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The essence of web 2.0

Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller

24 Apr 2006

The principles of web 2.0 make more sense if you change the order:

"Harnessing Collective Intelligence" is the root principle of Web 2.0, and the others make sense to the extent that you understand how they feed into (and draw from) this one.

Or, to put it another way, and I apologise for sounding like a broken record, the Internet is people.

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