The document defines and describes various avenues of internet communication. It explains email as a tool for attaching and sharing documents. It describes online chat as real-time text messaging between participants. It defines social bookmarking as a service that allows users to organize and share bookmarks through tagging. It provides brief explanations of URLs, streaming, podcasts, VoIP, wikis, social networking, the World Wide Web, HTML, and web feeds.
2. Email
* Referred as Electronic Mailing.
* A major tool for communicating nowadays.
* Can attach documents such as Documents,
Paper works and etc.
Examples are:
3. * 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.
* Its main purpose is for communicating online.
* Nowadays, it is one of the sources of
communication besides texting, calling and
emailing.
4. Social Bookmarking
*
Is a centralized online service which enables users
to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web
documents.
* Tagging is a significant feature of social
bookmarking systems, enabling users to organize
their bookmarks in flexible ways and develop shared
vocabularies known as folksonomies.
* In a social bookmarking system, users save links to
web pages that they want to remember and/or
share.
5. URL
* Uniform Resource Locator.
* A specific character string that constitutes a
reference to a resource.
* Are commonly used for web pages.
6. Streaming
* is multimedia that is constantly received by
and presented to an end-user while being
delivered by a provider.
* Refers to content delivered live over the
Internet.
* requires a camera for the media, an encoder
to digitize the content, a media publisher, and
a content delivery network to distribute and
deliver the content.
7. Podcast
* 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.
* Also known as ecast.
8. VoIP
* Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
* Commonly associated with IP telephony,
Internet telephony, voice over broadband
(VoBB), broadband telephony, IP
communications, and broadband phone service.
9. Wiki
* An example of a Search Engine.
* “Wiki” also means quick.
* Is usually a web application which allows
people to add, modify, or delete content in
collaboration with others.
10. Social Networking
* Is a platform to build social networks or social
relations among people who, for example,
share interests, activities, backgrounds or reallife connections.
* is possible in person, especially in the
workplace, universities, and high schools, it is
most popular online.
* websites are commonly used. These websites
are called social sites.
11. WWW
* Known as World Wide Web
* is a system of interlinked hypertext documents
accessed via the Internet.
* A proposal of Tim Berners Lee.
12. HTML
* Known as HyperText Markup Language.
* the main markup language for creating web
pages and other information that can be
displayed in a web browser.
* written in the form of HTML elements
consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets
(like <html>)
13. * An information format that provides users with
frequently updated content.
* A web feed is also sometimes referred to as
a syndicated feed.
* are operated by many news websites, weblogs,
schools, and podcasters.
