Who Owns Web2.0?

11 08 2007

The answer to ‘who owns web2.0?’ should probably be ‘everyone who uses it’, but a recent post by Amy Webb uses a very simple but important image to remind us all that convergence isn’t just a technical or cultural term, it’s an industrial gameplan for everyone from Google and Yahoo to Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp:

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As we use more and more of these tools in education, it’s worth pausing a moment and thinking how these web2.0 tools and platforms are licensed and who owns students’ data (and who owns your data, too).

[Cross-posted from Tama Leaver dot Net]

[Via Steve Rubel & Amy Gahran]

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Date : 11 August 2007
Categories : eLearning

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3 responses to “Who Owns Web2.0?”

12 08 2007: links for 2007-08-11 at contentious.com (03:23:04) :

[...] Tama’s eLearning Blog » Who Owns Web2.0? “As we use more and more of these tools in education, it’s worth pausing a moment and thinking how these web2.0 tools and platforms are licensed and who owns students’ data (and who owns your data, too) (tags: mycoverage web2.0 content-rights business media+evolution education) [...]
12 08 2007: James (18:02:38) :

Nobody owns us
12 08 2007: Tama (18:05:39) :

James, I imagine that’s part of the reason why so many of us are here!