Web 2.0 Quotes

• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Usa, People, Net Neutrality

  "Net Neutrality: This is Serious". www.mediamatters.org. June 2006.

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• Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Moving, Revolution, Computer

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• Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Internet, Company

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• People would publish their websites; other people would read them. But there was no real back and forth other than through e-mail. Web 2.0 was what they called the collaborative web - Facebook, Twitter, the social media.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Media, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia.

  George Ritzer

  Wikipedia, Facts, Produce

  George Ritzer (2010). “Globalization: A Basic Text”, p.290, John Wiley & Sons

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• There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

  John Doerr

  Thinking, Identity, Trends

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• Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.

  Keith Teare

  Mobile, Knows

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• Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, Ideas, Profound

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• By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Mean, Hands, Economic Value

  "Web 2.0lier than thou" by Nicholas G. Carr, www.roughtype.com. October 23, 2006.

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• The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr.com. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.

  Jared Spool

  Children, Keys, Pieces

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• Incantations for Muggles:
  The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life.

  danah boyd

  Technology, Everyday, Roles

  "Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life". danah boyd's Keynote address at O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California, www.danah.org. March 28, 2007.

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• When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only.

  Edward Snowden

  Mean, People, World

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

  Lev Grossman

  People, Together, Different

  "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year" by Lev Grossman, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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