What's especially interesting to me is that it really hasn't changed much. In 2001, he co-wrote an article that talked about the importance of supporting and leveraging the interaction around transactions - collaboration. Specifically about online communities, "...online communities are not quickly built, and require care and feeding to thrive." He points out that many died on the wire - no pun intended. He also says, "...the lessons were not in whether "online communities" were good ideas, but rather in how they were implemented.
Sebastian Weber on 28 Feb 08collaboration was already a subject before the term web 2.0 was coined