Web 2.0 evolves

So Time magazine voted "You" as person of the year:

The article

The gist of the article and award being that social networking is beginning to shape social history. Here's an extract
"The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution."

Interestingly, I think, Time Person of the Year has included :

"Previous winners have often sparked controversy - including Adolf Hitler in 1938 and, in 1979, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini."


It supports all we are being told by such people as Chris Anderson in his book "The Long Tail" which he orignally supposed in his Wired article in October 2004.