COMMON ONLINE
TERMINOLOGIES
Jeselle Cecilia L. NavarreteBachelor of Elementary Education Major in Preschool EducationUniversity of Sto. Tomas, Philippines
E-MAIL (ELECTRONIC MAIL)• Sending messages digitally• The writer can have two or more
recipients• You have the option to write a
subject or not• Free to place attachments• Available in Yahoo!, Google, Hot,
etc,
• Has an attachment size• May contain spam/viruses• No read reports
WIKI• System of getting together
information• Wikipedia is the most popular Wiki• Invented by Ward Cunningham• Contains search bar and links• Usually an application or website
• Changes may not be controlled• Information may not be credible• Information is not secured
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING• Saving a link or copying it
and sending it to others• Instead of saving it for you
own, you share it • With this, you don’t need
search engines because you can get what you want in an instant
HTML•Hypertext Markup Language•Set of codes which shows in the web•Results appear differently in different browsers
PODCAST• Freedom to choose what to listen to• Play and broadcast combined• You can listen to any device compatible with mp3• Once downloaded, it’s not a podcast anymore but an ordinary mp3 file
VOIP• Voice Over IP• Telephony term• Sending voice information• No charges• Uses real-time protocol
ONLINE CHAT
• Exchanging messages through a downloaded application or program• Both the author aqnd the
recipient has to be online for it to be called chat• Social networking sites have
this feature to further communicate with people
WORLD WIDE WEB•A system that supports
HTML documents, photos, links and other media•Provides the chance to click and transfer from one page to another getting more information as a result•Accessed with a browser
STREAMING
• Listening to audio or watching video online• An alternative to downloading• Beneficial for those users who do not have a fast connection enough to download large files• The file may buffer before it can be listened to or viewed by a user
BLOG•A site containing a writer’s experiences, opinions and other personal stuff he/she wants to share•May have links or photos•Can be a bought url or through a site (e.g. Tumblr, Blogger, etc.)
URL• Uniform Resource Locator• Also known as web address• A reference to a source• Standardized in 1994 by Tim Berners Lee• Used for web pages and also for file transfers, email, numbers and applications
SOCIAL NETWORKING• Expanding connections by
making new contacts and finding old ones
• Establishes Internet Communities
• Examples are Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln, etc.
WEB FEED•Updating users with content•Subscription is involved•No need for unsubscribing but rather, removal of feed
Sources
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki• http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialbookmarking101/p/aboutso
cialtags.htm• http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/HTML• http://www.howtopodcasttutorial.com/what-is-a-podcast.htm• http://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/definition/Vo
IP• http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english
/chat• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/World_Wide_Web.html• http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/streaming.html• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blog• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator• http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/social-networking• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed