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Web 2.0 moves into the mainstream.
It is classic Web 2.0: entirely server-based, with features including easy web authoring and blogging, a shareable personal calendar, web email, groups, forums, and a focus on independent music. The Gnarls Barkley number one shows how such sites have an economic and social significance.
Still, the Web 2.0 hype does feel like a bubble, fascinating for a small minority of internet obsessives, but not important to the average business. I put this argument to Web 2.0 guru and publisher Tim O’Reilly, the man who first popularised the term.
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http://www.ipods-and-onlinevideo-reviews.com/web_2_0_news_page_39.htm.
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Chip Tarver
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