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Trends in Web 2.0

Textually Inconsistent: Mary McCarthy on how there are too many conversations going on at once. Wisenheimers, scary people, and debate-team captains: A taxonomy of commenting communities. Web haves and have-nots: Here’s why the Internet is becoming increasingly Balkanized. MyBrain.net: Geert Lovink on the colonization of real-time and other trends in Web 2.0. An excerpt from of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. The fundamental limits of privacy for social networks: Using social networks to make recommendations will always compromise privacy, according to a mathematical proof of the limits of privacy (and more by Danah Boyd). Does privacy on Facebook, Google, and Twitter even matter? Farhad Manjoo discovers the problem with Web privacy — and it's us. Facebook’s gone rogue; it’s time for an open alternative. An excerpt form The Facebook Effect: the Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick (and more and more and more). Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Forest Casey on the life cycle of Twitter. Twitter is the future of news: The micro-blogging service is remarkably effective at spreading "important" information. Ning's fix for the Web 2.0 profit problem: Is the "free economy" starting to melt down? In effort to boost reliability, Wikipedia looks to experts. Wikipedia's war on porn: Does founder Jimmy Wales' crusade to purge Wikipedia of sexually explicit images go too far — or not far enough? Chatroulette is filled with men showing off their genitalia; Shannon Donnelly talks to flashers about what they're getting out of it. Julia Ioffe on Andrey Ternovskiy, the teen-ager behind Chatroulette. As YouTube celebrates its fifth anniversary, Wired goes behind the scenes of the site that launched a million memes.