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Title: Key Web 2.0 sites

Author: Fost, Dan Article Type: Product Analysis
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, pF4(2) Publication Date: Nov 5, 2006
URL of Publication: http://www.sfgate.com

Some websites can be characterized as representing the nature of Web 2.0 These include Blogger, a site owned by Google Inc. This site makes it easy for people to start and maintain a blog. Digg is a company that offers a way to suggest stories for votes of a wider readership. The reading community decides which stories are most important. Dodgeball is a service the allows people to alert their friends about their location via cell phone messages. Flickr lets users post photographs online and share them easily with other users. MySpace, one of the most popular online community sites, involves social networking. It lets users create profiles and share interests. It has been the subject of some controversy as a result of its utilization by child predators seeking victims. StumbleUpon offers a button that is downloaded to an Internet browser. Users then surf the Internet, and when they click the button, they are taken to a website that matches an area of their interest and that was rated positively by other people who came upon it during surfing. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that lets its users write and edit most of the content. It is a project of Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit group. Yelp is a website that was created by former employees of PayPal. It lets users rate shops, restaurants, and other things. YouTube is a popular video-sharing website.

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