Common Online Terminologies

: Common Online Terminologies :

Made by: Pauline Estrada

Bachelor of Education Major in Preschool Education

University of Santo Tomas

E-mail

Also known as ELECTRONIC MAIL Method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more

recipients Operates across the internet or other computer networks Based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver,

and store messages

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

BLOG

A discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries typically displayed in reverse chronological order.

Provide commentary on a particular subject May function as more personal online diaries, or online

brand advertising Also a form of social networking service because readers

of a blog are allowed to leave comments

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

Wiki

A web site that allows visitors to make changes, contributions or corrections through a web browser.

Originated in WikiWikiWeb, a web site with such programming introduced in 1995

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wiki

Social Networking

A social structure made up of a set of social actors and a set of the dyadic ties between actors.

An online community of people with a common interest who use a website or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information, resource, etc.

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

Social Bookmarking

The practice of saving bookmarked web pages to a public website as a way to share the links with other internet users.

Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/social+bookmarking

URL

An internet address, usually consisting of the access protocol, the domain name, and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server

Addresses for web sites URL stands for Uniform Resource Locators

Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/URL

HTMLStands for HyperText Markup LanguageThe main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browserIt is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle bracketsAllows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms.Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called “HTML Tags”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

Web feed

Data format used for providing users with frequently updated contentA computer-readable file that summarises the information published on a web siteMost commonly used web feed is the RSS (RDF Site Summary) format

Source: http://www.nature.com/webfeeds/index.html

Podcast

Also known as NetcastDerived from “broadcast” and “pod” from the success of the iPodA digital medium consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer of mobile deviceA program made available in digital format for automatic download over the internet

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

VoIP

Voice over Internet ProtocolA technology that allows telephone calls to be made over computer networks like the InternetIt converts analog voice signals into digital date packets and supports real-time, two-way transmission of conversation using IP (Internet Protocol)Offers a substantial cost savings over traditional long distance telephone callsDisadvantage: greater potential for dropped calls and degraded voice quality when underlying network links are under heavy load.

Source: http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/voicefaxoverip/g/bldef_voip.htm

Online Chat

Comes from the word “chat” which means “informal conversation”Refers to any kind of communication over the internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiverMay address point-to-point communications as well as multicast communications from one sender to many receivers and voice or video chat, or may be a feature of web conferencing serviceAny direct text-based or video-based, one-on-one chat or one-to-many group chat using tools such as instant messengers, internet relay chat, and the like.

WWW

World Wide WebA system of internet servers that support specially formatted documentsNot all internet servers are part of the World Wide WebWWW is not synonymous with the internet

Source: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/World_Wide_Web.html

Streaming

A technique for transferring data so that it can be processed as a steady and continuous stream Multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a providerRefers to the delivery method of the medium rather than the medium itself

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_mediahttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.html