This document defines and describes common online terminology. It provides definitions and explanations for terms like email, wikis, social bookmarking, HTML, podcasts, VoIP, online chat, the World Wide Web (WWW), streaming, blogs, social networking, URLs, and web feeds. Each term is concisely defined in one to two sentences with some including additional context about how the terminology is used online.
2. Email
O A process of transferring digital messages from a
writer to one or more readers
O Is typed messages that may can have documents,
pictures, or other files sent through a network to a
specified receiver or group of readers
3. Wiki
O A sample of server software that grants uses to
openly make and revise what is inside the web page
using any web browser
O Building block: COMMENTS from readers
4. Social Bookmarking
O An integrated online service which permits users to add,
comment, publish and share bookmarks of web content
O You are saving a website to your web to view it later
O You can easily share bookmarks with your friends because it is
online
5. HTML
O The central mark-up language for constructing web
pages and other data that can be showed in a web
browser
O Characterizes the format and draft of a document
through a collection of tags and attributes
6. Podcast
O The digital standard containing of an episodic
sequence of audio, video, PDF, or e-Pub files to
register to and downloaded by web association or
course online to a computer or mobile device
O The term “podcasting” is a portmanteau joining the
words “broadcasting” and “iPod.”
7. VoIP
O A procedure and group of technologies for the mailing
of voice connections and multimedia conference over
Internet Protocol (IP) networks, for example, the
Internet
O phone service over the Internet
8. Online Chat
O Any type of conversation over the internet that gives
an actual time to transmit text messages from sender
to receiver
O Can be private or public
9. WWW
O The order of interlinked hypertext documents
achieved by means of using the internet
O Contains all the public web sites linked to the
worldwide of internet, along with the user devices
(like computers and cell phones) that connects to a
web content.
10. Streaming
O A multimedia that is continually accepted by and
given to a final user while being forwarded by a
producer
O When you stream a file, you will get to tune in to it or
view it, but won't have the file on your computer to do
it later.
11. Blog
O A discourse or instructive site advertised on the
World Wide Web (WWW) and containing of various
course (“posts”) commonly showed in the most new
entries
O Is mostly an account that is accessible on the internet
12. Social Networking
O A social format formed of a group of social actors
(individuals and organizations) and a set of the binary
links among these actors
O A web site on the Internet that connects people
together in a place to talk, share beliefs, share
moments and or to make an acquaintance
13. URL
O A definite character string that creates a reference
to a resource
O A formatted text string used by web browsers, email
users and other software to identify a network
resource, files that can be plain web pages, text files,
pictures, or programs
14. Web Feed
O A data format used for giving users with constant
revised content
O Gives websites constantly "feed" you updates of their
new content