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Overview of business models for Web 2.0 communities

A new type of communities is gaining momentum on the web and is reshaping online communication and collaboration patterns and the way how information is consumed and produced [Gros04, Kolb06]. Examples of such communities are Wikipedia, MySpace, OpenBC, YouTube, Folksonomies, numerous Weblogs and others. In literature different terms can be found to denote the emerging and growing new phenomenon: social software [Bäch06] or peer production [Scho05]. In the year 2005, Tim O'Reilly popularized the term Web 2.0 [O'Reil05]. While the first two terms can be applied also to earlier, already established forms of online communities (for an overview see [Stan02]), the term Web 2.0 is mostly applied to emphasize the differences of emerging communities compared to earlier forms of online communities, encompassing various perspectives - technology, attitude, philosophy. (...)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:bsz:14-qucosa-139690
Date11 April 2014
CreatorsHoegg, Roman, Martignoni, Robert, Meckel, Miriam, Stanoevska-Slabeva, Katarina
ContributorsTechnische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Informatik
PublisherSaechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceKlaus Meißner & Martin Engelien (Hrsg.), GeNeMe '06: Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien, TU Dresden, 28./29.09.2006, Dresden: TUDpress, ISBN: 3-938863-77-3, S. 33-49

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