This from Dion Hinchcliffe expains a lot if you're looking to understand the spirit of Web 2.0:
2.63 new mashups a day. That's what John Musser's terrific new Mashup Feed site says is current the creation rate. If that rate flattens out today, which isn't likely, that's over 960 new mashups every year. Mashups, composite web applications partially constructed from the services and content from other web sites, are taking off with an amazing speed. Yet they are a relatively new phenomenon in terms of being this widespread and pervasive. All this even though mashups, like blogs and wikis, were actually possible from the creation date of the first forms-capable browser. So why the sudden widespread interest?
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