You Make Web 2.0 What It Is
Time Magazine made YOU the person of the year in 2006. You lives in a world called Web 2.0. You pushes the social engine of the internet market. You blogs; You uses sites like MySpace; and You actively produces the content that exists on the World Wide Web.
The problem with the concept is that the world of Web 2.0 isn’t all that idyllic. Web 2.0 is more controlled by the corporations like Google and Yahoo than many people care to think about it. It is these search engines that determine how information gets out to the world. It is these corporations that create and monitor and profit from the social websites that are being used by some many of the people that Time was looking to credit for the development and expansion of Web 2.0.
The concept of ordinary people doing all the writing, researching, talking, and thinking is a good idea - but it may stop at that stage. The argument that some have against the utopian world of Web 2.0 is that the information is no longer reliable.
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