Web 2.0 has been a buzz phrase that a lot of folks have been using to describe these kinds of services. Does Web 2.0 need the heft of Microsoft to bring it to the masses?
Web 2.0 needs to have a platform, it needs to have a business model. For Web 2.0 to really accelerate, there needs to be easy programmability. There need to be some concepts that allow you to reach something that requires large services that reach hundreds of millions of people. If we expose a platform to those customers in the same way that Windows exposed a platform for hundreds of millions of customers, that is a sheer opportunity for third parties. Web 2.0 does need an accelerator. It’s something some of your rivals in this space can’t offer to the same degree that you can. That’s true. Google has some great assets. They certainly built a very powerful asset with their advertising back-end and their search product. But that’s not a set of developer tools. It’s not an audience. It’s a lot of folks who go out and use that service, but it’s not highly personalized today. We have actually done a bunch of work in building that kind of relationship with customers, where those customers e
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