web 2.0 trinity

artigo do blog do Dion Hinchcliffe falando sobre a importância do usuário no cenário 2.0. Apresenta inclusive uma hierarquia de valor em que, como não poderia deixar de ser, o usuário se encontra no topo.

Por falar em usuário ... por que Y! adquiriu flickr?

"With less than 10 people on the payroll, they had millions of users generating content, millions of users organizing that content for them, tens of thousands of users distributing that across the Internet, and thousands of people not on the payroll actually building the thing," says Yahoo exec Bradley Horowitz. "That's a neat trick. If we could do that same thing with Yahoo, and take our half-billion user base and achieve the same kind of effect, we knew we were on to something."