I have found it useful to step back from each contribution and ask three questions to test the value of the contribution:・Does it really make clear what is different about Web 2.0? ・Does it tell us why we should care? ・Does it make assu…

All businesses had better figure out what it means to engage in “distributed, collaborative and cumulative creation” and adjust their business models and capabilities accordingly.

I spend most of my time dealing with business execs who view technology as an enabler - their natural (and not unreasonable question) is: so what does this enable?

Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the m…

Stories and examples work far better in capturing the texture and richness of what is going on than abstract concepts. Trying to impose boundaries too early limits the imagination.

http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2005/10/web_20_redux.html