Payday for the free internet

Yesterday Becky Hogge, the Technology Director and Technology Commissioning Editor of OpenDemocracy wrote this article about OpenBusiness:

Hire a management consultant these days and, regardless of what industry you happen to be in, it won’t be long before they start talking Web 2.0 at you. It’s at moments like these that technologists wince and look away. Once your CEO starts airing about the office, flashing special editions of the Financial Times under your nose and asking if you use del.icio.us, you know the romance of a new web trend is dead.

Web 2.0 – which translates out of geek speak into “an improved version of the World Wide Web” – is a term that’s been knocking about the coffee houses of San Francisco for a few years now. In 2004 it was hijacked by online publishing guru Tim O’Reilly, after a brainstorming session with him and his buddies grew into an annual conference of the geeky and the good on the future of the web.

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