Common Online Terminologies

CommonOnline

Terminologies

Electronic Mail (E-Mail) A system for sending and receiving messages

electronically over a computer network, as between personal computers.

 A message or messages sent or received by such a system.

Reference:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/e-mail

Weblog (Blog) A Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often

hyperlinks provided by the writer.

The contents of such a site.

Reference:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blog

Online Chat

The term online chat 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.

Reference:

http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-online-chat

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method of saving and storing online information or web pages for

future reference. Rather than adding web pages to your “favourite's” menu in your web browser,

you can bookmark them using a social bookmarking site for future access.

Reference:

http://weblogs.about.com/od/marketingablog/qt/SocialBookmark.htm

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

 A URL is a formatted text string used by Web browsers, email clients and other software to identify a network resource on the Internet. Network resources are files that can be plain

Web pages, other text documents, graphics, or programs.

Reference:

http://compnetworking.about.com/od/internetaccessbestuses/g/bldef-url.htm

Streaming

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 files quickly.

Reference:

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

Podcast

A digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or

portable media player, typically available as a series, new instalments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.

Reference:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/podcast

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

A system for converting analogue signals to digital so that telephone calls may be made

over the internet.

A protocol for transmitting the human voice in digital form over the Internet or other networks as an audio stream, instead of using traditional

telephone lines.

Reference:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/VoIP

Wiki

A website or database developed collaboratively by a community of users,

allowing any user to add and edit content.

Reference:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/wiki

Social Networking An online community of people with a common inte

rest who use a website or other technologies to communicate with each other and share informa

tion, resources, etc.: a business-oriented social network.

A website or online service that facilitates this communication.

Reference:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/social+network

World Wide Web (WWW)

The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol,

accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.

Reference:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/World+Wide+Web

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)

A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on

the World Wide Web.

Reference:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/HTML

Web Feed

A web feed is a document (often XML-based) whose discrete content items include web links to the source of the content. News websites and

blogs are common sources for web feeds, but feeds are also used to deliver structured

information ranging from weather data to top-ten lists of hit tunes to search results. The two

main web feed formats are RSS and Atom.

Reference:

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