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So what IS this Web 2.0 thing, anyways? Wired magazine offer a helpful guide.

Good old Wired is obviously feeling the dotcom sap rising once again, and is limbering up for a long hot summer to be spent vigorously fanning the fires of hype.

We’re not quite at that level of frenzy yet. In the meantime, Wired is — like the rest of the ubergeeks — getting all worked up about ‘Web 2.0′, and has put together a nicely zeitgesity primer on what Web 2.0 means, how it works, and why it matters. Cut and paste some of this — indeed any of this — into your next PowerPoint prez, add in a couple of cutesy screengrabs of Flickr and your clients will just know you’re the right ones to win that account! You know it’s true!

Hell yes. If only Wired would resurrect Suck.Com then we’d know the Spirit of ‘97 was truly back and walking amongst us. Give it time. Give it time.

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