1. Common Online
Terminologies

2. Email
• Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as
email or e-mail.
• is a method of exchanging messages from any
person to one or more recipients.
• Modern email today can be used with the help
of the internet.

4. Wiki
• A wiki is a Web site that allows users to add
and update content on the site using their own
Web browser.
• A great example of a large wiki is the
Wikipedia.
• The term "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian
phrase, "wiki wiki," which means "super fast."

6. Social Bookmarking
• A social bookmarking service is a centralized
online service which enables users to
add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of
web documents.
• Social bookmarking does not save the
resources themselves.

8. HTML
• Stands for “Hyper-Text Markup Language.”
• Also known as hypertext documents
• Web pages must conform to the rules of
HTML in order to be displayed correctly in a
Web browser.

9. Podcast
• It is also called netcast
• It is a digital medium consisting of an episodic
series of audio, video, PDF files subscribed to
and downloaded through web syndication.
• It can be streamed online to a computer or
mobile device.

10. VoIP
• VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol.
• It is another way of making phone calls, with
the difference of making the calls cheaper or
completely free.

11. Online Chat
• It may refer to any kind of communication
over the internet that offers a realtime transmission of text messages from
sender to receiver.

12. WWW
• Stands for "World Wide Web.“
• The Web consists of pages that can be
accessed using a Web browser.

13. Streaming
• It is commonly seen in the forms of audio and
video streaming.
• It is when a multimedia file can be played back
without being completely downloaded first.

14. Blog
• Short for "Web Log," this term refers to a list
of journal entries posted on a Web page.
• Anybody who knows how to create and
publish a Web page can publish their own
blog.

15. Social Networking
• Social networking websites allow users to be
part of a virtual community.
• These websites provide users with simple tools
to create a custom profile with text and
pictures.

16. URL
• It stands for “Uniform Resource Locator.”
• It cannot have spaces or certain other
characters and uses forward slashes to denote
different directories.

17. Web Feed
• A web feed is also sometimes referred to as
a syndicated feed.
• It is a data format used for providing users
with frequently updated content.
• It is also called news feed.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
http://www.techterms.com/definition/wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
http://www.techterms.com/definition/html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
http://voip.about.com/od/voipbasics/a/whatisvoip.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat
http://www.techterms.com/definition/www
http://www.techterms.com/definition/streaming
http://www.techterms.com/definition/socialnetworking
http://www.techterms.com/definition/blog
http://www.techterms.com/definition/socialnetworking
http://www.techterms.com/definition/url
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed