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It's here to stay, whatever it is
It's not easy to define, but phenomenon is real

10/9/2006 | CoverageCoverage

Constance Loizos, The Mercury News, Business

'"Still trying to figure out exactly what Web 2.0 means? You're in good company.

For a report published last week by the Pew Internet Project titled ``Riding the Waves of Web 2.0: More Than a Buzzword But Not Easily Defined,'' researchers spent two years trying to come up with an unassailable definition of Web 2.0.

They couldn't do it.

Said the report's co-author Mary Madden, a senior research specialist at the Washington, D.C.-based organization that conducts public opinion polling and social science research, ``I think people continue to refine what Web 2.0 means. It's also challenging to describe a new era while we're living through it.''


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