Tim O'Reilly opened today the first session of the reports on
Web 2.0 Expo with a description of the philosophy of Web 2.0: part of a big car, ”says O'Reilly.

“O'Reilly hardly meant chips implanted in the brain or the“ Matrix ”scenarios,” Dan Farber says in
his blog . In any case, for the time being this is not being discussed. Rather, he meant such things as World of Warcraft, Digg, Facebook and other future services. We are talking about the interaction and the man-machine interface. On systems with increasingly complex algorithms and on users who add tags, ratings and other data to the general data pool in order to obtain more complete information, more efficient business models, and detailed hierarchies as a result. This is Web data, built from new levels of input to resources leading to the semantic network, but also fraught with serious problems, such as
who owns this data . As with most human friction, property becomes a matter of dispute ...