Web 2.0
[from the FT’s blog on Davos]
a0ed-0000779e2340,dwp_uuid=3D7f2c1e2a-91c0-11db-a945-0000779e2340.html> Future shock Wikipedia is one of those companies most closely identified with web = 2.0, the phenomenon nicely identified by one speaker in a session on = the subject as =93taking advantage of smart people somewhere whose = names you don=92t know and who you don=92t have to pay to do it.=94 But the online encyclopaedia is less eager than the Davos panellists = to discuss what will comes after the second flowering of the = internet. John Markoff, Stanford lecturer and New York Times = columnist pointed out that the term =93web3.0=94 has been banned in = perpetuity by the Wikipedia community. Sure enough, a check reveals that the Wikipedia page on the subject = has been =93deleted, and protected to prevent re-creation.=94 In other = words, we=92ve seen the future but won=92t let you.
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson