The document defines and provides sources for definitions of common technology terms related to the internet and web including: email, wikis, social bookmarking, HTML, podcasts, VoIP, online chat, WWW, streaming, blogs, social networking, URLs, and web feeds. Each definition is 1-2 sentences and cites the source of the definition.
2. Email
A system for sending and
receiving messages
electronically over a
computer network, as
between personal
computers.
A message or messages sent
Source: The Free Dictionary
3. Wiki
a website that
allows anyone to add,
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delete, or revise
content by using a web
browser.
4. 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". Tagging is a
Source: Wikipedia
significant feature of social bookmarking
systems, enabling users to organize their
bookmarks in flexible ways and develop
shared vocabularies known as
folksonomies.
5. HTML
• HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the
main markup language for creating web pages
and other information that can be displayed in a
web browser.
• HTML is written in the form of HTML elements
consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets
(like <html>), within the web page content.
HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like
<h1> and </h1>, although some tags represent
empty elements and so are unpaired, for
example <img>.
• The first tag in a pair is the start tag, and the
second tag is the end tag (they are also called
opening tags and closing tags). In between
Source: WIkipedia
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. The word is a
neologism and portmanteau
Source: Wikipedia
derived from "broadcast"
and "pod" from the success of
the iPod, as audio podcasts
are often listened to on
7. VoIP
is a technology that allows telephone calls
to be made over computer networks like the
Internet. VoIP converts analog voice signals
into digital data packets and supports real-
Source: About.com
8. Online Chat
• 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 text-based online communication forms such as Internet
Source: Wikipedia
forums and email.
• Online chat may address point-to-point 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
The World Wide Web (abbreviated as
WWW or W3,[3] commonly known as the
web) is a system of interlinked hypertext
documents accessed via the Internet. With
a web browser, one can view web pages
that maySource: Wikipedia
contain text, images, videos, and
other multimedia and navigate between
them via hyperlinks.
10. Streaming
is multimedia that is
constantly received by and
presented to an end-user
while being delivered by a
provider. Its verb form, "to
stream", refers to the
process of delivering media
in this manner; the term
Source: Wikipedia
11. Blog
A blog (a truncation of the expression web log) is a discussion or
informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting
of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse
chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Until 2009
blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a
Source : Wikipedia
small group, and often covered a single subject.
12. Social Networking
platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for
example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections. A
social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a
profile), his social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network
services are web-based and provide means for users to interact over the
Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are
sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader
sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service
Source: networking sites
whereas online community services are group-centered. Social Wikipedia
allow users to share ideas, pictures, posts, activities, events, and interests with
people in their network.
13. URL
A uniform resource locator, abbreviated URL
(also known as web address, particularly
when used with HTTP), is a specific character
string that constitutes a reference to a
Source: Wikipedia
resource. In most web browsers, the URL of a
web page is displayed on top inside an
address bar.
14. Web 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. A
Source: Wikipedia
web feed is also sometimes referred to as a syndicated
