What is Web 2.0?

Watch this video of the guy credited for coining the term ‘Web 2.0′:

“We’re moving…out of the world in which applications are driven by people typing on keyboards and much more into a world in which collective intelligence applications are going to be driven by the data exhaust of our devices”

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LA Times has a good article up on this guy. I like this part:

He is urging young entrepreneurs and engineers to stop making some of the sillier software that lets Facebook users throw virtual sheep at their friends or download virtual beer on iPhones, and instead start making a real difference in the world.

Collective Intelligence

Way overproduced but they touch on some good themes:

The collaborative workspace offered by new technologies is one theme that is pretty promising…and that’s a cool story about the gold company crowdsourcing.

Here is an with more info on what GoldCorp did.