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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. Re: open source and web rush 2.0 by sbenitezb · · Score: 0, Troll

    Webmail sucks. Why don't we use KMail in a KDE desktop using NX tech. to connect to our home PC? IPv6 provides easily always-connected devices. There will be no need to have a mail service, just roll your own mail service with your own domain.

  2. Re:User generated content = quality? by CausticLye · · Score: 0, Troll
    Your sat on a site with user generated content and asking yourself if its worth it?

    No, I'm asking what the hell your first 5 words mean. Is this completely garbled typing, a kind of slang that hasn't trickled down to my demographic, or a language other than English that just happens to use English words?

    Of course its worth it - Spending time in a community of like minded people is always worth it.

    Ah yes, every circlejerk is a seminal experience in life.

    You have made 38 comments here (relative newbie), theres people with thousands of postings and reading loads of stories (myself included) and spending time here because this feels better than sitting bored watching tv - its interactive.

    Gives you that warm-in-the-pants feeling, does it?

    This post is rated interesting ???? Clearly, I'm in the wrong place.