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October 24, 2005

The New Visionaries: Rebooting The Web

Posted by Stowe Boyd

Over the past months, I have been in contact with a growing roster of really amazing visionaries, those that are making Web 2.0 a reality. People like Catarina Fake and Stuart Butterfield of Flickr, Dave Sifry of Technorati, Jason Fried of 37Signals, and Felix Petersen of Plazes.com, to mention just a few.

I am launching a new project, one that will open up the interactions I have been having with these people, and allow me to also return to video, a format I haven't used very much since the late '90s. Starting this week, I am starting the production of "New Visionaries: Rebooting The Web" where I will be conducting interviews with people who are advancing what people are calling web 2.0.

I like the image of rebooting the web: not just adding a teensy bit more to it, but messing with its internals so seriously that you have to restart the machine to use the new stuff. Steven Johnson recently used a similar sort of analogy in characterizing this web 2.0 shift:

[from Web 2.0 Arrives, pointer from 106 Miles to Chicago]
The result is the equivalent of a massive software upgrade for the entire Web, what some commentators have taken to calling Web 2.0. Essentially, the Web is shifting from an international library of interlinked pages to an information ecosystem, where data circulate like nutrients in a rain forest.

Yes, a dense, rich, and interconnected collection of newly tooled applications, that build on what others offer and give back to the system, allowing others to build on them in turn.

Who are these visionaries? What do they share in common? What is driving them? Where is it heading? Can the big companies -- like Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft -- channel whatever these forces are, or will they simply keep on snapping up smaller, more innovative web 2.0 companies as they emerge? What are the business models? Who will be the winners in this newly recast race, and what does winning mean?

[tags: web+2.0, new visionaries, Dave Sifry, Felix Petersen, Plazes.com, Stuart Butterfield, Flickr, Catarina Fake, Jason Fried, 37signals del.icio.us, Joshua Schachter, Steven Johnson]

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