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Empowered Users, Powered by Users

Created: 05 Oct 2005
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Acquisitions like this signal the increasing inertia towards consolidation in the "Web 2.0 space" -- for lack of a better term. Upcoming.org is an example of the trend toward participatory software. Back in the day, when software was king, we talked a lot about "empowering users".  Now, successful companies don't just empower users, they are powered by users.

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