Tim O’Reilly handles it well

By Craig | Published: May 31, 2006

If anything, this ‘global’ blog-conversation concerning the term ‘web2.0′ is an excellent (and ironic) case-study of the power of the ‘real-time-web’ (or Web2.0). Read on…

Tim O’Reilly handles it well — almost » mathewingram.com/work

I hope Tim O’Reilly’s houseboating trip on Lake Powell was relaxing, because he came back to a boatload of stress as a result of his company’s association with a “cease and desist” letter that CMP Media sent to a (non-profit) IT group in Ireland for using the term Web 2.0 in relation to a conference. There’s more on the history of it all here if you’re interested. Tim has now posted a long dissertation on what happened and what he thinks of both the Web 2.0 trademark (which wasn’t his idea) and the blogosphere’s “pile-on” response.

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