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Friday, September 26, 2008

Web 2.0 - is it truly global?

The next generation of internet applications is discussed widely - in friends networks, in business networks, for enterprises - but this collaboration does not seem to be truly global...
Wikipedia is mainly English speaking, other networks also are mainly in English and otherwise country-specific...so where are the good examples of truly global networks and maybe even collaborative networks? Which are the aspects which make a global web 2.0 environment successful - still looking for good practises and samples!!!

2 comments:

Helena said...
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Helena said...

I don't think that the fact, that many Web 2.0 applications are in English is a sign that they are not global. Naturally, when people from different countries communicate, they need a common language. It so happens, that they usually use English. Many blogs are in English, but the communities participating are international. Social networks like Facebook have participants from around the world. Delicious or CiteULike are also in English, but you can see on the tags, that they are global.