This document defines and explains common online terminology used on the internet. It provides definitions for terms like email, social networking, blogs, online chat, social bookmarking, URL, streaming, wiki, HTML, podcast, VoIP, WWW, and web feeds. Each term is concisely defined in a paragraph with examples provided for some terms. Links to additional online resources are included at the end for further reading.
2. Email
Email or e-mail stands for Electronic
Mail. It is a method of exchanging
digital messages from an author to
one or more receiver or recipients .
Modern email operates across
the internet or other computer
networks.
3. SOCIAL
NETWORKING
Social Networking has become very
popular during the past few
years, but it can still be very difficult
to understand for someone new to
social networking. The open-ended
nature of social networks add to
this. Once signed onto a social
network, having answered a few
basic profile questions, it is easy to
sit back and wonder what you are
supposed to do next.
4. BLOG
A blog is a discussion or informational site
published on the World Wide Web and
consisting of discrete entries or
posts, typically it is displayed in reverse
chronological order.
5. Online Chat
An Online Chat refers to a communication
between two people over the internet.
Through Online Chat two people that are
away from each other may have a
conversation easily.
6. Social
Bookmarking
A social bookmarking service is a centralized online
service that enables users to add, edit, and
share bookmarks of web documents.
One significant feature of social bookmarking
systems is Tagging. Through Tagging users can
organize their bookmarks in flexible ways.
7. URL
URL stands for Uniform
Resource Locator,
previously Universal
Resource Locator. It refers
is the unique address for a
file that is accessible on the
Internet. One common way
to get in to a website is by
entering the URL of
its home page file in your
web browser's address
line.
8. STREAMING
Streaming or also known as media
streaming is a technique for transferring
data so that it can be processed as a
steady and continuous stream.
Streaming technologies are becoming
increasingly important with the growth
of the Internet now a days because most
of the users do not have fast enough
access to download
large multimedia files quickly. In
streaming, the client browser can
immediately start displaying the data
before the entire file has been
transmitted.
9. WIKI
A wiki is usually a web application which
allows people to modify, add, or delete
content in collaboration with others. Text
is usually written using a simplified mark
up language or a rich-text editor.
It is a type of content management
system, it differs from a blog or most
other such systems in that the content is
created without any defined owner or
leader, and wikis have little implicit
structure, allowing structure to emerge
according to the needs of the users.
10. HTML
HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark up
Language. It is the main mark up
language for creating web pages and
other information that can be seen
displayed in a web browser.
It is written in the form of html
elements consisting of tags enclosed
in angle brackets, within the web page
content. HTML tags most commonly
come in pairs like <h1> and </h1.
11. PODCAST
A podcast or also known
as netcast. It is a digital
medium consisting of an
episodic series
of audio, video, PDF, or ePub
files subscribed to and can
be downloaded through web
syndication or streamed
online to a computer or
mobile device.
12. VoIP
VoIP stands for Voice over Internet
Protocolis. It is a methodology and group
of technologies for the delivery of voice
communications and multimedia session
s over Internet Protocol (IP)
networks, such as the Internet. Other
terms commonly associated with VoIP
are IP telephony, Internet
telephony, voice over
broadband (VoBB), broadband
telephony, IP
communications, and broadband phone
service.
13. WWW
WWW stands for World
Wide Web.
It is a collection of blogs,
videoes, social media and
internet resources
It is a primary server.
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. A web feed is also
sometimes referred to as a syndicated feed.
