Common Online Terminologies

Common Online Terminologies

By: Charles Michael M. Soriano

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Email (Electronic Mail)

- It is a method of sending a digital message through the use of technology.

Wiki (Wikipedia)

- It is a web application which allows people to add, edit, or delete a content in collaboration with others.

Social Bookmarking

- It is a centralized online service which users use to annotate or edit bookmarks of web documents.

HTML - the HyperText Markup Language is used for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in the web browser.

Podcast

- Consist of an episodic series of audio, video, or PDF subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or steamed online through a computer or mobile device.

VoIP- Voice over Internet Protocol is a group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over the Internet.

Online Chat

- May refer to any kind of communication through the internet.

WWW (World Wide Web)

- A system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via internet.

Streaming

- a method of relaying data (esp. video and audio material) over a computer network as a steady continuous stream, allowing playback to proceed while subsequent data is being received.

Blog

- a personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis.

Social Networking

- the use of dedicated websites and applications to communicate informally with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

- a formatted text string used by Web browsers, email clients and other software to identify a network resource on the Internet.

Web Feed

- a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. 

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