Most Internet users moved quietly, unknowingly, from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. In simple terms, Web 1.0 is just the simple static website you create to dish out information. You, the owner of the site can make changes to your site when you like. All visitors to your site can do is just consume the information you put on your site.

Along came Web 2.0, with more flexibility, users do not just visit your site to view information you dished out, they can interact with your contents, add, remove, manipulate and contribute to your contents, popularly know as user generated web, some Web 2.0 examples includes YouTube, MySpace, Facebook etc.

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BBC unveiled iPlayer service. A services that allows you to download and watch all BBC programme. A spokes person for BBC described the iPlayer services as the “Biggest change in the way we watch TV since the introduction of Colour TV 40 years ago”

t took BBC about three years to develop iPlayer. Once iPlayer is installed on a PC, user can download most BBC programmes to local storage device, however downloaded programmes will automatically be deleted from a user’s PC after seven days. BBC said this measure is to protect BBC and its suppliers copyright.

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Most webmasters have a wireless network system in their home. One of UK WW member who is also a network engineer wrote and fascinating and useful guide to
securing your wireless network. Excerpts from the article below.

Since the year 2001, wireless networking has become very popular. Nearly every home has a wireless network or is in the process of setting one up. But what’s the main risk with wireless networks, it is SECURITY. There have been thousands of lectures, tutorials and media coverage about the importance of securing a wireless network but it seems that this has had no affect on wireless network users.

But what about SECURITY, why don’t people bother to protect their wireless networks and use their credit card online when they are aware that their wireless network may not be secure. Reasons why people do not secure their wireless networks include:

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we have barely settled into Web 2.0 and there are already talks of Web 3.0, one of UK Webmaster world forum members started his vision of what Web 3.0 should look like in and interesting post, bits from the post can be read below, the full post can be found here.

In recent times, Microsoft was praised for its new openness towards open source and other software standards other than its own, however its recent efforts to fast track acceptance of its Office open XML is not going down well in some quarters. The paragraph below summarise the felling of the Open source community to MS’s drive.An online petition posted by Microsoft to fast-track the standardization of its Office Open XML document format masks the company’s concern over the procedure, according to a leading open-source advocate.
The petition is an attempt to make it appear that Open XML has “pseudo-grassroots” support, argues Mark Taylor, the founder of the Open Source Consortium.
“In the open-source world, there’s clearly a massive grassroots thing,” Taylor told ZDNet UK on Thursday. “One of the lessons Microsoft has been trying to learn from open source is that–but they have to fake it. If there was any grassroots support behind it, the time to have done (the petition) would have been ages ago.”

Source of the above quote and full story can be found here.

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