MySpace and YouTube: Web 2.0 for Ordinary People

Paul Boutin makes a compelling case that YouTube and MySpace show what it takes to bring Web 2.0 to ordinary people: “The secret to success is to make everything one-button easy, then get out of the way.” He makes a few overblown points, claiming for example that Flickr has plateaued at a level not much higher than Slate (completely missing the logarithmic nature of the Alexa graphs on which he makes that assertion.) But his overall thesis is strong.

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