"Most recently, O'Reilly's dead-on inner compass led him to anticipate the current stage of the Internet. Powered by the bottom-up nature of sharing and collective action, it's exemplified by such developments as the barn-raising methodology of Wikipedia; group efforts like tagging; open source systems; Wi-Fi; open API's in ecommerce sites like Amazon, eBay, and Google; RSS; the spontaneous connectivity of Apple's Rendezvous; and dozens- of other dots that are being- connected to fulfill the original promise of the Net. He calls it the architecture of participation. In O'Reilly's world, sharing increases value - so much so that it becomes unthinkable to close off information or to adopt nonstandard proprietary systems. The result is a virtuous cycle where openness becomes the norm, encouraging even more participation." (Wired 13.10: The Trend Spotter)
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