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Bubble 2.0: Newsweek Looks at Start-Ups Most Likely to 'Rock' The 'Net

Brad Stone and Steven Levy write in Newsweek:

Deciphering the exact meaning of the phrase Web 2.0 is a popular parlor game in Silicon Valley. The expression can stand for many things—the kind of start-up that forges new connections among Web users, lets them share their tastes in music and video or simply exploits their creativity and participation in new ways.

In the broadest sense, the Web 2.0 moniker captures the renewed exuberance (perhaps irrational) in high-tech circles. There are so many start-ups, in fact, that inventive observers of the newly crowded business scene have taken to mashing all their logos together in one colorful and jumbled image, then posting their work to Flickr for others to appreciate (to see some examples, Google "logo 2.0"). So consider these standout firms below, which we've noticed in the past few months, some threads from the larger quilt.

posted by Fergie @ 3/29/2006 11:05:00 AM