Activity9 common online terminologies

Marie Beatrice MendozaBEED-PSED

University of Sto.Thomas

SOME ONLINE

TERMINOLOGIES

Short for electronic mail Transmission of messages over communications

networks.The messages can be notes entered from the

keyboard or electronic fi les stored on disk. Some electronic-mail systems are confined to a

single computer system or network, but others have gateways to other computer systems, enabling users to send electronic mail anywhere in the world.

fast, flexible, and reliable.

E-MAIL

Short term for WIKIPEDIAA collaborative Web site comprises a collective work

of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows

anyone to edit, delete or modify content that has been placed on the Web site using a browser interface, including the work of previous authors.

In contrast, a blog, typically authored by an individual, does not allow visitors to change the original posted material, only add comments to the original content.

The term wiki refers to either the Web site or the software used to create the site.

WIKI

Social bookmarking is to examine how they work. Links are listed on a network, then whoever has

access to that network can search for links that pertain to the keywords that person is searching for.

Each link has three keywords associated with it, generally keywords that are optimized on their webpages, and when those keywords are searched for, ideally, it is that particular link that comes up.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

Short for HyperText Markup Language, Authoring language used to create documents on the

World Wide Web. HTML is similar to SGML. It is not a strict subset.

HTML

A media player by Apple Computer that is used for playing digital music or video fi les.

iTunes is also used to purchase digital music fi les or subscribe to podcasts through Apple's iTunes Music Store.

The iTunes player is also an interface on the iPod and iPhone. The iTunes media player was launched in 2001.

PODCAST

Short for Voice over Internet ProtocolCategory 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.

An 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.

VOIP

Real-time communication between two users via computer.

Once a chat has been initiated, either user can enter text by typing on the keyboard and the entered text will appear on the other user's monitor.

Most networks and online services off er a chat feature like Facebook,Gmail,Yahoo.

ONLINE CHAT

The WWW prefix (short for World Wide Web) Always the fi rst in URL addresses is an indication that

the Web address exists on the vast network of the World Wide Web.

Sometimes in a URL the "WWW" is followed by a number, such as "WWW1" or "WWW2."

WWW

Streaming or 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 because most users do not have fast enough access to download large multimedia fi les quickly.

Client browser or plug-in can start displaying the data before the entire fi le has been transmitted.

STREAMING

Short for Web logA blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly

accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the

personality of the author.

BLOG

A social structure made of nodes that are generally individuals or organizations.

A social network represents relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, animals, computers or other information/knowledge processing entities.

The term itself was coined in 1954 by J. A. Barnes.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) it is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

The fi rst part of the URL is called a protocol identifier and it indicates what protocol to use

second part is called a resource name and it specifies the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located.

The protocol identifier and the resource name are separated by a colon and two forward slashes.

URL

A Web document that is a shortened version of a Web page that has been created for syndication. Feeds usually end in .xml or .rss.

WEBFEED

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/e_mail.htmlhttp://

www.brickmarketing.com/what-is-social-bookmarking.htm

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/podcasting.htmlhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/wiki.htmlhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/HTML.htmlhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/VoIP.htmlhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.htmlhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/blog.htmlhttp://

www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/social_network.htmlhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/feed.htmlhttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/URL.html

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