Protos

Intresting point made by one of the grand old men of blogging.

To me, Web 2.0 is about trying to get right those layers of the stack that we weren’t able to get right the last time around.

One of the central themes of Web 2.0 is the ability for users to control their own data and the ability for people to share and remix. In this context, many, if not most good Web 2.0 services allow users to download, link and reuse all if not a substantial part of the content they work on.

via: joi.ito.com

I think that hits one of the new web2 paradigms right on. Don’t lock users in by holding their data captive – allow them to export, and keep offering a service that is so good that they don’t want to do it.

Still I also find youtube.com to be web 2 – even thoght it does not offer a one zip file download of the users content.