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Web 2.0 Summit: The players and the products
The Web 2.0 Conference/Summit gets underway today in San Francisco, and I will be posting from there.
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For a refresher on what is Web 2.0, check out O'Reilly's treatise from a year ago. In that definitional work, O'Reilly described the core competencies of Web 2.0 companies:
- Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
- Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
- Trusting users as co-developers
- Harnessing collective intelligence
- Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
- Software above the level of a single device
- Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models
At the end of the conference, we'll see if those items have change, and an attempt to define Web 3.0, which should be interesting...
Stay tuned for more coverage this week.