When collaboration fails

When I started researching this topic, one of the sites that impressed me was CoMagz-​​​​Linkadelic Magazine. This seemed like a great example of pub­lishing the Web 2.0 way. Users write stories and submit them. Others vote for the stories that appear. The best ones appear on the front page. A bit like digg, I suppose, but where the

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Video stars

Video sharing site YouTube seems unstop­pable in the current climate. Pete Cashmore reports that the site is deliv­ering up to one million videos a day.

Sceptics have pointed at the YouTube business model, with their lack of advert­ising, as a prime example of the lack of solid business planning among Web 2.0 startups. How, they wonder,

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Hacks and combinators

I have been lucky enough to inter­view Paul Graham, partner at venture firm Y Combinator and author of Hackers and Painters, about Web 2.0 and some of the business issues it has provoked. Paul has an inter­esting take on who is going to be powerful in coming years: “A hacker with design sense is

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Cave 2.0

Marc Fawzi makes an inter­esting point about web 2.0 society

Fact: trusted indi­viduals are once again the source of news in a society (bloggers) Fact: word of mouth is once again how news spreads (viral mar­keting) Fact: people once again hunt and gather in a group (del.icio.us) Fact: people once again group things using words like

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