SPECIAL AWARD FOR FRIENDS

I’ve just got this nice award from Vina(surabaya). It’s nice to have this award. These are the rules of the award:

1) Put the logo on your blog.
2) Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4) Add links to those blogs on yours.
5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

These are the next nominees: erwin, lia, woelan, iko,bang dhika, isnuansa, sayur.

Get your Trip in Australia

Went on holiday in the Australian continent was the very pleasant matter. Saw the attraction of the culture as well as the diversity of the flora and the original fauna from the Australiam continent. Australia with the original ethnic group aborigines became the attraction of the tourism field. Diligence and the traditional house aborigines's ethnic group had the attraction for tourists.

The city that was interesting to in visited was Sydney. Watched the performance in the Sydney Opera House and Australian Ballet Dinner Packege. Made the atmosphere to be romantic with enjoyed sunset in the coast. Spent the night in Sydney too much was not difficult. Many Sydney Hotels that was cheap and that close to the Airport and the tourist attraction.

The further trip was to Melbourne. Enjoyed the attraction of the Fauna in the Melbourne Zoo. Visited to the Melbourne Museum that captured. And enjoyed the city tonight in an over-nighting manner in Melbourne Hotels.

Australia indeed captured. Perth was his proof. The atmosphere of the night in Perth was very beautiful. The high building and the light from the Perth Hotels along the coast made the atmosphere become romantic. Don't forget to visit Brisbane. You could see the Kangaroo but also visited the Moreton island. The Brisbane hotel many and cheap. And enjoyed City Botanical Garden in the afternoon before spending the night in Brisbane Hotels. Enjoy the holiday with your couple in Australia, and felt beauty as well as the ease of his accommodation.

Get your Trip in United Kingdom

United Kingdom was the country that was very famous with Fashion Model and the Tourist Attraction. Moreover the English League also to icon international football. London was the Central Mode City in England. Enjoyed fashion mode and dinner in London Hotels was the aim of the tour in England. There are much more cheap hotels in London. Strat from USD$ 26 you can enjoyed your night in London.

The city mode apart from London was Paris. Paris was also famous with the Eifel Tower that was French's pride. You can enjoyed Romantic night at this place. How about accommodation in Paris? Hotels in Paris was very cheap, only with USD$211 he could spend the night in the three star class Hotel. The location of the hotel also close to the tourist attraction.

Manchester was the second city that must be visited if going on a trip to United Kingdom. The very grand city, but also famous with club football. Moreover also the ease of accommodation made this city comfortable for tourists. Many Hotels in Manchester that could be covered by you from airport closest. For travellers seeking a balance of comfort and value for money, three-star accommodation starts at USD$71.00 for a room at the Swallow Bower Hotel, conveniently situated at Hollinwood Avenue Chadderton Greater Manchester OL9 8DE.

Apart from Manchester and London, you might not forget Birmingham. Birmingham is considered the Pittsburgh of the South and was born out of the Steel Industry which was hit very hard during the Great Depression. At one point 100,000 of the 108,000 people who lived in Birmingham were found unemployed!! This is by far the best place in Birmingham to take pictures of the city, it was beautiful and fun! No tourist should leave the city of Birmingham when first visiting the Vulcan. From Vulcan Park you can found more Hotels in Birmingham. For travellers seeking a balance of comfort and value for money, three-star accommodation starts at USD$87.00 for a room at the Norfolk Hotel Birmingham, conveniently situated at 267 Hagley Road Birmingham B16 9NA.

Wonderfull Traveling Acomodation in Eropa

When seeing the site My Highschool friendster site , there I saw several photographs he was going on a trip to Paris. After that I saw him was online in Yahoo Massanger. I asked him how he could go to Paris? Evidently he departed for Paris because of going along made software Network in IBM. After that I ask him about Paris.

During in Paris he visited the Eiffel tower and several other interesting places. How about accommodation in Paris? Evidently he spent the night in Balmoral Hotel Paris. Paris hotels was very cheap, only with USD$211 he could spend the night in the three star class Hotel. The location of the hotel also close to the tourist attraction.

The tour trip in Europe continued to the Netherlands. The destination especially is Amsterdam. There was no problem for accommodation, because many popular Amsterdam hotels that could in made the choice. And only with USD$73 he could spend the night in Marnix Hotel Amsterdam that was located in 382 of Marnixstraat Amsterdam 1016.

The trip to Europe was not yet complete if not visiting Italy. The romantic city was Venice, that was famous with the beautiful Hotel and captured. Venice became the choice because of Venice Hotels very cheap. Beginning with USD$46 in Alla Giustizia Hotel venice, that was located in Via Miranese 111 Venice Mestree 30171. But if wanting to enjoy best Venice accommodation, you could try San Clemente Palace Venice with USD$271, a five stars the hotel.

Apart from Venice as the aim of the tour, you could try to the Rome city. The city that was famous with the gladiator but also the architecture Building that captured. Don't think about accommodation and accommodation, because in many Rome Hotels with the cheap price to spend the night. The Rome hotels was apparently elegant with typical classic Italy architecture. Please City Centre Colosseum the Hotel. Offering a good location, the Soggiorno Comfort B&B Rome invites all type of guests for a pleasant and wonderful stay in Rome.LocationThe hotel is situated in the heart of the historical centre.

Sandra Dewi Blog

Yah sekarang ini banyak sekali artis yang mulai ngeblog, dan artis baru yang cukup booming di internet seperti Sandra Dewi pun mulai menjajaki dunia Blog. Mungkin karena marah gara-gara foto bugilnya tersebar di internet karena ulah orang yang iseng, membuat si artis mencoba berperang dengan cara terjun ke dunia internet lewat Blog. Dan anda pun bisa melihatnya di sini.

Weblog dengan warna merah muda yang cukup cantik, di dukung oleh Wordpress engine dan sedikit sentuhan flash membuat blog ini cukup nyaman untuk dikunjungi, walaupun content dalam blog ini hanyalah kegiatan si Sandra Dewi, namun cukup kuat untuk menarik pengunjung untuk berkomentar di blog ini terbukti di tiap postingannya paling sedikit 30 komentar.

Sebuah wacana yang paling menarik adalah dengan menggunakan keyword sandra dewi bisa menaikkan pagrank blog anda.

Lelah

Setelah lelah berjalan dan mengais rizki di sekitar bundaran simpang lima, nenek paruh baya ini tidur di taman pinggir jalan di depan masjid Baiturrahman Semarang

Perfect Lighting with Beauty

Had the house with the very beautiful interior was special pride from the owner. The design of the interior that captured will be felt not all that if being not supported by the perfect light order. Because the aspect of beauty will be from the design of the interior felt complete if in supported by lighting that was perfect.

Perfection from the light order not merely lighting, but also beauty will from the form of light that was used give the amazing impression. Because of that Farrey was to give the solution for beauty of art lighting in your house. One fine art lighting will give classic beauty in your house because was produced in a handcraft manner. If the design of your house was minimalis modern then forecast lighting very exact for your order of the house light.

The support from lighting that in accordance with the design of the house will give the design perfection. With hinkley lighting touch the impression minimalis modern really will be seen in your house. Farrey gave many choices of beauty of light as your house accessories. Was supported by kichlersebagai the producer of foremost light and still many others the designer like George kovacs was guaranteed you were satisfied to choose light that was wanted by you.

Toaster Oven For Your Kitchen

Cooked in the house was the pleasant matter. Enjoyed the week end with the agenda cooked could become entertainment and special satisfaction. For example by making the cake or only to roast bread in the morning with a little coffee as the drink of the colleague.

To facilitate you brought about the wish on the end of the week, then was not mistakenly if you had one toaster oven in the kitchen. With white bread and a little cheese or a little pineapples jam will make toast to was glad. With toaster oven you could become a competent cook for the serving of toast that was suitable as breakfast.

To buy toatser this oven entrusted in wise.com, because enough of the houses and continuation of your internet could shop online for toaster oven. Shared the choice was available here, but also product that in sold already in review and in the ranking, so as to facilitate you to choose.
From now on prepared one toaster oven in your house.

The Best Digital camera for Your hobby

Had the photography hobby of being very pleasant, moreover if beginning to go to look for the object of the exact picture and appropriate time. Results of the photograph that we took gave special satisfaction for our heart happiness, and if that in enjoyed together the other person then would mambuat we were satisfied. In the world of photography, the main weapon that was needed was a camera. Moreover our expertise in using the camera also will give good results

At this time a digital camera has often been used. Various kinds and the make also made us have a headache to determine the camera that was appropriate for us. If you were confused to choose the digital camera, then was suggested by me to try vivitar digital cameras. Already many kinds and the type that could be chosen by you from this product. Vivitar Digital cameras gave the price that was appropriate and appropriate in the pocket if you want a cheap camera but with the good quality.

Information about the product vivitar digital cameras this could be seen by you in this site. From this site in gave review that detai about the superiority product from vivitar digital camera this togethered with the price. All the products already in the ranking so as to facilitate you to choose camera digital that was appropriate. So chose vivitar digital camera as your mainstay weapon in photography.

GPS is the Most Tools for Us

As a person of TNP (Transmission Network Planing) that worked with various sorts vendor but also the operator, occasionally I was very confused with the problem of the co-ordination with the operator. One of my works was Site Check, where we checked site and recorded the data all available in site (Tower perator).For the address site never in gave, and only Latitude co-ordinates and longitude that was given. In this way to was difficult very much to find site that was meant. One of the implements that really helped me in found site this was GPS.

At this time already plenty of kinds from GPS devices that was available. From that was simplest to outbond to that was most sophisticated. GPS devices also was available in the form of that was appropriate for your car, with the design that captured. The GPS existence devices in your car really will help you if was berpergian. Because in GPS this also could have put forward the map of the territory where we were, down to details of the smallest road in city.Support from the number of satellites made the co-ordinate and the elevation of the place where we were gave very accurate information. The Source folder that was available in GPS made the process of the transfer to PC or Laptop was the main matter that was needed by me to work as TNP.

That made us confused to be how we got or he explained bought GPS devices that agreed for us. Wize.com was one of the online shops that sold various things of GPS devices. In this site of various sorts devices already in review but also in the ranking was based on the price and his superiority. This will really help you in choosing GPS devices that agreed and in accordance with your requirement. Entrust all of them only in wize.com.

Effects of Stress

What is stress

Stress is a part of daily life. Everyone has stress. Some people appear to have more stress than others. Stress is one way we react to specific events in our life. There are times when you might feel that too much is happening at once and feel overwhelmed. Other times, you feel the pressure of time or a deadline and realize you need to take care of something before it is too late. Having been in a similar situation before will create anxiety. How we perceive a situation will effect how we respond to it. There is good stress and bad stress.

Good stress can be a motivator. Knowing that you have an obligation to address and a timeframe. That type of stressor puts you into action in order to meet a deadline. Or you might be in an unexpected situation where you need to make a split second response in order to avoid danger. This could be slamming your foot on the brake to avoid an accident. Anticipation of a competition or performance will cause tension and nervousness prior to the event. This nervousness is due to an increased flow of adrenaline going through your body. Your body is preparing for the “fight or flight” syndrome. The release of adrenaline prepares your body to take the steps to deal with the situation, including improved focus, strength, stamina and heightened alertness.

People also have bad stress in their lives. Whether we perceive a situation as being stressful or not depends on previous experiences. One person might see being in a multi tasking job as very stressful, feeling overwhelmed and becoming anxious about their work. Another person might find multi tasking enjoyable because they continue to stay busy and time goes by faster. Your body is capable of dealing with stress for short periods of time. When the stress is ongoing i.e. dealing with a divorce or bankruptcy, this can wear a person down. Long term stress contributes to feeling tired, overwhelmed and contributes to lowered immunity.

The body’s reactions to stress

Once you view something as being stressful, whether positive or negative, your body reacts to that perception. The response is a survival technique and a defense mechanism. The reaction is referred to as the “fight or flight” response. Either you are going to fight the attacker or you will choose to flee from the threat. This includes increased heart rate and blood pressure, perspiration, hearing and vision become more acute and hands and feet might become colder since blood is being directed to larger muscles in preparation for a fight or to flee. Your body is being prepped to handle the situation. When the threat is over, your body will return to normal.

If your body has difficulty returning to normal, then you would experience stress overload. This is when you stress out too much or have ongoing stress in your life and never get a chance to relax. Pressure in your life might be too intense or go on for too long without a break. People that have experienced trauma are likely to have stress overload. If trauma is not resolved then you might become hypervigilant, a sense of being overly aware of possible danger. You might always be “on guard.” Stress overload has an emotional and physical effect on the body. This could include panic attacks, depression, sleep problems, physical pain i.e. headaches and allergies as well as abuse of alcohol or other drugs. Having unresolved trauma will effect your perception. Situations that might not have caused tension prior to the trauma can have the ability to create anxiety after the trauma. Becoming aware of how your perception has changed and seeking support to address the trauma issue can be helpful to reduce ongoing stressors and to reduce anxiety. Seeking counseling that focuses on cognitive perceptions will help to decrease hypervigilance and will help to reduce the likelihood of continuing to be retraumatized. In addition, your body has memory of the event as well. Being able to release that reaction to the memory of the event from your body will help to reduce stress overload and triggers.

Stress and control

Stress is contributed to the desire to be in control. This not only includes control over yourself, but control over other people and your environment. Trying to control others and your environment, however, is impossible. You only have control over your own thoughts and actions. In order to relieve stress and anxiety it is important to let go of trying to control things outside of yourself. We are unable to foresee the future and cannot control what events will happen next. Focusing on future potential problems contributes to anxiety. On the other hand, people are able to prepare for things that might occur and have a plan of how you would like to respond to events. This could be as simple as having a repair kit in your car for getting a flat tire or preparation for an interview and the questions that might be asked during the interview process.

Part of living life is that things always change. Change is normal. How you perceive something will impact how you react to it. This is where the fight or flight reaction occurs. You can decide to be proactive and address the situation. Making a choice to take care of things when they occur. Or you can expend a lot of energy avoiding issues and letting them build. Taking action will actually help to reduce stress and anxiety in the long run. In addition, there will be a feeling of empowerment as you begin to deal with problems as they arise. Trust your intuition and creatively think of all ways you could resolve the issue at hand. Even if you try to tackle a problem and don’t succeed, you could then view this as a temporary setback. Review what happened and try to approach it differently. Setbacks can be temporary. Find who your friends are and develop a support system. Another option is to seek counseling in order to have someone that is impartial as part of your support system. You don’t have to always take care of problems by yourself. Ask your friends, counselor or other support persons what they think about a situation. They might have ideas that you would not think of on your own. Learning to address problems as they occur will help you to change your perception of things from problems to challenges. Doing so will continue to help you build your sense of self esteem and empowerment. Identifying challenges as they occur, developing a plan to deal with the challenge, asking others for their point of view, taking action and keeping focus on the goal you are working toward will help to strengthen your resiliency.

Steps to reduce stress

Each one of us is a unique individual and we all have different experiences throughout our lives that affect our perception. What might be a stressful event for one person, might not be viewed as stressful for someone else. In addition, some activities are more stressful than others. Self care including eating well and getting enough sleep are important for stress reduction. Making time for doing activities that are relaxing is preventative to reducing stress overload. Relaxation is important, but there is no one right way to relax. Some people find that sleeping or going to the beach is relaxing. Others choose to be involved in an enjoyable activity or hobby as a way of relaxing. The goal is to find an activity that allows you to escape from everyday worries and problems. There is no right way to do that. Relieving stress can be done by meditation, exercise or doing an activity. Making the time to care for yourself is a priority that helps to reduce stress overload.

As you focus on making positive change in your life that will help to reduce stress and anxiety, be forgiving of yourself if you don’t resolve your problems immediately. Being critical of yourself is very easy to do, especially when people close to you have been critical of you for a long period of time. That critical voice can be very loud when you don’t get it right the first time. A suggestion is a positive response to the changes you are trying to make and to be forgiving of yourself when things don’t go perfectly as planned. These are some suggestions that might work or to come up with your own.

 “As things develop, I will, through listening to guidance from my unconscious, adapt to changing circumstances and grow with them.”

 “I may not get what I want when I want it; I trust that things will work out in their own good time, for my ultimate benefit, as long as I remain calm and peaceful.”

 “I may not get what I want at all, and yet, in remaining calm and attentive, I may discover something else that I need even more than what I thought I wanted.”

How you perceive a situation will affect how you respond. Whether you choose to address the issue or to avoid it. If you have a negative perception then you are more likely to experience anxiety and not be able to effectively take care of the problem. This will then reinforce that you have no control over the outcome and reinforce the perception of being helpless. On the other hand, a positive perception will help you to find a way to deal with the challenge you are presented with. If you choose to take responsibility for your feelings and actions then you are more likely to have a positive outcome. This will reinforce the sense of resiliency and empowerment. Breaking old patterns of behavior is difficult, especially when trying to do it by yourself. Being willing to look at yourself and to identify changes you would like to make takes a lot of energy and time. The more effort you put into making a positive lifestyle change, the greater the feeling of accomplishment you will experience. Develop a support system, whether family, friends or a counselor. Having someone that helps you to make positive change will increase the likelihood that the change will be long term instead of temporary.

Web 2.0? Or Is It More Like Web 16.0?

It has become difficult to keep up with the meanings of all the new phrases and terms generated by modern technology. One of the most commonly used phrases on the world wide web (www) today is "Web 2.0." It seems like every web solutions company is using this phrase to sell its stuff. So to the average Joe who's not a geek, what is "Web 2.0"?

Well according to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia…

"[T]he phrase Web 2.0 can refer to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies [collaborative tagging schemes] — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users. The term gained currency following the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use webs. According to Tim O'Reilly, 'Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.' Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of 'Web 2.0' have existed since the early days of the W!
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There is no doubt the www has advanced significantly since inception, but there really is no new version of the www. It is simply much more useful to the everyday person.

However, if we counted each major innovation as a whole number and each minor revision as a tenth, we would already be into double digits. So why are we calling it "Web 2.0"?

If you have seen the latest Die Hard movie, or ever bought software for your computer, you will understand why we are not in Web 2.0. Even if we call it Die Hard 4.0 or MS Office 2007, it's still basically the same movie or tool. So what we are really experiencing now is more like Web 16.0.

If you have an in-depth, honest conversation with your web designers, they will tell you that Web 2.0 is a myth. So to explain how we got to Web 16.0, here's a history of the most significant events on the www.

WEB 0.1 -- 1958 – SAGE – Radar systems are first networked
WEB 0.2 -- 1960 – Packet switching is first created

WEB 1.0 – EMAIL – "A New Way to Send Unsolicited Mail Is Born"

Although the exact history of Email is a tad murky, it is generally accepted that it appeared in 1965, and was created so that people accessing a mainframe could communicate with each other. This was the first step in the interconnection of people, facilitating almost instant communication at no cost to the user.

WEB 1.1 -- 1967 – Markup language is created
WEB 1.2 -- 1969 – ARPA – A link is established between computers
WEB 1.3 -- 1696 – ARPA Net – First packet-switched network created

WEB 2.0 – WYSIWYG – "What You See Is What You Get (sometimes)"

With the invention of WYSIWYG in 1970, users could now be presented with a basic display of what their finished product would look like, as they were working on it. This removed the need to memorize complex code.

WEB 2.1 -- 1970 – ASP – First Application Service Provider (SAAS)
WEB 2.2 -- 1970 – Style sheets are created
WEB 2.3 -- 1971 – @ is created to separate hosts and users
WEB 2.4 -- 1973 – TCP/IP is created to simplify networking
WEB 2.5 -- 1973 – First connection to another country established
WEB 2.6 -- 1974 – The term "Internet" is adopted
WEB 2.7 -- 1976 – X.25 – The first network standard is approved
WEB 2.8 -- 1978 – International packet switching service created

WEB 3.0 – USENET– "The Black Market of the Internet"

Usenet was established in 1980 to offer mail and file transfers as well as give personal users access to news. Usenet is in fact a large network of servers all in communication with each other; a user posts something to the local server and that item is passed along to the other servers. Usenet was a major turning point because users could finally have an open conversation with anyone on the net, without needing to specifically know the user (unlike Email). The downside is that with a sometimes un-policed net capable of file transfers, the Usenet of today is a haven for piracy of all types, where anything you can imagine is accessible.

WEB 3.1 -- 1979 – Email is made available to personal computer users, millions of Nigerian Princes suddenly need public help

WEB 4.0 – REAL TIME CHAT – Going Outside Deemed "Obsolete"

Real-Time Chat was created in 1980 following users' frustrations with Usenet articles sometimes taking 24 hours to be updated. This signaled a turning point: online conversations became instant, albeit isolated into segregated groups.

WEB 4.1 -- 1980 – First ISPs created providing dialup internet
WEB 4.2 -- 1981 – TCP/IP becomes a standard
WEB 4.3 -- 1981 – US/Europe/Canada/Hong-Kong/Australia connect
WEB 4.4 -- 1983 – TCP/IP becomes the only standard
WEB 4.5 -- 1983 – First wide area network using TCP/IP operational
WEB 4.6 -- 1985 – FTP – The File Transfer Protocol is created
WEB 4.7 -- 1988 – IRC – Internet Relay Chat is created
WEB 4.8 -- 1988 – Bulletin Board Systems and Forums created

WEB 5.0 – HTML/HTTP/Web Pages – "It Has Begun…"

Around 1980, many researchers were using the internet, but they had no single way to create/display "documents" (web pages). Physicist Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues needed a simple system for creating/displaying documents, but found that existing systems were too commercial, platform-specific or complicated for the average user. So they created their own relatively simple system, consisting of browsing software called "WorldWideWeb," a protocol for transmitting the information (HTTP) and a document annotation convention called "Hyper Text Markup Language" (HTML). This meant anyone could now create web pages using their simple language.

WEB 5.1 -- 1989 – Images can now be animated, oh the horror!
WEB 5.2 -- 1990 – The network now covers the entire world (publicly)

WEB 6.0 – Search – "Did You Mean: Google?"

Before 1990, there was no way to find a page; you had to know the specific location. Around 1991, search engines began indexing (storing) the content they found, giving users the ability to search for a page even if they didn't know the page's location.

WEB 6.1 -- 1991 – DNS – Dynamic Naming System is created
WEB 6.2 -- 1991 – The first text-based browser is created

WEB 7.0 – DHTML – "Because Non-Scrolling Text Is Boring"

The web was static until Dynamic HTML (DHTML) was created. DHTML introduced client-side scripting, allowing authors to include code in their web pages that performed an action upon being downloaded onto a user's computer. DHTML introduced rollover buttons and drop-down menus on web pages. It goes a long way to making the web more personalized.

WEB 7.1 -- 1993 – The first graphics based browsers are created
WEB 7.2 -- 1993 – Screen casts are first created
WEB 7.3 -- 1994 – Wikis are created; Britannica begins holding its breath
WEB 7.4 -- 1994 – The World Wide Web Consortium is formed
WEB 7.5 -- 1994 – CSS – Cascading Style Sheets created

WEB 8.0 – ONLINE DIARIES – "Teens Reportedly Misunderstood"

Online diaries were first created in 1994 as a means for people to store their diaries online for personal or public reading. Writers could now reach almost anyone worldwide at practically no cost, and everyone could create editorials on whatever subjects they liked, without fear of censorship.

WEB 8.1 -- 1996 – The first social bookmarking site created

WEB 9.0 – RANKED RESULTS – "The Online Popularity Contest"

Search engine results helped find things, but many of the results were useless or had nothing to do with the keywords used. As of 1996, search results started to be ranked based on a multitude of things, like how popular a page is. This made searching faster and easier, and significantly less painful.

WEB 9.1 -- 1996 – Flash is created, whole websites can now be animated
WEB 9.2 -- 1997 – The term "Blog" is adopted

WEB 10.0 – HIRED BLOGGERS – "Wow Isn't Product X Great!"

As of 1997, personal diaries began to evolve to what became known as "blogs." Many corporate websites and personal homepages had (and still do have) news sections, these were traditionally updated manually in a back-end system. With the advent of blogs, the commercial sector jumped in, seeing a new marketing medium.

WEB 10.1 -- 1998 – The first audio news site is created
WEB 10.2 -- 1999 – The first web-based operating system is created

WEB 11.0 – RSS – "Newspapers Deemed Obsolete"

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) was created due to the lack of a universal feed format. The creation of RSS means that users could now "subscribe" to feeds containing video, audio, text, or graphics. Users no longer had to trawl the web for new information, they could "subscribe" to a feed and have it sent to them directly.

WEB 12.0 – REMOTE SCRIPTING – "Waiting For 4 Seconds Now History!"

Remote scripting allows scripts running inside a browser to exchange information with a server, so that scripts could be triggered locally, processed remotely and have information returned directly to the browser. This made the web faster and easier to use, and removed the need to refresh the page for simple tasks like sorting.

WEB 12.1 -- 2001 – Blogs evolve from online diaries

WEB 13.0 – PODCASTING – "Now Everyone Can Avoid Listening To You By Choice Rather Than Circumstance!"

Podcasting originated as a portmanteau of the iPod® and broadcasting, although "portable on demand broadcasting" has now become the widely-accepted definition. Originally Podcasting was created to allow individuals to distribute their own radio shows, but it has become popular for a wide variety of things, from educational materials to the latest gaming news. Podcasting opens up distribution of audio content to anyone with a server, with users "subscribing" to the RSS feeds that appeal to them.

WEB 13.1 -- 2002 – Folksonomy is created, giving rise to "tags"

WEB 14.0 – VIDEO PODCASTING – "Web-Based One-Sided Conversations"

Shortly after Podcasting became popular, video Podcasting was created as a means to send the equivalent of TV episodes to users. Though similar to podcasting, the content was not limited to just "TV episodes". Video Podcasting opens up the video medium so that making a TV show is possible for anyone.

WEB 15.0 – VOIP – "High Tech, Dodgy Sounding Free Calls"

With the Voice Over Internet Protocol, telephone audio is sent over the internet, rather than a traditional phone line. This removes almost all cost involved, and also removes the need to have a physical phone line. What this means for consumers is calling becomes much simpler, easier and significantly cheaper.

WEB 16.0 – SAAS – "The Industry Makes a SaaS of Itself."

Software as a Service (SaaS) is just a new term for a concept that has been around since the dawn of the internet (ASP from 1970). SaaS refers to using a piece of software run/provided through the internet, and instead of paying a large one-off purchase price, you "rent" the software for as long as needed. So while SaaS is the buzzword of the day, the concept is decades old.

..The CONCLUSION?

So if you follow the basic rule that each total upgrade is a new ".0" then we are nowhere near Web 2.0. The story is really one of falling price, increasing reliability and bandwidth, coupled with ubiquitous access.

Simply put, "Web 2.0" is just shorthand for the development process outlined above. Bottom line, the web really becoming what the web really always should have been.