/p/aboutsocialtags.htm

URL• Uniform Resource

Locator• It is the global

access of documents and other resources in the World Wide Web.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html

Streaming• Streaming or media

streaming is a technique for

transferring data so that it can be

processed as a steady and

continuous stream. http://

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

Podcast

• Podcast is a digital medium consisting of episodic series of videos, audios, PDF files, etc. that are downloaded online.

VoIP• Voice over Internet

Protocol (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.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_IP

Wiki• A wiki is usually a

web application which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with

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

Wiki

Social Networking

• A social networking service is an online site that

focuses on facilitating the building of social relations among people who share

interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life

connections.• Such as:

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc..

WWW• Stands for “World

Wide Web”• A system of

Internet servers that support specially formatted documents called the HTML.

HTML

• “HyperText Markup Language”

• The main markup language for creating web pages.

Web Feed

• A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

Sources:• http://mashable.com/category/social-networking/• http://

webtrends.about.com/od/socialbookmarking101/p/aboutsocialtags.htm

• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html• http://

www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_IP• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki• http://

www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/World_Wide_Web.html

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