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by uggedal 6111 days ago
It was coined by a dude trying to sell more conference tickets.
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fallentimes 6111 days ago
The guy sells books and conference tickets :).
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uggedal 6111 days ago
"Web 2.0" was coined when it was given as a name to a conference.
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fallentimes 6111 days ago
Yeah but the whole O'Reilly empire sells books, conferences, webinars, etc. all bearing the Web 2.0 scarlet letter:

http://search.oreilly.com/?q=web+2.0&submit.x=0&subm...

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