2. EMAIL
Short for electronic mail, the
transmission of messages over
communication networks. Some
electronic-mail systems are
confined to a single computer
system or network, but others
have gateways to other computer
systems, enabling users to send
electronic mail anywhere in the
world.
3. WIKI
A wiki is usually a
web application which
allows people to add,
modify, or delete content
in collaboration with
others. Text is usually
written using a simplified
markup language or a richtext editor.
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. Many online
bookmark management
services have launched since
1996; Delicious, founded in
2003, popularized the terms
"social bookmarking" and
"tagging".
5. HTML
Short for HyperText
Markup Language, the
authoring languageused to
create documents on the
World Wide Web. HTML
defines the structure and
layout of a Web document
by using a variety of tags
and attributes.
6. PODCAST
A podcast or netcast
is a digital medium
consisting of an episodic
series of
audio, video, PDF, or ePub
files subscribed to and
downloaded through web
syndication or streamed
online to a computer or
mobile device.
7. VoIP
The term VoIP stands for
voice over Internet
Protocol. VoIP is related to
the terms IP telephony and
Internet telephony, which
you'll be hearing more and
more about during the next
several years. VoIP has had a
lot of buzz and hype behind
it, though recently it has
lost a little of its steam.
8. ONLINE CHAT
It may refer to any kind of
communication over the Internet that
offers a real-time transmission of text
messages from sender to receiver. Chat
messages are generally short in order to
enable other participants to respond
quickly. Thereby, a feeling similar to a
spoken conversation is created, which
distinguishes chatting from other textbased online communication forms
such as Internet forums and email.
Online chat may address point-topoint communications as well as
multicast communications from one
sender to many receivers and voice and
video chat, or may be a feature of a
web conferencing service.
9. WWW
World Wide Web. Collection of
internet resources (such as FTP,
telnet, Usenet), hyperlinked text,
audio, and video files, and remote
sites that can be accessed and
searched by browsers based on
standards such as HTTP and
TCP/IP. Also called the web, it was
created in 1989 by the UK physicist
Tim Berners-Lee while working at
the European Particle Physics
Laboratory in Switzerland, as an
easier way to access information
scattered across the internet.
10. STREAMING
It is a method of relaying
data (esp. video and audio
material) over a computer
network as a steady
continuous stream,
allowing playback to
proceed while subsequent
data is being received.
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.
12. SOCIAL NETWORKING
The use of dedicated
websites and applications to
communicate informally
with other users, or to find
people with similar interests
to oneself.
13. URL
A uniform resource
locator, abbreviated as URL
(also known as web
address, particularly when
used with HTTP), is a
specific character string
that constitutes a reference
to a resource. In most web
browsers, the URL of a web
page is displayed on top
inside an address bar.
14. WEB FEED
A web feed (or news feed)
is a data format used for
providing users with
frequently updated
content. Content
distributors syndicate a
web feed, thereby allowing
users to subscribe to it.
Making a collection of
web feeds accessible in one
spot is known as
aggregation, which is
performed by an
aggregator.
