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Web to work—its technologies, its business models, and perhaps most importantly, its philosophies of openness, collective intelligence, and transparency.
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Last year we focused on where the Web met the world. This year, the Web is the world.
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how the world is putting the Web to work to make business more efficient, culture more vibrant, and society more tolerant.
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Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On: Web 2.0 Summit 2009 - Co-produced by TechWeb & O'Re... - 0 views

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Chief among our insights was that "the network as platform" means far more than just offering old applications via the network ("software as a service"); it means building applications that literally get better the more people use them, harnessing network effects not only to acquire users, but also to learn from them and build on their contributions.
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building applications that literally get better the more people use them
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Data is the "Intel Inside" of the next generation of computer applications.
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ata is being collected, presented, and acted upon in real time. The scale of participation has increased by orders of magnitude.
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lifestream
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All of a sudden, we’re not using search via a keyboard and a stilted search grammar, we’re talking to and with the Web. It’s getting smart enough to understand some things (such as where we are) without us having to tell it explicitly. And that’s just the beginning.
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But it’s important to realize that machine learning techniques apply to far more than just sensor data.
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information shadows
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geotagging
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The smartphone revolution has moved the Web from our desks to our pockets. Collective intelligence applications are no longer being driven solely by humans typing on keyboards but, increasingly, by sensors.
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With more users and sensors feeding more applications and platforms, developers are able to tackle serious real-world problems.
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The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world – everything and everyone in the world casts an "information shadow," an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mind bending implications.
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It’s easy to forget that only 15 years ago, email was as fragmented as social networking is today, with hundreds of incompatible email systems joined by fragile and congested gateways. One of those systems – internet RFC 822 email – became the gold standard for interchange.
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They thus turn what at first appeared to be unstructured into structured data.
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