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The New Wisdom of the Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-think-about dept.

theodp writes "In a cover story, Newsweek takes a look at the new wave of start-ups cashing in on the next stage of the Internet by Putting The 'We' in Web. Sites built on user-generated content like YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, Digg and Facebook have all taken a page from Tom Sawyer's playbook, engaging the community to do their work, prompting Google CEO Eric Schmidt to suggest he finds MySpace more interesting than Microsoft."

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  1. YouTube is based on copyright infringement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    go look at the videos and you will see a majority of them are copyrighted content (tv shows/clips and the like) and they have the excuse "it wasnt us it was one of our visitors

    how they havent been shutdown is anyones guess, i guess the latest wave of sites is more based on copyright be dammned than user-based-content