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A new buzz word. On openDemocracy, Becky Hogge explains what “Web 2.0″ is all about. It’s basically all the neat new and old collaborative tools I like to rave about in this blog. It’s when content is created and managed by users and the owners still make a buck; like on Flickr, del.icio.us, and MySpace. Here’s a world map of of Web 2.0 innovation. Christian Alhert from Creative Commons in the UK is behind a new project called open business which is working to create best practices for this new model of operation. You give things away free in order to make money. No wonder people have a hard time understanding it. So do your research before you start charging people money to do simple things on the internet. It’s not hip anymore. Some would say it never was. In 2003 oD published a nice article on the “gift economy” of the net (scroll down to last two sections of article) by Richard Barbrook.