The New Wisdom of the Web
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Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of
start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this
time, it's all about ... you.
By Steven Levy and Brad Stone
Newsweek
April 3, 2006 issue - A little over two years ago, even the most
sensitive entrepreneurial radar could not pick out two pairs of people
on opposite ends of the West Coast starting companies that would make
plenty out of nothing. In Santa Monica, Calif., dot-com survivors Chris
DeWolfe and Tom Anderson were hatching the idea of taking on biggies
like AOL and Yahoo with a Web site consisting only of stuff that people
would bring to it. And up in Vancouver, B.C., married collaborators
Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake were just figuring out that the
online game they were developing might work better as a way for people
to share their digital photos with each other.
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