Activity 13 common online terminologies

Common

Online

Terminologies

Loise Samson Bachelor of Secondary

EducationUniversity of Santo Tomas

Email

Email or e-mail stands for Electronic Mail. It is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more receiver or recipients .

Modern email operates across the internet or other computer

networks.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Social Networking has become very popular during the past few years, but it can still be very difficult to understand for someone new to social networking. The open-ended nature of social networks add to this. Once signed onto a social network, having answered a few basic profile questions, it is easy to sit back and wonder what you are supposed to do next.

BLOG

A blog is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries or posts,

typically it is displayed in reverse chronological order.

Online ChatAn Online Chat refers to a communication

between two people over the internet. Through Online Chat two people that are

away from each other may have a conversation easily.

Social Bookmarking

A social bookmarking service is a centralized online service that enables users to add, edit, and

share bookmarks of web documents.

One significant feature of social bookmarking systems is Tagging. Through Tagging users can

organize their bookmarks in flexible ways.

URLURL stands for Uniform

Resource Locator, previously Universal

Resource Locator. It refers is the unique address for a

file that is accessible on the Internet. One common

way to get in to a website is by entering the URL of its home page file in

your web browser's address line.

STREAMINGStreaming or also known as media

streaming is a technique for transferring data so that it can be processed as a

steady and continuous stream. Streaming technologies are becoming

increasingly important with the growth of the Internet now a days because most

of the users do not have fast enough access to download

large multimedia files quickly. In streaming, the client browser can

immediately start displaying the data before the entire file has been

transmitted.

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

content in collaboration with others. Text is usually written using a simplified mark

up language or a rich-text editor.

It is a type of content management system, it differs from a blog or most

other such systems in that the content is created without any defined owner or

leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge

according to the needs of the users.

HTMLHTML stands for Hyper Text Mark up

Language. It is the main mark up language for creating web pages and other information that can be seen

displayed in a web browser.It is written in the form of html

elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets, within the web page

content. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and </h1.

PODCASTA podcast or also known as netcast. It is a digital

medium consisting of an episodic series

of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to

and can be downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or

mobile device.

VoIPVoIP stands for Voice over Internet

Protocolis. It 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. Other terms commonly associated with VoIP are IP

telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VoBB), broadband telephony, IP communications, and broadband phone service.

WWWWWW stands for World

Wide Web.It is a collection of blogs, videoes, social media and

internet resourcesIt is a primary server.

WEB FEEDA web feed (or news feed) is a data format

used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content

distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a

collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed

by an aggregator. A web feed is also sometimes referred to as a syndicated feed.

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