Essential Concepts

Learning some definitions!

In order for us to fully understand the podacasting world we have to know its terms.

So lets start!!

XML
The language they use tto create online sites. The definition of  webopidia is:
Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.


RSS
Is a file format that allows websites to share information for othe websites to publish, for example news, webopedias definition:

RSS stands for the facto standard for thesyndication of Web content. RSS is an XML-based format  used  in distributing news headlines on the Web.
A Web site that wants to allow other sites to publish some of its content creates an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher.

Jingle

A short audio which is used to create especial effects or backgrounds, such as those tunes preceding the news.

"to sound in a light, repetitious manner suggestive of this, asverse, a sequence of words, or piece of music."




Stinger

A stinger is a brief sound or musical phrase that may be used as "audio punctuation."



MP4

MP4 is a file format created by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as a multimedia container format designed to store audiovisual data. The MP4 is largely replacing earlier multimedia file formats, and creating some changes in the way that vendors sell audiovisual files to the public.



MPX


MPX Microsoft Project File Exchange Format is a file format developed by Microsoft for sharing project data with other project management applications.