Part of an academic requirement. Talks about various terms in Information and Communication Technology.

1. Common Online Terminologies
Claroniño, Christopher John B.
Secondary Education, University of
Santo Tomas

2. E-mail
• Shortened form of “electronic mail”
• Messages that are sent electronically from one
user to another (Merriam-Webster, accessed on
February 3, 2014)

3. Wiki
• A Web site that allows visitors to make changes,
contributions, or corrections (Merriam-Webster,
accessed on February 3, 2014)

4. Social Bookmarking
• A social bookmarking service is a centralized
online service which enables users to add,
annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web
documents. (Wikipedia, accessed on February 3,
2014)

5. HTML
• Abbreviation of HyperText Markup Language
• A computer language that is used to create
documents or Web sites on the Internet
(Merriam-Webster, accessed on February 3, 2014)

6. Podcast
• A program (as of music or talk) made available in
digital format for automatic download over the
Internet (Merriam-Webster, accessed on February
3, 2014)

7. Online Chat
• Any kind of communication over the Internet that
offers a real-time transmission of text messages
from sender to receiver (Wikipedia, accessed on
February 3, 2014)

8. VoIP
• A category 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
(webopedia.com, accessed on February 3, 2014)

9. WWW
• Abbreviation of “World-Wide-Web”
• A system of interlinked hypertext documents
accessed via the Internet (Wikipedia, accessed on
February 3, 2014)

10. Streaming
• Multimedia being played continuously as data is
sent to a computer over the Internet (MerriamWebster, accessed on February 3, 2014)

11. Blog
• A Web site that contains an online personal
journal with reflections, comments, and often
hyperlinks provided by the writer; also : the
contents of such a site (Merriam-Webster,
accessed on February 3, 2014)

12. Social Networking
• A a platform to build social networks or social
relations among people who, for example, share
interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life
connections (Wikipedia, accessed on February 3,
2014)

13. URL
• The address of a resource on the Internet that
consists of a communications protocol followed
by the name or address of a computer on the
network and that often includes additional
locating information (Merriam-Webster, accessed
on February 3, 2014)

14. Web Feed
• A data format used for providing users with
frequently updated content (Wikipedia, accessed
on February 3, 2014)

15. Information Sources
• Online Merriam-Webster Dictionary
▫ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
• Wikipedia
▫ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Webopedia
▫ http://www.webopedia.com/