Web 2.0 Trademarked
O’Reilly and CMP have deposed a trademark on Web 2.0 (only for industry events). And are suing competitors who use it. Does it seem right to you?
They advocated this term and now they protect it. As a consumer, I could think they want more to earn money than help the world/technosphere evolve.
Something seems terribly wrong.
(source David Babylon)
This action is the beginning of their end. When trying to get out too much money out of something might kill the idea (see macro-economy theory). Next step: sue web 2.0 company?
Anyway, I didn’t even like Web 2.0. I propose to use a new common name. Any idea?
Via Slashdot.
Update of May 27 2006
O’Reilly have obviously realised they may have made a mistake. It is still not enough.
Update of May 31
An interesting response from Tim O’Reilly
May 26th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
I quite like “Social Media”. Not mine, but I heard it somewhere and thought it summed it up just fine.