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Who exactly started Web 2.0?  I know that O’Reilly takes credit for it.  Here’s the direct qupte from their website

The concept of “Web 2.0″ began with a conference brainstorming session between O’Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O’Reilly VP, noted that far from having “crashed”, the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. 

But perhaps it was back when Napster was just becoming popular throughout the college community.   I was a sophomore at Loyola College and fondly remember my WinAmp collection of pirated wonderful music. If your definition of Web 2.0 is user centric, what could be more user centric than using the Internet to exchange music with people anywhere in the world.  That was back in 2001, and slowly but surely the Internet’s bumpy ride has taken us into a new era of the Internet–one where you have online bookmarks, files and applications and where anyone can give their opinion on their “blog.”

If you’ve heard the term Web 2.0 you’ve probably also heard all the conjecture about what is and isn’t Web 2.0. Our interpretation is that Web 2.0 defines a new phase of a user centric web with innovation in native web applications. Regardless of terminology there is a definite shift in the innovations that are taking place on the web. This shift is taking the web: * From content centric to user centric models… * From the web as a virtual space for storing information to the web as a platform for services… * From program based innovation to web based innovation.

-Websites: The Next Generation Resources

1. O’Reilly — What Is Web 2.0
2. Web 2.0 Conference - November 7-9, 2006 - San Francisco, CA
3. Web 2.0 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4. O’Reilly Radar: Web 2.0 Report– $375!
5. SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards

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