Common Online Terminologies

Corinne Ena CustodioBachelor of Secondary Education

University of Santo Tomas

EMAIL• A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over

a computer network.

• E-mail is asynchronous and does not require the receiver of the

message to be online at the time the message is sent or

received.

• E-mail also allows a user to distribute messages to large

numbers of recipients instantaneously.

Source: http://www.freedictionary.com

BLOG

• A Website containing the writer’s or group of writer’s own

experiences, observation, opinion etc.

• Commonly uses images and links to provide aesthetic sites.

Source: http://www.dictionary.com

Online Chat• May refer to any kind of communication over the Internet that

offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to

reciever.

• Similar to a spoken conversation is created but over internet

forums, emails, social networking sites etc.

Source: http://www.freedictionary.com

Social Bookmarking

• A centralized online service which enables users to add,

annotate, edit and share bookmarks of web documents.

• Doesn’t save the resources themselves but merely bookmarks

that reference them. (eg. A link to bookmarked page)

Source: http://www.freedictionary.com

URL

• Uniform Resource Locator

• Web Address

• A specific character string that constitutes a reference to a

resource.

• URL of a webpage is displayed on top inside an address bar.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/URL

Podcast

• A program (as of music or talk) made availale in digital format

for automatic download over the Internet.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/podcasthttp://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Web+feed

Web Feed

• A data format used for providing users with frequently updated

content.

Streaming

• A multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an

end- user while being delivered by a provider.

• A sequence of data over time.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Streaming

VoIP

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/understanding-what-voip-means.html

• A new technology that will improve the way we communicate.

• Voice transmitted over a digital network

• Referred to as IP telephony

• Uses internet protocols to make possible enhanced voice

communications.

Wiki

• A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone

who has access to it.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Wikihttp://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Social+Networking

Social Networking• A platform to build social networks or relations among people

according to their interests, backgrounds etc.

• Consists of representation for each user (profile).

WWW

• World Wide Web

• System of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via

Internet.

• Using a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain

multimedias such as text, pictures, videos etc. and navigate

through hyperlinks.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/WWW

HTML

• A computer language that is used to create Web Sites on the

Internet.

• A mark-up language that is used to create documents on the

World Wide Web incorporating text, graphics, sound, video, and

hyperlinks.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/html

Sources:• Wikipedia

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