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“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.”

“When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.”

People Ends Asks Millions Worried Usa Permission Net Neutrality Web 2.0

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.”

Mean Hands Values Economic Products Mass Labor Productions Mechanism Efficient Ownership Harvest Withholding Economic Value Web 2.0

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia.”

Facts Produce Materials Producers Consumers Interaction Users Entry Wikipedia Web 2.0

Book:Globalization: A Basic Text

Source: Globalization: A Basic Text

“Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.”

Moving Revolution Industry Internet Computer Platforms Web 2.0

Author:Tim O'Reilly

“Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.”

Knows Mobile Web 2.0

Author:Keith Teare

“Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.”

People Company Internet Web 2.0

Author:Jeff Bezos

“Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.”

Thinking Humans Ideas Human Nature Profound Pessimism Consistently Rhetoric Cheerful Web 2.0

Author:Jaron Lanier

“When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only.”

People World Way Firsts Mean Internet Wide One Way World Wide Web Web 2.0

Author:Edward Snowden

“People would publish their websites; other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail. Web 2.0 was what they called the collaborative web - Facebook, Twitter, the social media.”

People Real Social Media Social Media Mail Publish Website Back And Forth Web 2.0

Author:Edward Snowden

“Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life.”

Roles Technology Everyday Everyday Life Muggles Web 2.0

Author:danah boyd

“The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.”

People Ifs Different Matter Together Millions Revolution Internet Tools Versions Contribution Different Things Valleys Software Silicon Silicon Valley Consultants Web 2.0

Author:Lev Grossman

“The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr.com. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.”

Children Pieces Keys Internet Posters Flickr Personalization Web 2.0

Author:Jared Spool

“There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.”

Thinking Next Identity Offers Trends Users Persona Web 2.0

Author:John Doerr