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Many folks think Web 2.0 is the Social Web, and there’s been a lot of discussion about what we are currently living in. It’s a misnomer to say this is the *social web* as I’d argue right now the web enables me to do social transactions but it’s not a social web. I can leave comments, IM, chat etc… but I do this in a solitary manner. There isn’t someone sitting next to me as I’m IMing… in fact I get bothered when someone is looking over my shoulder.

One nite at a BBQ, we were all huddled around someone’s computer watching the Asian Backstreet Boys on YouTube, when the host said, “hold on”, and hooked the laptop to the television, and for me at that moment the computer became the social web, not just a tool for social transactions. Perhaps webtv will make a come back

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