Web Terminology

Lorelei V. TolentinoBachelor of Secondary Education

Pontifical, Royal, Catholic University of Santo Tomas

E-mail

Electronic mail Replaced snail mail Early form of instant messaging

Wiki

“Collaborative Website” Allows users to freely edit any page

on a website

Social Bookmarking

Allows users to send bookmarks to friends

Generally used for business to business information

HTML

“Hyper-text Markup Language” Language in which web pages are

written in

Podcast

iPod broadCast Audio broadcast converted to MP3

for playback

VoIP

“Voice over Internet Protocol” Audio data will be sent through the

internet rather than the analog telephone lines

Online Chat

Any kind of communication over the internet

With real-time transmission from sender to the receiver

WWW

“World Wide Web” Subset of the internet Consists of pages that can be

accessed using a web browser

Streaming

Relaying audio or video data over the internet with a continuous stream

Allowing playback while subsequent data is being received

Blog

A personal website or webpage Users can write their own opinions,

personal activities and experiences

Social Networking

The use of internet-based social media programs to communicate

URL

“Uniform Research Locator” Sometimes called as “Internet

address” Standardized naming convention for

addressing documents accessible over the Internet

Web Feed

Also called as “news feed” Data format used for providing users

with frequently updated content

References

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