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Define: Web 2.0?

Read about "Hype Cycles" if you are not already familiar with them: http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp

As i see it, the dot com bust (or web 1.0) was just the natural "trough of disillusionment" for the hype cycle of the Interweb.

Web 2.0 is just the "slope of enlightenment" for the aforementioned Interweb (now known as the Intertubes)

M.



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