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As Web 2.0 is now a global phenomenon, its powerful concepts find their applications everywhere around the world. What primarily started as a trend among U.S. startups quickly spread to other continents where entrepreneurs recognized the potentials and were quicker than their role models to localize and launch similar companies.
Whether you agree or disagree with this trend, it certainly can't be ignored. So what are the lessons and what does localization mean in Web 2.0 terms? How do Web 2.0 applications differ internationally and where is there innovation?
Using an extensive series of examples, this talk will cover what European, Asian and American companies have learned, invented and adjusted when making Web 2.0 a global/local phenomenon.
I agree that there should no software patents. And I also think that copying sites in China is not that bad. For example the U.S. based services in general don't launch their products simultaneously all over the world. The chinese people need applications like facebook too, so they create their own. And if U.S. based companies won't invest to have the chinese version from the beginning, then it is their fault anyway.
Mart Randala