At ZDNet, an interesting exploration of the issues of the kinds of value created by some of the leading Web 2.0 applications / web services.

Read the whole article here.

YouTube, Digg, Wikipedia: Can Web 2.0 play hardball?
Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 12:50 pm


Tim O'Reilly says, in his 2005 treatise “What is Web 2.0?”:

The architecture of the Internet, and the World Wide Web, as well as of open source software projects like Linux, Apache, and Perl, is such that users pursuing their own 'selfish' interests build collective value as an automatic byproduct.

Web 2.0 users, and others in the Web 2.0 community, seem to be pursuing their own “selfish” interests more and more.

The end product sought, however, aims for individual value, or corporate value, rather than for "collective value."



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