Web 2.0 Depends on Gentle Giants

Glad to see this articulated. All the mash-ups and mix-ups of data and media and information depend on very loose and fluid alliances between indie devs and the larger media/web companies:

But beneath all the kumbayas, there’s an awkward dance going on, an unregulated give-and-take of information for which the rules are still being worked out. And in many cases, some of the big guys that have been the source of that data are finding they can’t — or simply don’t want to — allow everyone to access their information, Web2.0 dogma be damned. The result: a generation of businesses that depend upon the continued good graces of a relatively small group of Internet powerhouses that philosophically agree information should be free — until suddenly it isn’t.


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