What’s your definition of a Web 2.0 company?

An interesting question posed by Dave Forde on his blog recently. There doesn’t appear to be a definitive answer, which I suspect has a lot to do with the perspective you approach Web 2.0 from. Dave’s looking for your thoughts which he’ll compile and see if there is a consensus.

For my part, I’ve been using this as my working definition:

A Web 2.0 company provides unique and intuitive web-based services designed to enable and empower consumers to create, interact, share, collaborate, or build communities.

Of course, then there’s always the font. ;)

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Comments (1) to “What’s your definition of a Web 2.0 company?”

  1. [...] Tamera at 3i points me to Dave Forde’s post trying to synthesize a working definition of a Web 2.0 company. I have mentioned before that I get a different defintion from everyone I ask, but realized that I hadn’t given one of my own. In the interests of not re-wording what others have ably articulated I will offer the following defintion in the hopes that David will include this: [...]

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