Systems

Web 2.0

Lorcan 1 min read

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Tim O’Reilly presents a Web 2.0 ‘MemeMap’, the result of some brainstorming at a recent event. This places some familiar concepts (services, not packaged software; remixable data source and data transformations; data as the ‘Intel inside’) in useful frame.
My eye was drawn to ‘harnessing collective intelligence’, as it echoed a phrase that I have been using here of late. How, in the current environment do we better mobilize the collective capacity of libraries to deliver value.
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