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The Web 2.0 Trinity: People, Data, and Great Software
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03/26/2006, By Dion Hinchcliffe
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This highlights an interesting trend, still somewhat obscured, that is taking place with the adoption of a lot of the new types of online software, which many of us call Web 2.0. Specifically, that software itself is now becoming a distinctly third tier citizen to the software experience. And unfortunately, a lot of very competent code slingers have been and will remain distinctly uncomfortable with this.
After all, isn't it software that makes all this Web stuff possible? Yes, and software is still critically important. I'm just saying that there are two even more important things to the software experience. One of them has always been the case, that the user is the center and most valuable part of the "construct", this thing we call the Web. And network effects are only magnifying this exponentially, making something too frequently ignored into something almost completely unescapable. I'm fonding of citing the fact that there are now 1 billion users of the Web, and combined with Metcalfe's Law, it's putting the value of the user so much farther ahead of everything else in the equation.
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