Web logs, or blogs, have grown more and more popular as the internet becomes more interactive. It seems that everybody has their own blog, from teachers to college students to celebrities. So what is a blog exactly?
Well, a blog is a group of online written posts that are used to enlighten, interest or share experiences with other people. Some people write a blog for a specific audience, such as their friends, family, fellow students or for people who share a similar interest. A blog can serve many different purposes; some people use it for personal writing, rather like a journal or diary.
3g?
3G is a term you hear a great deal when talking about mobile phones, but what exactly does it mean?
3G actually stands for third generation, referring to the form of connection a mobile phone can make.
The first generation of mobile phones transmitted an analogue signal which was then replaced by a second generation of digital signals known as 2G.
The next step 2.5G an improvement on 2G, but it was the development of 3G that really pushed mobile phone technology forward.
3G was a major improvement as it had the capacity to carry higher amounts of data, therefore enabling 3G mobile phones to access the internet at reasonable speeds.
It is believed 3G phones are capable of downloading data at 384kb/s. This is the equivalent to downloading a song in around a minute, depending on signal strength you may experience slower speeds.
Ever heard of Bluetooth? (Sure you have)
Multimedia Messaging Service
Multimedia Messaging Service is used to send and receive messages containing multimedia content such as video, images, audio and text. Applications include personal messaging and delivery of paid content. The Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) provides the switching and network storage required to operate this service.
The concept of Multimedia Messaging Service is an extension of the SMS (short message service), which supports only text messaging.
URL
URL is a website address, whichever a domain name or a page, a good example of one which I use nearly every day is www.google.com, another one I use regularly is www.youtube.com. The term URL stands for uniform resource locator and is used frequently instead of the possible alternatives, such as web address, website address, web page address, and so on.
Appropriate language conventions for texting a friend
When texting a friend abbreviations are usually used to shorten the length of words while still conveying the intended message. Communication with a friend is informal thus making it appropriate to use such conventions as abbreviation, single letters/numbers and pictures. This style of language is also common on the Internet, including in email and instant messaging. An example of the most popular and widely used abbreviation is "LOL" which means laughing out loud. Most commonly you'll notice that the vowels are removed to shorten the word or single letters or numbers replace words eg. "be" becomes b, "to" becomes 2 or a combination of both, " tomorrow" becomes 2ma or 2moro.
Appropriate language conventions of emailing a colleague
Multimedia Messaging Service is used to send and receive messages containing multimedia content such as video, images, audio and text. Applications include personal messaging and delivery of paid content. The Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) provides the switching and network storage required to operate this service.
The concept of Multimedia Messaging Service is an extension of the SMS (short message service), which supports only text messaging.
URL
URL is a website address, whichever a domain name or a page, a good example of one which I use nearly every day is www.google.com, another one I use regularly is www.youtube.com. The term URL stands for uniform resource locator and is used frequently instead of the possible alternatives, such as web address, website address, web page address, and so on.
Appropriate language conventions for texting a friend
When texting a friend abbreviations are usually used to shorten the length of words while still conveying the intended message. Communication with a friend is informal thus making it appropriate to use such conventions as abbreviation, single letters/numbers and pictures. This style of language is also common on the Internet, including in email and instant messaging. An example of the most popular and widely used abbreviation is "LOL" which means laughing out loud. Most commonly you'll notice that the vowels are removed to shorten the word or single letters or numbers replace words eg. "be" becomes b, "to" becomes 2 or a combination of both, " tomorrow" becomes 2ma or 2moro.
Appropriate language conventions of emailing a colleague
When it comes to work relations we usually keep things formal as it is a business relationship and not a friendship, although you can be friends in any situation. When writing an email to a colleague we tend to stay well away from abbreviations and focus on full length sentences, correct grammar, structure and format. Now I could go and throw in a couple of examples but am I really here to give you an English lesson? (laughs)
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