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Reading Thought Questions:


Web 2.0

Tim O'Reilly: What Is Web 2.0, September 2005.

Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On, October 2009.

Give several examples of the way Web 2.0 seems to be fullfilling the promise of the original goals of Tim Berner-Lee's World Wide Web?

How are these new technologies allowing everyone to be participants, rather than just publishers or viewers?